A Slightly Harder Quiz ......

[Knight-Dragon]

Originally posted by jacques
Actually I thought it was the assyrians. But I'm not quite sure they had a kingdom. Or maybe assyrians lived in Armenia?

But the oldest christian church in the world was the Assyrian Church of the East, in the city of Edessa.

The Assyrians were long gone by the time of Jesus. This was the time of the Romans and the Parthians. The Assyrians had a great empire but their wars of conquest were very brutal and genocidal; eventually their enemies banded together and destroyed them. Even levelled Nineveh and killed everyone.

You may be right about the oldest church but my question is regarding the first Christian state in the world.

 

[jacques]

Originally posted by Knight-Dragon
Even levelled Nineveh and killed everyone.

Well they didn't kill everybody.
If you're interested, you can have a look at this article:

http://www.aina.org/aol/peter/brief.htm#33

 

[smokeyjoe]

1) seeing as they were the first and ONLY country to officialy convert to judaism, it can't is Israel can it?

4) Heavy calvary. Could it be Georgia?

 

[Knight-Dragon]

1) seeing as they were the first and ONLY country to officialy convert to judaism, it can't is Israel can it?

Of coz not. I mean the first and only foreign country.

4) Heavy calvary. Could it be Georgia?

Very good, you're close to the region. Now, tell me the name of the people ....

 

[tetley]

1) My answer would be Gibeon. Looks to me like they converted to Judaism in Joshua 9 of the Bible.

 

[CrayonX]

bump

 

[Juize]

3) Rome?
5) Etruscs, or how are they spelled in english language...
7) Western-Goths.

Darn, I cannot understand some of the words ! More engrish lessons...

 

[Knight-Dragon]

Originally posted by tetley
1)My answer would be Gibeon. Looks to me like they converted to Judaism in Joshua 9 of the Bible.

I am not sure what or where is Gibeon. Thus that's not the answer I am looking for, sorry. Besides, I have never read the Bible.

Hint : The empire I am looking for was probably a thousand times more powerful than Gibeon. They were a formidable ally of the Byzantines and together, helped turned back the Arab Islamic tide fr Anatolia IIRC.

 

[Knight-Dragon]

Originally posted by Juize
3) Rome?
5) Etruscs, or how are they spelled in english language...
7) Western-Goths.

Darn, I cannot understand some of the words ! More engrish lessons...

Only 5) is correct. 3) is Armenia and 7) is the Cisalphine Gauls as had been answered above.

You need more history lessons, rather than English lessons.

 

[Kublai-Khan]

Happy Christmas to ALL!!
Even the infidels


Knigh-Dragon
i think that you should answer the remainig questions,
it seems that no-one knows the answers.Including me.

 

[Knight-Dragon]

Oops! Didn't forget, just a bit lazy ...

1) This people were the first and only nation to officially convert to Judaism.

The Khazars. A nomadic tribe who conquered a great part of the plains and grasslands north of the Caucasus. Allies of the Byzantines and drove the Arabs back fr the Caucasus. Although many Khazars were Christians, the King decided to convert to Judaism officially.

2) This kingdom fought against the Chinese and the Khitans, then the Jurchens and finally succumbed to the Mongols.

Xixia. Or Hsi-Hsia in the older format. Tangut Tibetans formed this kingdom in the present Ningxia region in China, around the 'bend' in the Yellow River. IIRC Genghis Khan died after subduing this people.

4) This people provided the Mongol Yuan dynasty with heavy cavalry (i.e. knights, lances, armor and the like).

The Christian Alans of the Caucasian region. Originally sent to the Mongol Yuan court by the Ilkhans of Persia and Mesopotamia, a few thousand of these tribesmen was always camped with the main Mongol force. Formed the heavy cavalry portion of the Mongol army. (The Mongols were more like horse-archers).

8) This people were famous merchants along the Silk Road and thru out Central Asia.

The Sogdians (spelling?). Marco Polo would have known them. These Central Asians dominated the East-West trade betw Byzantine, Islam and the West and China.

9) This people instituted land reforms (namely giving land to peasants in return for military service) which would later form the basis of power for the Sui and Tang dynasties of China.

The Toba Wei, a tribe of uncertain extraction, possibly proto-Mongol. They slowly seeped into N China in the aftermath of the Han collapse and organized their lands into tight parcels of land, peasant fiefholders and obligatory military service, thus providing themselves with a strong hold on the land they held and reliable military manpower.

 

[Kublai-Khan]

Originally posted by Knight-Dragon
The Sogdians (spelling?). Marco Polo would have known them. These Central Asians dominated the East-West trade betw Byzantine, Islam and the West and China.
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Sogdiana was a satrapy of the persian empire, it was the most northern satrapy in central asia, the biggest cities were Maracanda/Samarcanda and Bujara.
I am talking about the aquemaenid (don´t know how to spell it) empire, the ancient one.
It is strange
becouse the silk route developed through the middle ages, and the denomination sogdian was used in the antiquity, no in the middle ages.
But i am not sure.
Maybe the silk route was older.
I am really not sure, i don´t know much about central asia.

 

[Knight-Dragon]

Sogdiana was a satrapy of the persian empire, it was the most northern satrapy in central asia, the biggest cities were Maracanda/Samarcanda and Bujara.
I am talking about the aquemaenid (don´t know how to spell it) empire, the ancient one.

Maybe the name of the satrapy was based on the name of the tribe who lived there.

It is strange
becouse the silk route developed through the middle ages, and the denomination sogdian was used in the antiquity, no in the middle ages.
But i am not sure.
Maybe the silk route was older.
I am really not sure, i don´t know much about central asia.

Now you made me unsure. :crazyeyes But I'm pretty sure they're around during the time of the Tang. The Silk Road started around the beginning of the Christian era, once a Chinese envoy made contact with the Kushans, who had been driven to the west by the Hsiung-nu.

Maybe someone in the know can confirm for us.