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Great Historians (Europe, Canada, and the U.S.) - Statistics
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This quiz has been taken 118 times
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- The average score is 6 of 26
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| Clue | Historian | % Correct |
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| Ancient Greece thinker who reported on the Greco-Persian Wars (499 BCE - 449 BCE), often referred to as the "Father of History" | Herodotus | 85%
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| 18th-century British intellectual and Member of Parliament, author of the formidable "History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" | Edward Gibbon | 69%
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| Co-founder of the Annales School, this French medievalist joined the Resistance during World War II and was executed by the Nazis in 1944 | Marc Bloch | 46%
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| Voguish 20th-century British Marxist historian, widely acclaimed for his trilogy concerning the 'long 19th century' | Eric Hobsbawm | 38%
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| A leading figure of the Annales 2nd generation, who emphasised the role of large-scale socioeconomic structures in the understanding of history | Fernand Braudel | 38%
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| 19th-century German philosopher, economist, political theorist, sociologist, journalist, and revolutionary, acclaimed among historians for his "18th Brumaire of Louis Napoleon" | Karl Marx | 38%
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| Contemporary British historian specialised in Ancient Rome, praised for challenging traditional views on Roman culture, gender, and politics | Mary Beard | 38%
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| Contemporary Italian historian, whose "The Cheese and the Worms" is an undisputed cardinal work in the field of 'microhistory' | Carlo Ginzburg | 31%
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| Annales School 3rd generation prominent medievalist and leading figure of the 'New History' movement | Jacques Le Goff | 31%
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| Prominent 20th-century British intellectual, author of the massive 12-volume "A Study of History" | Arnold J. Toynbee | 23%
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| 19th-century German historian often credited as the founder of modern source-based history, focusing on archival research and the analysis of historical documents | Leopold von Ranke | 23%
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| Greek thinker of the Hellenistic period who most notably reported on the Punic Wars (264 BCE - 146 BCE) and on Rome's growing influence over the Mediterranean | Polybius | 23%
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| Ancient Greece thinker and general who reported on the Second Peloponnesian War (431 BCE - 404 BCE) | Thucydides | 23%
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| Roman Empire thinker whose monumental "Ab Urbe Condita" covered almost 1,000 years of history, from the earliest legends of Rome through the reign of Augustus | Titus Livius | Livy | 23%
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| Irish historian of paramount importance to the 'Late Antiquity' field, generally credited as its inventor | Peter Brown | 15%
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| Contemporary American-Canadian historian best known for "The Return of Martin Guerre", considered to be one of the earliest works of 'microhistory' | Natalie Zemon Davis | 8%
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| An Annales School 4th generation intellectual, specialised in the history of books, publishing, and reading | Roger Chartier | 8%
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| 19th-century German intellectual, Nobel Prize laureate and author of the multi-volume "A History of Rome" | Theodor Mommsen | 8%
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| German philosopher, cultural critic, and essayist that perished during World War II; an eclectic thinker whose work integrated elements of German idealism, post-Kantianism, Western Marxism and Jewish mysticism | Walter Benjamin | 8%
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| Contemporary American historian specialised in British colonial rule in Africa, best known for proposing a fresh perspective on the Mau Mau rebellion | Caroline Elkins | 0%
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| Contemporary British intellectual who espouses a feminist point of view in the examination of themes such as 'gender', 'class', 'race', and 'empire' | Catherine Hall | 0%
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| 20th-century British economic historian and medievalist who strived to develop a social history of medieval people, particularly women | Eileen Power | 0%
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| 20th-century Austro-American intellectual who made relevant contributions to the development of the academic field of 'women's history' | Gerda Lerner | 0%
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| 19th-century German historian whose work on Alexander the Great inspired a new school of thought focused on 'great men' and how their actions shaped the past | Johann Gustav Droysen | 0%
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| 19th-century French historian, whose monumental "Histoire de France" covered more than 1,000 years of history, from the early Frankish period to the Revolution of 1789 | Jules Michelet | 0%
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| Austrian historian regarded by some as the first preeminent scholar of the Holocaust, whose "The Destruction of the European Jews" is widely considered a seminal study on the topic | Raul Hilberg | 0%
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