World History Online Quiz

The concept of political sovereignty was advocated by Rousseau. Rousseau uses the term 'sovereign' as a label for the person holding the supreme power in a state. This confirms the fundamental notion of sovereignty that a sovereign has absolute and inalienable power overs its subjects.

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.

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.

The Non-Aligned Movement was formally established in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, through an initiative of Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito, Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, Ghanaian President Kwame Nkrumah and Indonesian President Sukarno.

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

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).

The Nuremberg Trial and the Tokyo War Crimes Trials (1945–1948) Following World War II, the victorious Allied governments established the first international criminal tribunals to prosecute high-level political officials and military authorities for war crimes and other wartime atrocities.

Arunachal Pradesh borders the states of Assam and Nagaland to the south. It shares international borders with Bhutan in the west, Myanmar in the east, and China in the north at the McMahon Line.

In 343 BC, King Philip called on the great philosopher Aristotle to tutor his son. Aristotle sparked and fostered Alexander's interest in literature, science, medicine and philosophy.

In 1919, Mussolini founded the Italian Fasces of Combat in Milan, which became the National Fascist Party two years later.