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History by Letter #2 - D

History by Letter is back for a second round! Name the historical terms, all of which begin with D, based on the hints provided.
Be sure to check out the original History by Letter series and the History by Letter #2 quizzes!
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Last updated: March 1, 2015
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West-African Kingdom located in what is now Benin
Dahomey
Country that was ruled by kings Canute the Great and Harald Bluetooth
Denmark
Book by Karl Marx about his ideology
Das Kapital
Biblical King who slew Goliath
David
Site of the most famous Greek Oracle
Delphi
Portuguese Explorer, the first known European to round the Cape of Good Hope
Bartolomeu Dias
Greek God of Wine
Dionysus
Roman Emperor who established the Tetrarchy
Diocletian
Italian Poet who wrote the Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri
Egyptian Pharaoh, buried in a famous step-pyramid at Saqqara
Djoser
German City that was firebombed by the Allies in WWII
Dresden
The oldest continuously inhabited capital city in the world
Damascus
English Princess who died in a car crash in Paris
Princess Diana
Greek equivalent of Ceres, mother of Persephone
Demeter
City where John F. Kennedy was assassinated
Dallas
Series of rulers from the same family
Dynasty
Book that records the Great Survey of 1086 of the English Population
Domesday Book
French City from where 300,000 allied troops were evacuated in WWII
Dunkirk
Mon Kingdom in what is now Thailand from the 6th to the 13th centuries A.D.
Dvaravati
Swissman on whose ideas were based the Red Cross and Geneva Conventions
Henry Dunant
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kleafer
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Mar 1, 2015
Over 300,000 Allied troops were evacuated from Dunkirk
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