Indian History Mixed Quiz: Set 134

The colonists protested with the slogan "No taxation without representation" and backed it with a boycott of British goods.

The Zollverein was formed in 1834 under Prussian leadership. It removed the internal customs duties that had made trade between the German states slow and costly and reduced the number of currencies in circulation, so a single economic space existed long before a single political one.

Renaissance humanists did not condemn wealth, power and glory; they saw them as worthy human aims, so this statement is the one that is not true.

After defeating Humayun at Chausa and Kannauj, Sher Shah Suri refounded Patna in 1541 as a fortified administrative and commercial town on the ruins of ancient Pataliputra, recognising the strategic value of the site on the Ganga.

Krishna Menon, India's best known diplomat of the period and later Defence Minister, is credited with coining the expression non-alignment in a United Nations speech in 1953; he is also remembered for the longest speech ever made at the Security Council, on Kashmir.

The temple at Thanjavur, known both as the Rajarajesvara temple after its builder and as the Brihadisvara temple, was completed in 1010 during the reign of Rajaraja I. Its vimana is one of the tallest of any medieval Indian temple and its walls carry long inscriptions recording grants, servants and…

Cavour judged that Sardinia-Piedmont could not defeat Austria alone, and at Plombieres in July 1858 he reached a secret understanding with Napoleon III for French military help in a war against Austria.

The Mir Bakhshi was the head of the military establishment: he kept the muster rolls of the mansabdars, verified the horses and men at inspection, recommended candidates for rank and countersigned their pay orders, and the news writers and intelligence reporters of the provinces also sent their reports through his…

Meeting at Philadelphia, the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence on 4 July 1776. The Second Continental Congress met from May 1775, after fighting had begun at Lexington and Concord.

It was the last and decisive engagement of the First Anglo-Sikh War and was followed within weeks by the Treaty of Lahore of 9 March 1846.

The Gold Coast became independent as Ghana on 6 March 1957 under Kwame Nkrumah, the first colony in sub-Saharan Africa to do so, and Nkrumah became a leading voice of pan-Africanism and a founder of the Non-Aligned Movement.

In a broadcast on Azad Hind Radio in 1944, Bose addressed Mahatma Gandhi as the Father of the Nation and asked for his blessings for the Indian National Army's fight.

The parliament elected in May 1848 met in the Church of St Paul at Frankfurt, drafted a constitution for a German nation headed by a monarch answerable to a parliament, and offered that crown to the Prussian king.

Porus ruled the Paurava kingdom between the Jhelum and the Chenab and fought Alexander on the Hydaspes, the Greek name for the Jhelum.

Lenin set out the April Theses soon after he returned to Petrograd from exile in Switzerland in April 1917. The February Revolution of 1917 ended the rule of Tsar Nicholas II and brought a Provisional Government to power.

His Resolution on Local Self-Government of 1882 proposed boards for rural and urban areas with a majority of elected non-official members and a non-official chairman, and asked that they be given control over local funds, which is why he is remembered as the father of local self-government in India.

The wall was opened and began to be broken up on 9 November 1989, the single most memorable image of the end of the Cold War.

The Treaty of Frankfurt ended the Franco-Prussian War in 1871 and transferred the industrial border provinces of Alsace and most of Lorraine to the new German Empire, along with a heavy war indemnity.

He headed the Provisional Government that the Bolsheviks under Lenin overthrew in the October Revolution of 1917. Russia had two revolutions in 1917.

In October 1962 American aerial photographs revealed Soviet missile sites under construction in Cuba; President John F. Kennedy ordered a naval quarantine of the island and, after thirteen days, Nikita Khrushchev agreed to withdraw the missiles, the United States undertaking not to invade Cuba.