History Quiz: Geography #2

It is located within the country's Nord-Ouest department.

The Ottoman Empire had a population of 35,350,000 in 1856, the Roman Empire had a population of 56,800,000 in 25 BC, and the Mughal Empire had a population of 158,400,000 in 1700.

It is believed that he could have reached only as far as southern Morocco to as far as Gabon.

The 1960 Valdivia or Great Chilean earthquake reached a magnitude of somewhere between 9.4 and 9.6. Estimates of the total number of fatalities range between 1,000 and 6,000.

It is named after the Dogger Bank, a large sandbank that was once part of Doggerland. The sandbank is named after a type of Dutch fishing boat called a dogger. Doggerland started to disappear when rising sea levels reduced it to low-lying islands until even these were submerged, possibly due to a tsunami caused by a submarine landslide that was one of the Storegga Slides (these were some of the largest such landslides in history, occurring at the edge of Norway's continental shelf).

The Empire is also known as the Triple Alliance. It consisted of the city-states of Tenochtitlan, Texcoco and Tlacopan, and although they were initially self-governing, Tenochtitlan came to dominate the others until the Empire was essentially ruled from there. When the Aztecs conquered a city, they left the rulers in power as long as they agreed to pay a semi-annual tribute and to supply military forces when needed for war efforts.

Russia controlled its territory between 1900 and 1920 while Austria-Hungary controlled its territory between 1901 and 1917. Other concession territories were controlled by Britain (1860–1943), France (1860–1946), the United States (1869–1902), Japan (1898–1945), Germany (1899–1917), Italy (1901–1943) and Belgium (1902–1931).

The modern name is Balkh, and it is located in Balkh Province. The name of the ancient region known as Bactria is derived from Bactra.

Vermont was admitted to the Union on 4th March 1791, Texas on 29th December 1845 and California on 9th September 1850.

The city was established in territory of the Kingdom of Kush that had been conquered by the pharaoh Thutmose III, and was located on a site now occupied by the Sudanese town of Karima. Avaris was located in the northeastern region of the Nile Delta while the remains of Thonis can be found underwater in Abū Qīr Bay.

Peru was bound to Bolivia by a secret 1873 treaty of alliance, so when, in the lead-up to the war, Chile demanded for Peru to stay neutral and Peru refused, Chile declared war on both nations.

Venice had controlled the island since 1473 but formally annexed it in 1489. The Republic controlled Cyprus until the Ottomans conquered it in 1570. England controlled Cyprus after Richard I captured it in 1191; he used it as a major supply base for a year, after which he sold it to the Knights Templar.

Lhasa was the capital of the Tibetan Empire while Kabul was one of the capital of the Durrani Empire..

Ownership of the site was returned on 26th October 1985.

It was located in Boeotia.