Weekly History Quiz No.233

People from Ancient Egypt traded with Punt from 6000 BCE, buying gold, perfume, blackwood, ebony, ivory, and wild animals.

The Battle of Megiddo was fought between Egyptians under Pharaoh Thutmose III and a coalition led by the king of Kadesh in 1457 BCE.

The Battle of Thermopylae was fought in 480 BCE.

The Battle of Cannae was fought in 216 BCE.

The Battle of Agincourt was fought in 1415.

Also known as 'The National Razor', 'The Patriotic Shortener' and 'The Goncourt Prize for Murderers', it was in use in France from 1792 to 1977. It also saw much use by other European countries. Nazi Germany in particular made significant use of the 'Köpfmaschine', using it to execute 16,500 prisoners.

Rising to power when they overthrew the Umayyad Caliphate in 750, the Abbasids' age ended in 1258 with the sack of Baghdad by the Mongols under Hulagu Khan.

Early Christian theologian Clement of Alexandria believed swine were inherently evil. 'The pig refers to pleasure-loving and unclean desire for food and lewd and defiled license in sex,' he declared. It is 'always itching for matte and lying in mud, fattening for slaughter and destruction'.

Gradually escalating tensions between the Communist superpowers came to a head with the 1960 Soviet Albanian split, where the Chinese Communist Party explicitly supporting the breakaway Albanians. From this point relations broke down completely.

Born in the town of Vinci, part of the Republic of Florence, Leonardo worked in Florence, Milan and Rome.

The oldest evidence of bread-making has been found in a 12,500 BCE Natufian culture site in Jordan.

Initially working as a model, Lee then trained in commercial photography. In 1942 she became a war correspondent for Vogue. She was present when Paris was liberated and recorded the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps.

A total of twelve astronauts have landed on the Moon, during six NASA missions. These began with Apollo 11 in July 1969, and ended with Apollo 17 in December 1972.