General History Quiz 208
1. When was ‘The Great Wave off Kanagawa’ created?
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1. When was ‘The Great Wave off Kanagawa’ created?
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Prehistoric men hunted; prehistoric women gathered. At least this is the standard narrative written by and about men to the exclusion of women. The idea of “Man the Hunter” runs deep within anthropology, convincing people that hunting made us human, only men did the hunting, and therefore evolutionary forces must only have acted upon men. Such depictions are found not only in media, but in museums and introductory anthropology textbooks, too.
1. Which was the most notorious UK rotten borough?
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1. Which colonial power did India eject from Goa in 1961?
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1. Which Royal court was known as the Sublime Porte?
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1. Who is known as the father of English history?
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Built by Amenhotep III and then used by his grandson Tutankhamen, the ruins of the city were an accidental discovery. In September last year, Hawass and his team were searching for a mortuary temple of Tutankhamen.
1. How long was the Inca Empire in existence?
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1. Writing in the 1380s, who was the first to refer to Valentines Day on the 14th of February?
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In the autumn of 2020, I was contacted by the field archaeology unit of the Swedish National Historical Museums, who are also known as the Archaeologists. They were excavating at a Viking-age settlement at Viggbyholm just north of Stockholm. During routine metal detecting of the site, they had located a very exciting find: eight silver necklaces and other silver jewellery along with 12 coins, everything delicately wrapped up in a cloth and deposited in a pot. In other words, a genuine Viking silver hoard.
1. The Battle of the Monitor and Merrimack was part of which conflict?
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Reading time: 6 minutes
For most of the human history of Australia, sea levels were much lower than they are today, and there was extra dry land where people lived. When people first arrived in Australia as early as 65,000 years ago, sea levels were around 80m lower than today.