Wherio · October 28th, 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. An international coalition launches an air campaign over the Tigris and Euphrates heartland during the Gulf War.
Answer: 🇮🇶 Iraq · Jan 17th, 1991
The Gulf War drove Iraqi forces from Kuwait after Iraq's invasion of its neighbor.
2. A Muslim eunuch admiral leads a treasure fleet of 317 ships and nearly 28,000 crewmen on a major Indian Ocean expedition.
Answer: 🇨🇳 China · Jul 11th, 1405
Zheng He made seven voyages across Asia, reaching Arabia and the Swahili Coast.
3. Foreign troops enter the mountainous country beyond the Khyber Pass, beginning a long war against guerrillas.
Answer: 🇦🇫 Afghanistan · Dec 1979
The Soviet-Afghan War pitted Soviet and Afghan government forces against mujahideen insurgents.
4. An astronomer ruler builds a massive observatory with a precisely scaled quadrant and compiles a catalog of around 1,000 stars.
Answer: 🇺🇿 Uzbekistan · c. 1424-1429
Ulugh Beg's Samarkand catalog listed around 1,000 stars with figures more accurate than the Almagest.
5. A colonial governor demands to sit on a sacred golden stool, igniting a war led by a defiant queen mother.
Answer: 🇬🇭 Ghana · Mar 25th, 1900
Yaa Asantewaa led the fight, and the Golden Stool was never surrendered to the British.
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- Portuguese traders build a fortified trading post on the Gold Coast, the oldest European building south of the Sahara.
- A mountainous South Asian kingdom bordering China's Wakhan Corridor sees its centuries-old monarchy abolished in a coup, becoming a republic.
- Voters approve a constitution establishing its Fourth Republic, decades after it became the first sub-Saharan African colony to gain independence.
- Mao Zedong launches the Cultural Revolution.
- In the land between the Tigris and Euphrates, a caliph turns a library into a public academy.
- A caliph begins construction of a circular capital city.