Wherio · October 13th, 2026
Five real historical events. Guess where each one happened, then compare your score with the answers and locations below.
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1. Emperor Justinian dedicates a cathedral crowned by a dome so vast he is said to have claimed he outdid Solomon.
Answer: 🇹🇷 Turkey · Dec 27th, AD 537
The Hagia Sophia was a church, then a mosque, then a museum, and is once again a mosque.
2. A steppe chieftain named Temujin is proclaimed universal ruler at a great tribal assembly, uniting the nomad clans.
Answer: 🇲🇳 Mongolia · 1206
Temujin took the name Genghis Khan and founded the Mongol Empire.
3. Horseback wrestling, eagle hunting and goat carcass polo fill the first World Nomad Games in Cholpon-Ata.
Answer: 🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan · 2014
The World Nomad Games feature kok boru, played on horseback with a goat carcass.
4. Roman emperor Diocletian builds a vast retirement palace on the Adriatic coast, later incorporated into a major coastal city.
Answer: 🇭🇷 Croatia · c. 295-305
Split grew up inside Diocletian's palace walls, and his mausoleum became the cathedral.
5. Napoleon wins his masterpiece victory over two emperors near a small Moravian town.
Answer: 🇨🇿 Czechia · Dec 2nd, 1805
Austerlitz broke the armies of Austria and Russia and ended the Holy Roman Empire within a year.
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- Heinrich Schliemann excavates the site of Troy.
- At a kurultai on the eastern Eurasian steppe, Temujin was proclaimed Genghis Khan, founding an empire.