History General Knowledge #3

Both Venice and Genoa (there were some smaller cities lead by doges too) were lead by doges, so you should add something to show that the answer your looking for is Venice and Zadar is also a Christian city, sacked by the Fourth Crusade. In my opinion, you should correct your quiz.

Oh, so that's why Genoa worked when I was guessing random Italian cities. I was trying to work out what connected two cities on opposite sides of Italy.

Got 100%. Maybe you should accept the Sandwich Islands as a type-in. That's what Cook named the islands, before we reverted to using the indigenous name.

But it's Istanbul, not Constantinople!

Not back then, just as Babylon is now part of Iraq.

Istanbul was Constantinople

Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople

Been a long time gone, oh Constantinople

Why did Constantinople get the works?

That's nobody's business but the Turks

wow...such venice...many canal...doge rule....wow

"What city was led by a doge?" England

Good water!

I kept typing "dynomite" like I was J.J. Walker.

can you accept TNT for dynamite

I also tried TNT a thousand times before noticing that it should be dynamite hahaha

Just to ask if Haudinoshonee would also work for Iroquois. Both terms are used in Canada.

To be nitpicky, there were more oracles of Apollo in antiquity, for example in Didyma. The one in Delphi is (and was) just the most famous.

Please accept Byzantium

Idk, but could you accept Haudenosaunee for Iroquois.

Not sure how one "discovers" a place that already has a thriving civilization. Maybe Cook "found" Hawaii?

He discovered it because neither he nor anyone from his culture had known about it before.

Just like the ruins of ancient city of Pompeii were discovered when people who did it were obviously not the first people ever to have known about the city, because someone had built it and lived there before.

Or William Herschel would still have discovered Uranus even if there had already been intelligent species living there.

The act of discovering something is almost always relative to your own state of knowledge. It's about finding something out on your own rather than learning from someone else.

Look out the definitions of the word "to discover" in dictionaries. To do something as the first human being ever is not the only possible way to understand and use this word. And if it were, we could well never use it because it's almost always impossible to prove nobody has seen or thought about something before you.

1204 never forget

The VOC (Dutch East India Company) had a monopoly on cloves, nutmeg and mace. Either of them should be correct too, not just the general word spice.

Please accept Istanbul for Constantinople and Haudenosaunee for Iroquois