Weekly History Quiz No.281

Built in the 1140s, this is one of the largest Crusader Castles.

This was part of a speech delivered on the steps of the Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery at the end of the march from Selma.

English arrived in Australia with the First Fleet in 1788, and observers began to comment on the uniformity of English from its early days. The comment above was from a visiting ship’s captain, James Dixon, who was pleased that Australian English wasn’t 'tainted' with regional accents.

Atlee took part in the earlier 1928 Simon commission, an all white group of men who decided that Burma should be separated from India. Several of the group had never previously been to the Indian subcontinent, and on occasion the group failed to engage with religious leaders, as the British wouldn't take off their shoes in order to enter temples.

The Berlin Conference set rules for European colonisation of Africa, leading to the "Scramble for Africa" and decades of exploitation and division.

Born around 1254 in Venice, he travelled through Asia along the Silk Road between 1271 and 1295. He met Emperor Kublai Kahn, and lived in the Emperor's lands for 17 years.

The treaty was highly favorable for the United States. This was an approach the British decided upon, in order to separate the US from her co-belligerents, France, Spain and the Dutch Republic, as well as to encourage trade with the newly formed USA.

The Punic wars against Carthage began in 264 BCE and continued until 146 BCE, when the Carthaginian empire was destroyed.

The Spartacus Revolt - 73 BCE

The assassination of Julius Caesar - 44 BCE

The Roman conquest of Britain - 43 CE

Depicting diplomats Georges de Selve and Jean de Dinteville, ambassador of Henry VIII’s great rival, Francis I of France. Both of these men were caught up in the growing diplomatic fracas caused by Henry VIII defying the pope by setting aside his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, to marry Anne Boleyn.

An icon of Russian culture, Soviet authorities hoped it would have a calming influence at times of crisis. After the death of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev in 1982, state television played a recording of the ballet on a loop. This was repeated with the deaths of Yuri Andropov in 1984 and Konstantin Chernenko in 1985, as well as the 1991 coup against Mikhail Gorbachev.