History Quiz: Who...?

Chandragupta Maurya was the founder of the Mauryan Empire in India and Romesh Ranganathan is a modern British comedian.

Mansa Musa, or Musa I, was a ruler of the Mali Empire and one of the richest people in history.

It is a prime example of Wright's notion of "organic architecture".

The purpose of these voyages was to establish control over a large maritime trading network.

Ögedei was one of Genghis' sons and Temür one of his great-great-grandsons.

Ahuizotl takes his name from an Aztec mythological creature with a hand on its tail.

Arminius was a Germanic chieftain who was allied with the Empire since he was made a hostage when he was a child and raised in Rome. He plotted a revolt while in Germania and practically destroyed the three legions passing through the Teutoburg forest.

Movable type technology is counted as one of the Four Great Inventions of Ancient China.

He earned the nickname because of the fearless tactics he displayed.

Land was sighted to the west by the explorer Bjarni Herjólfsson in 985 when he was blown off course when travelling from Iceland to Greenland. He didn't land but described the sighting to Leif Erikson, who subsequently landed there, on what is now known as Newfoundland.

It was initially widely believed in the US to have been a forgery perpetrated by British intelligence, but then Zimmermann publicly admitted that it was genuine.

His defeat and capture by Timur led to a civil war in the Ottoman Empire, as his sons each claiming the throne for themselves.

He was visited by representatives of various religions in 986. He chose not to convert to Islam due to its taboos against alcohol and pork, nor to convert to Judaism. He sent out envoys the following year to study the religions of neighbouring regions and they were impressed by rituals occurring at Hagia Sophia

The Twenty-fifth Dynasty consisted of pharaohs from the Kingdom of Kush, after Piye conquered Egypt.

Archaeologists believe that it was supposed to be his royal estate, probably after a successful military campaign.