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History True or False #2
Try to guess whether these historical statements are true or false.
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1. A modern English-speaking person can more or less understand Old English
True
False
2. India was never colonized by a European power
True
False
3. The Soviet Union was the first country to launch a satellite into orbit
Sputnik 1 was launched in 1957, and orbited the planet for about three months
True
False
4. Henry Ford invented the automobile
Henry Ford invented neither the automobile or the assembly line. But he did make mass-produced cars a reality.
True
False
5. Russia has never been led by a woman
Four women ruled over tsarist Russia, the most famous being Catherine the Great.
True
False
6. Despite his reputation as a general, Napoleon actually lost more battles than he won
Napoleon was a brilliant commander who won the vast majority of his battles
True
False
7. Julius Caesar's given name (praenomen) wasn't really Julius
His first name was Gaius. Julius was his family name. Caesar was an inherited nickname, originally bestowed on one of his ancestors.
True
False
8. At one time, most of the Iberian peninsula was ruled by Muslims
True
False
9. The Battle of Marathon took place in ancient Greece
True
False
10. The Incans were a matriarchal society, with nearly all the important political decisions being made by women
Most anthropologists hold that there are no known societies which are unambiguously matriarchal.
True
False
11. As a young man, Adolf Hitler wanted to be an artist
True
False
12. More people died in WWII than in WWI
True
False
13. Abraham Lincoln was the first Republican to be elected President of the United States
True
False
14. Cape Town was originally founded by the French
It was founded by the Dutch in 1652
True
False
15. In Europe, in the Middle Ages, the majority of people worked on farms
True
False
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Generally speaking the british generally though quite highly of the french during the early modern and modern periods either as a powerful but respectable enemy or as a major ally.
As for why waterloo is more remembered than any of Napoleons other battles when most other generals are remembered for thier greatest victories.
One: many great generals are often remembered by thier biggest defeats, Romel and elAlamaine, Cornwallis and Yorktown, Xerxes and Darius and Marathon and Salamis, Leonidus and Themopoli, Richard I and the 3rd crusade.
Two most of the Napoleonic wars tend not to be taught at schools only the pivotal battles of trafalga and waterloo get any real focus which is farly common with History general knowledge, think of how many battles you would have studied for the hundred years war, usually just crecy and agincourt, mayby the siege of orleans
The fact that Nelson achieved victory with fewer ships than the enemy meant that the British Navy retained naval supremacy throughout the 18th century and everything else, good and bad, which followed.
If Wellington had lost at Waterloo, Napoleon would certainly have marched in Belgium, so no more waffles and we would have a differently named waterproof boot.
So really, it's the magnitude and consequence of the loss that retains the greatest after-image. That and history being written by the victors.
Napoleon and Wellington were pretty evenly matched, at about 70 000 men each - but Napoleon had more artillery by far. The decisive turning point of the battle was the early arrival of the Prussian army under Blücher, which turned the tide with its 50 000 men and 126 cannons. Right off the bat, if anything, it sounds more like an Anglo-Prussian victory. But then you have to take into account that basically all of Europe was allied against Naopleon! In fact, Wellington's forces were only about a third British (25 000 Brits, 17 000 Dutch soldiers, the rest mainly coming from various German states such as Hanover, Brunswick...).
Sounds more like a collective win to me!
What I'm saying is: be very careful with History when written by the British, especially when it's about the French!
For example, think of all those questions about European cities being at the same latitude of (surprising) American cities. The interesting fact is how far north those cities are, so asking a question where the answer is "Yes, just as you'd expect, warm Rome is further south than cold Minneapolis" is just not an interesting trivia question. Surprising someone with a counterintuitive answer is the point of questions like that.
So it's a clever question, because it runs counter to this meta-gaming of wondering why you're asking if one of the greatest generals in history lost more battles--because it's an interesting fact if true, and a boring fact if untrue.
Old English is a lot more different from modern English than Middle English is, but not incomprehensible imo. English is not even my language but I can decypher most of old texts (or at least after I have seen it written phonetically). I have an interest for it though, that helps. I love seeing the connection of words through different languages and see each word as a puzzle
Especially when the question is phrased "more or less". Personally I would be tempted to say yes. Now if it was phrased "perfectly completely easily"
This is a line of king Ælfred's version of Boethius "consoliatione philosophiae". I came across it while roaming around just now, falling deeper and deeper into the subject as one does (for some it is catvideo's though..) I found it rather fitting ;).
It means loosely translated; "You understand well enough what I am saying to you".More literal "You well enough understand what I speak to you"
And verbatim " You enough well understand what I you to speak"
Given that Old English has zero native speakers, people are probably going to be encountering it written down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH-_GwoO4xI
Old English is almost perfectly incomprehensible to the modern English speaker, although you might be able to pick out a word or two once in awhile.
The modern German related word is 'wofür', which literally means 'what for' or 'for what reason' - the long way round of say 'why' in modern English.
I appreciate the distinctions may be well known to linguists or those who study the changing nature of languages, but to pleb like me .........
At its essence, the question is basically just a roundabout way of asking: "Do you know what Old English is?"
To which your answer is (or was, until you took this quiz): "No, I don't."
So I think it's fine without that clarification.
I hope you realize that makes it far *easier* to decipher Old English. English has wandered much farther from its proto-Germanic roots than other Germanic languages, and the largest changes happened between Old and Middle English thanks to the massive French influence in the Middle Ages.
Speaking a language that maintained many Germanic features that English has lost would be a huge leg up in understanding.
To correct your earlier analogy, it would be like asking a someone who speaks French if they can understand Old French, vs someone who speaks French and Sardinian. Speaking two Romance languages makes it much easier, and especially speaking a Romance language more similar to classical Latin.
What Ford did do was improve the processes for making automobiles to such a huge degree that they became affordable to the average American. Between 1909 and 1925 the inflation-adjusted cost of the Model T fell by more than 80%. By 1929, the vast majority of American families owned a car, and 79% of the world's automobiles were located in the United States.
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https://www.space.com/v2-rocket
if Altitude > 2000 km;
- Space == true;
- Orbit == false;
else if Altitude = 160 km;
- Space == true;
- Orbit == true;
else if Altitude < 160 km && Altitude >= 100 km;
- Space == true;
- Orbit == false;
else;
- Space == false;
- Orbit == false;
}
But in any case, orbit isn't a function of altitude but of velocity.
A comparison would be Australia/USA/Canada versus say India/Kenya/Egypt.
Modern definition now include "exerting control", but this was not the original meaning.