History by Letter - C

The Celts were a civilization, not a "group"...

Aren't they by definition a group though?

100%! I love these!

We literally learned about all these people/events in my world history class this year. What do you know, school actually coming in handy for once :D

I would change the format of the question to "Medieval Christians attempt to capture the Holy Land'

Change the letter s from attempts to Christian

But as there were three crusades, attempts in the plural is a better clue.

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.

Does that include Campus Crusade?

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.)

somehow i read it as polish-french emporer of polonium, confused the hell out of me.

also i wanted carl to fit for charlemagne, due to him being named carl in my native language.

great quiz!

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_.)

Don't feel bad. I kept typing in "Cetaceous" wondering why it wasn't working.

+1

I typed in crustaceous... several times...

I did it again! Three years later!

cretaceous

Typed in crusade and crusaders but couldn't manage to put an 's' on the end....

Columbus never landed in America... He landed in the Caribbean which is why it's now called the West Indies.

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.

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.

And Copernicus didn't "discover" heliocentrism. He proposed it as a model.

Same goes for several BC-era Hindu philosophers who've disappeared from the history books somehow...

Thanks for making this. Very fun.

+1. Nice mix.

"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?

If it's an adjective then it needs no capital letter at the start.

Please accept crusade and confucianism. At least for us non native English speakers it is sometimes hard to write exactly right.

I wish I could write in another language as well as you do in English.

Since Dolly Parton wrote it I'd say she's more the "inventor". :) Both of them sang beautiful versions of it.

Surprised that cotton gin could be so low. Or maybe it's my us-centrism showing

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 very much knew Confucius but didn't know what 'Great Sage' meant, so I didn't get it.

I mean, with "Chinese Philosopher" some bells should be going off

I always thought cotton gin was some sort of alcoholic gin!

technically, columbus wasnt looking for india, he was looking for the indies, which are now known as indonesia

Cleopatra was a queen not a pharaoh

Accept "crusade" please (given other singular words are accepted for plurals elsewhere in the quiz such as Celt)

Not to be super annoying, but the Cretaceous period was prehistoric...