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What empire, based in Cusco, once controlled much of the Andes?
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Inca Empire
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Who is said to have cut the Gordian Knot?
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Alexander the Great
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What term refers to the noble warrior caste of feudal Japan?
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Samurai
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What country imported an estimated four million slaves before finally banning slavery in 1888?
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Brazil
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Who invented the printing press in Europe?
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Johannes Gutenberg
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What product did Gandhi march to the sea to obtain?
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Salt
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What trade did the Dutch East India Company dominate in 17th and 18th centuries?
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Spice
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Who sailed around the world on the Golden Hind?
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Sir Francis Drake
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What island chain did Charles Darwin famously visit, inspiring his theory of natural selection?
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Galápagos Islands
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What "generalísimo" ruled Spain from 1939–1975?
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Francisco Franco
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What nation was ruled by King Nebuchadnezzar II?
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Babylon
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Who famously had children with both Julius Caesar and Mark Antony?
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Cleopatra
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Who said "honey, I forgot to duck" after being shot in 1981?
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Ronald Reagan
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What Native American confederacy is composed of six tribes including the Mohawk and Seneca?
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Iroquois
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What Christian city was sacked during the Fourth Crusade?
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Constantinople
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What did Alfred Nobel invent?
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Dynamite
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Who commissioned the Domesday Book to survey his conquests?
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William the Conqueror
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What city was led by a doge?
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Venice
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Where in Greece could Apollo's oracle be found?
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Delphi
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What island chain did Captain Cook discover before being killed by the people who already lived there?
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Hawaii
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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
The feats of exploration and discovery by the polynesians were truly incredible. If we knew who first discovered Hawaii I'm sure they'd be justly celebrated.
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.