History by Country 2

Match the event to the modern country where it happened.
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Last updated: June 7, 2014
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The Klondike Gold Rush begins
USA
Vlad the Impaler goes to war with the Ottoman Empire
Romania
Pol Pot commits genocide against his own people
Cambodia
The Battle of Actium
Greece
Mehmet the Conqueror takes the greatest city of his career
Turkey
Temujin is born
Mongolia
Timur the Lame or Tamerlane becomes king
Uzbekistan
Captain Cook enters Botany Bay
Australia
The Battle of Hastings
UK
Vikings become the first known Europeans to establish a settlement in the New World
Canada
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Francisco Pizarro topples the Inca Empire
Peru
Magellan dies
Philippines
Roman general Pompey the Great is murdered
Egypt
Nelson Mandela ends the apartheid regime
South Africa
The Jacobins come to power and begin the "Reign of Terror"
France
The Battle of Cannae
Italy
Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated beginning World War 1
Bosnia
Charles Darwin visits the Galapagos Islands inpiring him to write The Origin of Species
Ecuador
Alexander the Great wins The Battle of Gaugemela
Iraq
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid die in a firefight
Bolivia
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Level 67
Jun 5, 2014
Misspelled: Timogen or Temujin (either is fine), Philippines
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Level 25
Jun 5, 2014
Fixed it. Thanks
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Level 67
Jun 6, 2014
I don't think you fixed Philippines.
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Level 25
Jun 7, 2014
Fixed Philippines as well
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Level 69
Jun 10, 2015
The Klondike is in Canada, always was. Not USA.