World History Online Quiz

Karl Marx (5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist.

“Man is born free but everywhere is in chains.” This quote made the Geneva-born political philosopher, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, world-famous.

The three principal partners in the Axis alliance were Germany, Italy, and Japan. These three countries recognized German domination over most of continental Europe; Italian domination over the Mediterranean Sea; and Japanese domination over East Asia and the Pacific.

Napoleon Bonaparte was born on 15 August 1769, in Ajaccio, on the Mediterranean island of Corsica. He was the second of eight surviving children born to Carlo Buonaparte (1746-1785), a lawyer, and Letizia Romalino Buonaparte (1750-1836).

Anti-Semitism, hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious or racial group.

The Hundred Years' War was a war involving a series of conflicts between the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of France, that took place during the Late Middle Ages, and lasted for a total of 116 years.

Plato, Machiavelli and Herbert Spencer are thinkers who influenced Fascism. The Greek philosopher Plato supported many similar political positions to fascism. Niccolo Machiavelli is known to have influenced Italian Fascism, particularly through his promotion of the absolute authority of the state.

American Civil War, a four-year war (1861–65) fought between the United States and 11 Southern states that seceded to form the Confederate States of America. Civil War was fought over the moral issue of slavery.

Johannes Erwin Eugen Rommel was a German general and military theorist. Popularly known as the Desert Fox, he served as field marshal in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II, as well as serving in the Reichswehr of the Weimar Republic, and the army of Imperial Germany.

The word “Muhajir” simply means an immigrant or refugee in Urdu. Muhajir is the Urdu-speaking segment of Pakistan's population, whose elders migrated from India during Partition in 1947 and they are primarily concentrated in urban Sindh.