| Description | Date | Answer | % Correct |
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| This empire ended the Byzantines. By WWI it was considered the "sick man of Europe". | 1918 | Ottoman Empire | 95%
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| At one point, it controlled the entire Mediterranean before it decided to split. | 284 | Roman Empire | 95%
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| A mountainous country led by the Dalai Lama himself. | 1950 | Tibet | 90%
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| This Empire spanned the Andes mountains and was the largest on its continent. | 1572 | Inca Empire | 82%
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| Claimed by both Mexico and the US, but de facto ruled by itself. | 1845 | Texas Republic | 82%
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| This empire was already falling before the Spanish brought pestilence and conquest to the land. | 1521 | Aztec Empire | 73%
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| This nation claimed to be three things it was not. It was actually a union of many smaller kingdoms. | 1806 | Holy Roman Empire | 73%
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| This nation assimilated smaller kingdoms into itself, making its king the king of kings. | 330 BC | Persian Empire | 62%
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| This Kingdom was directly ruled by the pope for over a millennium. | 1870 | Papal States | 56%
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| The largest empire of the Indian subcontinent before British rule. | 1857 | Mughal Empire | 52%
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| This small former Soviet state held off the Russian army for two years, however it was annexed 4 years later. | 2000 | Chechnya | 51%
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| What was ruled by Isabella before she married Ferdinand. | 1469 | Castile | 50%
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| This nation took many generations to unify, only to be taken over by United States businessmen. | 1898 | Hawaii | 50%
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| Pol Pot believed all other communist states had done it wrong, so he decided to rid his country of ALL western influence. | 1975 | Khmer Rouge | 48%
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| This South American nation eventually split into four smaller ones and lost its "grand" status. | 1831 | Gran Colombia | 47%
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| An ancient country that was occupied many times, only to re-emerge once again. It only finally fell after Persian takeover. | 583 BC | Babylon | 44%
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| This ancient nation believed that losing a battle would mean the end of the world... and its demise began once a battle was lost. | 609 BC | Assyria | 34%
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| This country was led by Giuseppe Garibaldi to unify a peninsula. | 1861 | Sardinia | 34%
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| This Germanic tribe lived in the Hispanic and Gaulish regions of Rome's carcass. | 712 | Visigoths | 32%
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| This Pre-Russian Kingdom, named after its capital, controlled land from the black sea to Northern Scandinavia, to the Ural Mountains. | 1478 | Novgorod Republic | 28%
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| The Southern counterpart kingdom to Israel. | 586 BC | Judah | 25%
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| This nation succeeded the Mali empire as ruler of West Africa, and profited greatly off of the land's gold, salt, and ivory. | 1591 | Songhai | 22%
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| The predecessor to Ethiopia and the first country to bring christianity to Africa | 960 | Aksum | 21%
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| The Zoroastrian empire of Iran that fell to the rise of Islam. | 651 | Sassanid Empire | 20%
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