Yeah, I had no clue on that one. Pure guess work. Though I did have the same issue with the lightbulb, plague and the last four. I managed to narrow a few down to one of two dates, but needless to say, picked the wrong date each and every time.
What? I'm Belgian. I learned about the fall of the Byzantine Empire in great detail at school. It is one of the dates that could be considered the end of the Middle Ages
same, in the uk we learn about the roman empire and subsequently the byzantines, so i am surprised more people didn't get this. ig it depends on what you define as "west"
If there hadn't been choices--or if the choices had been grouped more closely together--I probably wouldn't have gotten it. As it is, I thought it was pretty easy.
Either system is fine in my opinion. While AD and BC may be more recognisable if you have never seen CE and BCE or aren't used to them, I think most people would understand the meaning of either. The idea that CE and BCE are "brain-dead" is wrong though, and what they actually stand for is more accurate than "anno Domini" and "before Christ", as when Jesus was actually born (or conceived, depending on which you think constituted the beginning of his life) is unknown. While the base year was intended to be the year of Jesus' birth or possibly conception, it actually is more accurate to call the years since (AD) 1 (CE) the "common era", as the entire world uses it now and not just Christians.
I don't usually comment on my successes or failures but I just had to share this. I only knew 12 of the answers on this quiz. The other 8 were total guesses....and I got every one right for 100%. What are the odds?? :-)
Doing well on multiple choice quizzes is a skill. It's entirely possible to get a score that reflects much higher than what you actually know, if you can eliminate one or two answers as unlikely. This is how I got a B in high school physics despite not understanding a damn thing about physics.
There were also a few for me where I had to guess and also got 20/20, but it makes it a lot easier with how spaced the choices are. For example even if you have to guess, you all but know that Alexander had to have died in BC so that automatically knocks off two options. Other questions are the same.
I did exactly the same, for some reason I selected 1945 because I was thinking about the atomic bombs. Regardless I didn't know when the japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.
Pretty much knew all of them except when the American thing of Independence got signed. It's never come up in my life, here in NZ. I only knew the American civil war one from reading "Little Women".
Pretty important event in history. If you knew all of these except for the two about the USA that seems like there's almost a deliberate bias in New Zealand history education against teaching anything about America. Judging from comments left by other non-Americans on the site signaling chagrin that they should be expected to know anything at all about the country or its history, I almost even expect that this is true.
Kalbahamut, if Kiwiquizzer didn't know the year of the Chilembwe uprising or that of Malawian Independence from British rule, would you be saying that there was a deliberate bias in New Zealand history education against Malawian history?
I think the difference is that the US is the most influential country in the world. Malawi doesn't affect world events on nearly the same scale. It's just a fact that a handful of countries--the US, Russia, Germany, France, UK, China, India, Japan, Iran, and a few others have an outsized impact on world affairs. That's why their leaders and, yes, their histories are better-known. To compare US history to Malawian history in the way you're doing is intentionally obtuse. Do you consider the Magna Carta merely "British history"? Or do people study it because of the impact it's had on history since it happened? The American Revolution is likewise a huge event because without it, the last century would be very different than it was.
There is not a deliberate bias in NZ history education against teaching anything about America. Just not the American Declaration of Independence. Of course there is a big focus on the Treaty of Waitangi. The curriculum here regarding USA includes Black Civil Rights in the USA, the Vietnam War, and World War I and II.
Pretty big omission, kiwi. The British Empire losing her North American colonies (the first time any such declaration of independence from the European colonial powers happened - and it's not like it was just some small island backwater that did it - this was huge), let alone the founding of the United States, is easily one of the most important events in world history. And my being an American has nothing to do with that statement. Any British, French, Russian, or Chinese historian worth their salt would absolutely tell you the same. It is indeed weird that basic history curricula anywhere would ignore it. Or focus on the Civil Rights movement or Vietnam War instead. I know Oz and NZ were involved in Vietnam and the World Wars so that makes some sense, but, Civil Rights over the American Revolution makes no sense even down under.
The only thing I missed was the gunpowder plot. I've definitely never heard of it. I figured it was one of the later two dates, though. Just guessed the wrong one.
I don't usually comment on my result, but I scored 16 here. As I only studied Chinese History and not Western History at school (the later was an elective that I didn't pick), I have no idea about many of these, such as the Protestant Reformation and Gunpowder Plot. In fact, I had to convert the years into the corresponding Chinese dynasties and guessed the answers. I was surprised that the US Civil War happened so late in history, which was towards the end of Taiping Rebellion in Qing dynasty.
Most of us would fail pretty hard at a quiz on the stuff you probably learned in school. Western education barely teaches Chinese or Asian history at all. It's pretty much all Egypt, Greece, Persia, Europe Europe Europe Europe, and (at least in the US, since the rest of the world sometimes seems to want to ignore that America exists) a lot of American history... when it comes to China we learn about the Great Wall, some ancient Chinese inventions, maybe a few paragraphs about Confucius, and the Mongols, and if you're in a good school district they might get to the Opium Wars, treaty ports, and Communist revolution.. but that's about it.
lmao in Brazil we're taught that Santos Dumont invented the airplane, and when the Wright Brothers are mentioned we just say that their model barely worked and that it shouldn't even count as an aiplane.
It’s a huge trigger reading Wright Brothers name as a Brazilian. I mean, Santos Dumont created the first heavier-than-air aircraft, so... whatever. I guess.
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