Q81: The Great Wall of China was built in stages over many centuries.
Answer: True ✔
💡 The wall was not built all at once; successive ruling dynasties added new sections to it, and its most famous surviving parts date from the Ming dynasty.
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Answer: True ✔
💡 The wall was not built all at once; successive ruling dynasties added new sections to it, and its most famous surviving parts date from the Ming dynasty.
Answer: Cyrus the Great
💡 In the 6th century BCE, Cyrus the Great founded an empire that stretched from Asia Minor to the borders of India.
Answer: The Roman Emperor Constantine
💡 Emperor Constantine made it the new capital of his empire in the 4th century CE, so it carried his name.
Answer: 'Abbas ibn Firnas
💡 'Abbas ibn Firnas lived in Cordoba in the 9th century CE. He was an inventor with many interests, and his attempt is considered one of the earliest attempts at flight.
Answer: The Lion of the Seas
💡 Ibn Majid was one of the most skilled ship captains of the Indian Ocean, and he wrote books on the sciences of the sea and the stars that sailors navigate by.
Answer: Rome
💡 The Romans built a huge road network linking the far corners of their empire to their capital, Rome, and some of these roads still exist.
Answer: China
💡 Confucius lived about 2,500 years ago, and his sayings on ethics and respect for family still influence Chinese culture.
Answer: The Nabataeans
💡 Inscriptions show that the Nabataean letters gradually developed into the Arabic letters we write with today.
Answer: A human
💡 The Sphinx was carved from a single rock next to the pyramids, combining the strength of a lion with a human head.
Answer: Papyrus
💡 Papyrus grew on the banks of the Nile, and from its name in European languages (Papyrus) came the word "paper."
Answer: Hannibal
💡 Hannibal undertook this famous adventure in the 3rd century BCE, and his battle plans are still studied today.
Answer: Tunisia
💡 The Phoenicians founded Carthage on the coast of Tunisia, and it became a great sea power that rivaled Rome in long wars.
Answer: The Ptolemies
💡 The Ptolemaic kings founded the library to gather the knowledge of the world, and it became a destination for scholars from everywhere in ancient times.
Answer: Ibn an-Nafis
💡 Ibn an-Nafis corrected an old idea and showed that blood passes from the heart to the lungs and then returns, centuries before Europeans knew it.
Answer: Abu Bakr ar-Razi
💡 Ar-Razi (Rhazes) wrote a treatise describing the symptoms of each disease precisely, and he also wrote the medical encyclopedia "Al-Hawi."
Answer: Cleopatra VII
💡 After Cleopatra's defeat and death in 30 BCE, Egypt became a province of the Roman Empire.
Answer: Marco Polo
💡 Marco Polo traveled to China in the 13th century, and his travel book introduced Europeans to the riches of the East.
Answer: Vesuvius
💡 The ash of Mount Vesuvius covered Pompeii and preserved it as it was, so today it is a rare window into the daily life of the Romans.
Answer: Saba' (Sheba)
💡 The Sabaeans built the Ma'rib Dam to store rainwater and irrigate the land, and the Noble Quran mentions the story of Saba' (Sheba) and the flood of the dam.
Answer: Chemistry
💡 Jabir ibn Hayyan is considered a pioneer of chemistry; he valued experimentation and described processes such as distillation and crystallization.