History Quiz: True or False? #4

It was situated near the mouth of the Euphrates.

Thomas Cromwell was his great, great grand-uncle.

He was born in Tangier (Morocco) in 1304, which was then part of the Marinid Sultanate.

It is from the Bhagavad Gita, a Hindu text.

Corinth and Thebes demanded for the city to be destroyed, yet the Spartans refused to do so, due to the city's role in defending Greece in the past. However, the walls were removed, and the city-state lost its fleet and overseas possessions.

It became the seat of the empire in 1808, when John VI fled Portugal as it was being invaded by Napoleon. The royal family returned to Portugal in 1821. The king left his son Pedro to rule Brazil as regent; the following year, Pedro declared the independence of Brazil and became the nation's first emperor.

Although he was a Tengrist, Genghis Khan was largely tolerant of other religions and consulted with Buddhist monks, Muslims, Christian missionaries and a Taoist monk. However, he did forbid Halal butchering.

From 1 AD to 500 AD, the city was home to between 100,000 and 200,000 people, making it the largest city in the Americas and the sixth largest city in the world at the time.

The deaths occurred during what is known as the Black War, which lasted from the mid-1820s to 1832. There were thought to be around 1000 Aboriginal Tasmanians alive before the conflict, and it has been estimated that around 900 of them had been killed by either disease or settlers. Today, however, there are between somewhere 6,000 and 23,572 people alive today who are of Tasmanian Aboriginal descent.

The first ruler of Normandy was Rollo. He was a Viking, and he led the Danes in the Siege of Chartres in 911. After failing to capture the city, the Danes were pursued by the West Frankish cavalry led by their king Charles the Simple. The Vikings made a defensive wall out of slaughtered livestock, which scared the Frankish horses and forced Charles to open negotiations with Rollo. Seeing the Danes as potential allies, Charles gave them lands between the mouth of the Seine and what would become Rouen; in return, he had Rollo swear allegiance to him, and also made Rollo convert to Christianity. Rollo went by the title Count of Normandy, and was succeeded by his son William Longsword.

These sites are thought to have been trading colonies. Shortugai, established around 2000 BC in what is now the Darqad District of northern Afghanistan, is the northernmost Indus Valley settlement yet found. It was located close to lapis lazuli mines, and it may have had connections with tin and camel trades. Evidence of farming has also been found nearby.

Nicaragua was, however (1912 to 1933).

The Killke culture occupied the region that would become Cusco from 900 to 1200. They were the people who constructed the fortress of Sacsayhuamán, which was later expanded by the Inca when they occupied the complex in the 13th century. The Inca then slowly built the city of Cusco during the following centuries.

The Malagasy Republic was founded in 1958 as an autonomous republic and became fully independent in 1960. It existed until 1975, when it was replaced by the socialist Democratic Republic of Madagascar. After this, there was the Third Republic of Madagascar, which existed from 1992 to 2010. In 2010, the country adopted a new constitution and became the current Republic of Madagascar.

Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife Elena were executed by firing squad in 1989.