The total number of crusades is arguable. Some say six, some say seven, others are adamant there were nine, and some say 30 or more if you include the lesser ones.
But what they're looking for is definitions, not sentences. If you asked, "What are the Crusades?", the answer wouldn't be "Medieval Christians attempt to capture the Holy Land," because that doesn't make sense grammatically. It also makes it seem like it's about the Christians when it's actually about the attempts. (Crusades = attempts (events, occurrences), not Crusades = Christians.)
That's right, although the US and Soviet Union emerged as superpowers. Perhaps a better clue would include Western Bloc versus Eastern Bloc nations, or NATO vs. the Warsaw Pact nations. (That just reminded me of a great book, _The Spy Who Came in from the Cold_.)
The Caribbean is in America. Unless you take America to mean the United States of America. America as a political boundary I think tends to incorporate North and Latin America.
Dear brandybuck96, you are right! America is not only USA but Canada, Caribbean Sea, Central and South America as well!!! (we understand that USA citizens always refers themselves as americans but the exact meaning of the name "America" includes Caribbean Sea and all territories that I mentioned above).
Another misnomer brought about by ignorance. Columbus destroyed everything he touched; If not by outright looting and murder, then by the diseases he brought with him. No wonder the people of the Caribbean do not celebrate him.
Have you ever heard of the Columbus Lighthouse in Santo Domingo? It cost nearly $70M to build. I think most would agree that by today's standards Columbus was a ruthless bastard, but you can't say he isn't celebrated on the Caribbean.
A) As was said already, the Caribbean is part of the Americas.
B) If you ment that he NEVER landed on the continent, that is also wrong. While it is true he only landed on various islands during his first voyage, he also mapped a large portion of the continental coast of South and Central America later in his life.
Aristarchus of Samos (b. 310 BC) suggested that the Earth and Planets travelled around the sun and calculated the relative sizes and distances of the Earth, Moon and Sun and stated that the Universe was of infinite size. Copernicus knew of Aristarchus and his work and mentioned him in his notes when writing his book "Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres' ...... but all mention of Aristarchus was removed by the Publishers.
"Medieval Christian attempts to capture the holy land" Is a little weird choice of words. I thought the answer was a person, since christian is in singular form... maybe "Medieval christians" would be better?
I read 'Invention of Eli Whitney' as 'Inventor of Eli Whitney', so I kept trying to think of names of famous authors (not that I knew the correct answer anyway).
I think you need to be more specific on the communism one, “ism” isn’t enough to figure it out, something like democracy, aristocracy, communism, monarchy, socialism, fascism, it is called an ideology
Great quiz. Perhaps to make it an even number of questions & to make it more symmetrical & visually pleasing add one more? Perhaps something about Cicero, being beheaded by Mark Anthony?
Change the letter s from attempts to Christian
also i wanted carl to fit for charlemagne, due to him being named carl in my native language.
great quiz!
B) If you ment that he NEVER landed on the continent, that is also wrong. While it is true he only landed on various islands during his first voyage, he also mapped a large portion of the continental coast of South and Central America later in his life.