Cumulative History Quiz #4

[Lucky]

Correct!

Since nobody seems to know when it left the solar system, here is a small mission summary.


Pioneer 10 was launched on March 2nd, 1972, being the fastest launched object.
It passed the moon after just 11 hours and crossed the Mars orbit after just 12 weeks.
Entered the Asteroid belt on the 15th of July, 1972, as the first man-made object.
Passed Jupiter on the 3rd of December, 1973.
Left the solar system in the year 1986.
The mission officially ended on March 31st, 1997. Half a year later it was overtaken by Voyager 2 as the farthest away object.
It is now over 12 billion kilometers (7.4 billion miles) away heading into the general direction of Aldebaran.


So, Nahuixtelotzin, your turn for a question!

 

[Nahuixtelotzin]

So, now we go back to a more remote historical era

Under the persian reign, why was the jewish community of Elephantine disliked by the native egyptian populace?

Bonus: When was their temple destroyed?

 

[Kublai-Khan]

IIRC the jews sacrificed lambs that were sacred for the egyptians.

 

[Nahuixtelotzin]

Close, but not all egyptians have lambs as sacred animals. And not all egyptians would have formed a violent mob because sheep are holy animals of some god.

 

[Mîtiu Ioan]

Originally posted by Nahuixtelotzin
Under the persian reign, why was the jewish community of Elephantine disliked by the native egyptian populace?

Bonus: When was their temple destroyed?

Because they doesn't recognize scarabeum like a "sacre creature" ?

During Vespasian Emperor rule ? ( I don't know the year ).

Regards

 

[Nahuixtelotzin]

1. nope
2. nope, you mean the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem from 70AD. I meant the destruction of the Elephantine temple.

 

[Andu Indorin]

The History Quiz seemed to be without an answer; so I've cheated a looked up the probable answer. The Temple at Elephantine was destroyed in 410 b.c. by what apparently was a religious uprising inspired by those Egyptians who worshipped Khnum, the Ram-God. And, apparently, these worshippers did take offense to the Elephantine Jewish community using rams for sacrifices, as dictated by their religious beliefs.

(I think, perhaps, Kublai-Khan should be given the honor of the next question, as his answer, while not exact, contains the key aspect of the probable truth for the destruction of the temple at Elephantine.)

 

[Nahuixtelotzin]

Yep, your answer is correct. I would have given Kublai the next question tommorrow anyway, as no one had answered it.
Your turn, Kublai

 

[Kublai-Khan]

In the sixties Castro and Che Guevara began to support guerrilla groups in Africa and Latin America sending troops to support socialist insurgencies.

Write the name of at least 3 countries of Africa where this happened and write the name of the Latin American country where Ernesto "Che Guevara" died.

 

[Michiel de Ruyter]

In Africa : Namibia, Mozambique and Zimbabwe?
Che died in Bolivia, I think.

 

[Andu Indorin]

Che died in Bolivia. As for three African "nations", I recall that Cubans were involved in Angola; I'm guessing that they were also involved in the colonial conflicts in two other Portuguese possessions, Mozambique and Guinea Bissau.

 

[Kublai-Khan]

Originally posted by Andu Indorin
Che died in Bolivia. As for three African "nations", I recall that Cubans were involved in Angola; I'm guessing that they were also involved in the colonial conflicts in two other Portuguese possessions, Mozambique and Guinea Bissau.

You are almost right, Che died in Bolivia, and Cuba was involved in Angola and Mozambique but not in Guinea Bissau.
You need one more country.

 

[Kublai-Khan]

Originally posted by Michiel de Ruyter
In Africa : Namibia, Mozambique and Zimbabwe?
Che died in Bolivia, I think.

You have 2 countries of Africa wrong.

 

[Kennelly]

As everyone said,Che died in Bolivia.

3 African countries?
Mozambique and Angola have been named. The 3rd one possibly Ethiopia?

 

[Kublai-Khan]

Originally posted by Kennelly
As everyone said,Che died in Bolivia.

3 African countries?
Mozambique and Angola have been named. The 3rd one possibly Ethiopia?

Yep, you are right.
There were also Cuban troops in Congo,Argelia and Zaire.

 

[Kublai-Khan]

Your turn to ask something Kenelly.

 

[Nahuixtelotzin]

Originally posted by Kublai-Khan


Yep, you are right.
There were also Cuban troops in Congo,Argelia and Zaire.

I love those spanish/latin americans. Some spanish encyclopedist must have made a typo centuries ago and they still confound the "l" and the "r" in Algeria

 

[Kublai-Khan]

Originally posted by Nahuixtelotzin


I love those spanish/latin americans. Some spanish encyclopedist must have made a typo centuries ago and they still confound the "l" and the "r" in Algeria

In spanish the word for Algeria is Argelia.

It was my mistake to not translate the word.

The spanish typo of the encyclopedist sounds as a very plausible theory to me.

 

[Kennelly]

Under which Egyptian Pharaoh occurred the best described conspiracy of his harem?

 

[philippe]

ramses 3