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Trivia Questions

He said he had no difficulty expressing sadness & extreme solitude in the work seen here

In 1632 this lord founded the colony of Maryland

7 years after crossing the Alps, he reached the gates of Rome with his troops in 211 B.C., but didn't get in

In 1533 Pizarro killed Atahualpa, the leader of these people

Ivan the Great made the great decision to gain independence from this group known as the Golden Horde

He succeeded Henry II as king of England in 1189 & was himself succeeded by John in 1199

When Italy was declared united in 1861, it was still missing Venice & this current capital

Exactly 600 years after the Norman Conquest, London suffered through plague & this other major disaster

In the ECSC, formed in western Europe in 1952, the "CS" stood for coal & this product

In the 1697 Treaty of Rijswijk, the French recognized this Dutch-born man as king of England