Historical | MCQs

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The U-2 incident was a confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union that began with the shooting down of a U.S.

U-2 reconnaissance plane over the Soviet Union in 1960 and that caused the collapse of a summit conference in Paris between the United States,

The Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and France.

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Martello Towers, sometimes known simply as Martellos

Martellos are small defensive forts

Martellos were built across the British Empire during the 19th century, from the time of the French Revolutionary Wars onwards

 the tower was completed in 1565. 

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Armistice ended fighting of: Ottoman Empire and the Allies

Held: October 1918

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Odoacer deposed the last Western Roman emperor, Romulus Augustulus, in 476 AD

Marking the traditional fall of the Western Roman Empire.

He was a Germanic barbarian king who took control of Italy. 

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The Kushan tribe originally settled in Northwest China.

They were part of the Yuezhi confederation, a group of tribes.

The Yuezhi migrated from the Chinese borderlands, specifically modern Gansu and Xinjiang.

After their migration, they established the Kushan Empire in regions including Northwest India, Afghanistan, and parts of Central Asia.

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Carl Brockelmann is the author of "History of the Islamic Peoples".

He was a professor at the universities in Breslau, Berlin, and, from 1903, Konigsberg.

He is best known for his multi-volume Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur (first published 1898–1902) ('History of Arabic literature') 

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The Berlin Wall was built in 1961 by East Germany to stop mass defections to the West.

It became a symbol of the Cold War division between communist East and capitalist West.

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The Great Mosque in Damascus, also known as the Umayyad Mosque, is the earliest surviving stone mosque built by the Umayyad Caliph Al Waleed I (Waleed bin Abdul Malik) between 705 and 715 AD.

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The Battle of Khaybar was fought in the year 628 between Muslims and the Jews living in the oasis of Khaybar, located 150 kilometers (93 mi) from Medina, Saudi Arabia. 

This battle was fought in Sevent Hijri.

Muslims won the battle.

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• The relatives of the Prophet (PBUH) in the first migration to Abyssinia were: Usman (R.A) and Ruqayya (R.A)
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• The first migration of the Companions and relatives of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ was to Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
  
• The Migration to Abyssinia Dated 6 BH (613/14 CE).
• Start date: 613 AD
• Participants: A group of twelve men and four women
• Also known as:Hijrah il-al-Habshah 
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• Abdul bin Zubair (R.A) was the first child born after the migration (hijrah)