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If You Can Get 11/14 In This Tricky History Quiz You're Basically A Genius

Questions and answers have been adapted from 2014-2016 Higher history past papers and marking guides issued by the SQA.

The peace enabled the Roman empire to reach an all-time peak population of 70 million people (despite the objections of the Judean People's Front).

Correct answer: The long period of relative peacefulness experienced by the Roman Empire between 27 BC and AD 180.

The graves of high-ranking Britons from the Iron Age often contain valuable goods like chariots, swords, and armour, leading to the belief that warriors with horses were those who had the highest status.

Correct answer: Wealthy, landowning warriors

Six major German tribes, the Visigoths, the Ostrogoths, the Vandals, the Burgundians, the Lombards, and the Franks participated in the fragmentation and the collapse of the Western Roman Empire. Bloody vandals.

Correct answer: The Visigoths and the Ostrogoths

Boudica (a.k.a. Boadicea, Boudicca, Buaidheach, Voadicia and a whole host of other spellings) was the famed queen of the British Celtic Iceni tribe who led a revolt against the occupying forces of the Roman Empire in AD 60 or 61. An epic warrior queen badass, in other words.

Boudica (Boadicea)

Their imaginatively named Medici Bank was the largest in Europe during the 15th century, which led to them gaining political power, marrying into royalty, and getting into various scrapes before the dynasty eventually declined (due to a lack of funds and male heirs) in the 18th century.

Correct answer: The House of Medici

His groundbreaking treatise _De revolutionibus orbium coelestium_ (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres) refuted Ptolemy's geocentric system, which had been widely accepted since ancient times. Dang.

Correct answer: Copernicus

He wrote _The Prince_, which states that the aims of princes—such as glory and survival—can justify the use of immoral means to achieve those ends, giving rise to the word "Machiavellian", i.e. being a bit of a bastard.

Correct answer: A historian, politician, philosopher, and writer.

British inventors absolutely went to town in the mid-to-late 1700s, coming up with innovations like steam powered looms, improved furnaces, and machine tools like the cylinder boring machine, which is more interesting than it sounds.

Correct answer: Around 1760 to 1830 / Great Britain

And it worked. Historian Gordon S. Wood described _Common Sense_ as "the most incendiary and popular pamphlet of the entire revolutionary era."

Correct answer: It encouraged people in the Thirteen Colonies to fight for independent, egalitarian government.

The Bastille was the state prison (and armory), and on 14 July 1789 it was attacked by an angry mob of revolutionaries who saw it as an intolerable symbol of royal authority, and a handy source of weapons.

Correct answer: The Bastille

In July 1914, one month after Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was killed by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, beginning the First World War. Cheers, guys. Way to go.

Correct answer: Austria-Hungary

It was signed on 28 June 1919, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

Correct answer: Versailles in France

It was a decisive U.S. naval against Japan in 1942, just six months after the events of Pearl Harbor.

Correct answer: The Battle of Midway

Thankfully, the crisis passed and now the US and USSR get along absolutely wonderfully. Ahem.

Correct answer: The Cuban Missile Crisis

Heck, never mind. You can always read Wikipedia or something. It won't take you long to catch up on the last 10,000 years or so of human events.

Oh dear, you failed history

Hmm, you don't know a huge amount about some historical events, but you're pretty good when it comes to your favourite topics or interests. Maybe watch some documentaries on the History Channel, then try again.

You're a C-grade history student

Hey, not bad at all. You definitely know your Medicis from your Machiavellis and your Iron Age hill forts from your, er, non-Iron Age hill forts. Well done!

You're a B-grade history student

Wow! You seriously know your stuff when it comes to world history. In short, you're a real expert on all of the historical eras, including Yore and Yesteryear. Are you actually a professor or something? Well done!

You're an A-plus grade history student

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