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• Oldest Temples in India: facts and a 5-question quizWhich ancient temples still stand? Pin five of the oldest surviving temples in India.
• Hill Forts of Rajasthan: facts and a 5-question quizSix forts are on the UNESCO list in Rajasthan. Pin five of them, from a Rajput stronghold to a desert golden fort.
• Ancient Ports of India: facts and a 5-question quizWhere Roman gold arrived and Indian ships sailed: five ancient ports of India's kings and traders.
• Birthplaces of Famous Queens of India: facts and a 5-question quizWhere were India's great warrior queens born? Pin five birthplaces, from Varanasi to Karnataka.
• Key Sites of the Revolt of 1857: facts and a 5-question quizFrom Meerut to Jhansi: pin five places that mattered in the great revolt of 1857.
• Cities of the Indus Valley Civilisation: facts and a 5-question quizFive Harappan cities, from Harappa itself to the water-engineered Dholavira.
• The Mauryan Empire Quiz: facts and a 5-question quizChandragupta, Chanakya and Ashoka: a mixed quiz on India's first great empire.
• Richest Temples in India: facts and a 5-question quizWhich temples hold the biggest offerings and treasures? Test what you know about India's richest temples.
• Forts of Shivaji and the Marathas: facts and a 5-question quizForts that built an empire: five hill forts linked to Chhatrapati Shivaji.
• European Trading Companies in India: facts and a 5-question quizPortuguese, Dutch, English and French: where they settled and in what order.
• Places in Mahatma Gandhi's Life: facts and a 5-question quizFrom Porbandar to Dandi: pin five places that shaped Mahatma Gandhi and the freedom movement.
• The Gupta Golden Age Quiz: facts and a 5-question quizScience, art and rulers of the Guptas: five questions on the so-called golden age.
• UNESCO Rock-Cut Caves of India: facts and a 5-question quizCarved from solid rock: pin five famous cave sites of India, from Buddhist murals to a giant Shiva temple.
• Decisive Battles of Medieval India: facts and a 5-question quizFive battlefields that changed who ruled India, from 1191 to 1576.
• Birthplaces of Freedom Fighters: facts and a 5-question quizWhere were they born? Pin five birthplaces of India's freedom movement leaders.
• The Chola Empire Quiz: facts and a 5-question quizTemples, navies and bronzes: a mixed quiz on the Chola dynasty of South India.
• UNESCO Heritage Temples of India: facts and a 5-question quizFive temple sites on the World Heritage list: a Chola giant, a sun chariot, erotic sculpture, a ruined capital and Chalukya cradles.
• Battles That Built British India: facts and a 5-question quizFive battles where the East India Company defeated Indian rulers, from 1757 to 1799.
• Indian Independence Timeline: facts and a 5-question quizFrom the Congress to the Constitution: put the milestones of the freedom movement in order.
• The Vijayanagara Empire Quiz: facts and a 5-question quizHampi, Krishnadevaraya and the fall at Talikota: a mixed quiz on the last great Hindu empire of the south.
• Buddhist Sites of India: facts and a 5-question quizWhere Buddhism began and flourished: five great Buddhist sites in India.
• Great Forts of India: facts and a 5-question quizFive forts, five dynasties: from Golconda's diamonds to Gwalior's cliff.
• Slogans of the Freedom Struggle Quiz: facts and a 5-question quizWho said it? Famous slogans of India's freedom movement.
• Mughal Emperors in Order: facts and a 5-question quizFrom Babur to Aurangzeb: put the Mughal emperors and events in order.
• Jain Pilgrimage Sites of India: facts and a 5-question quizMarble temples and hill pilgrimages: five important Jain sites in India.
• Scholars and Scientists of Ancient India: facts and a 5-question quizZero, surgery, grammar and astronomy: who was behind these Indian firsts?
• Stepwells of India: facts and a 5-question quizWells you walk down into: pin five famous baolis and vavs.
• Historic Sikh Gurdwaras: facts and a 5-question quizFive key sites in Sikh history, from the Golden Temple to Hazur Sahib.
• Madinah and the first battles: facts and a 5-question quizFrom the Hijra to the first battles: five places in and around Madinah.
• Battles of the Crusades: facts and a 5-question quizFive decisive Crusade battlefields, from Anatolia to the Galilee. Can you pin each one?
• Mughal monuments of Delhi and Agra: facts and a 5-question quizRed sandstone, white marble and Mughal gardens: five monuments of Delhi and Agra.
• Great cities of al-Andalus: facts and a 5-question quizCórdoba's palaces, Seville's towers and Granada's Alhambra: five jewels of al-Andalus.
• Ottoman capitals and princes' cities: facts and a 5-question quizFrom a small Anatolian town to Constantinople: the capitals and the princes' cities of the Ottomans.
• Imperial cities of Morocco: facts and a 5-question quizFez, Marrakesh, Rabat, Meknes and Tetouan: the cities of Morocco's dynasties.
• Mughal Lahore: facts and a 5-question quizLahore's Mughal fort, gardens and mosques, placed on the map.
• Cities of the Third Crusade: facts and a 5-question quizThe Third Crusade was fought over coastal cities. Place five of them on the map.
• Makkah and the sacred sites around it: facts and a 5-question quizThe sacred geography of Makkah and its surroundings: five places every pilgrim hears about.
• Umayyad palaces and cities: facts and a 5-question quizDesert palaces, bath houses and planned towns left by the Umayyads.
• Early Muslim cities of Tunisia and Algeria: facts and a 5-question quizThe first Muslim cities of Tunisia, from Kairouan to Mahdia.
• Birthplaces of the great hadith and tafsir scholars: facts and a 5-question quizFive towns that gave Islam its great hadith collectors and its first great historian.
• Turning points from Seljuk to Ottoman Anatolia and the Balkans: facts and a 5-question quizManzikert, Ankara, Varna: five turning points on the road from Seljuks to Ottomans.
• Great historic cities of the Middle East: facts and a 5-question quizFive of the oldest living cities of the Middle East.
• Ghurid and Delhi Sultanate landmarks: facts and a 5-question quizFrom Ghor's minaret to Delhi's towers: places that mark the Delhi Sultanate.
• Places of the Bengal Sultanate: facts and a 5-question quizThe capitals and key towns of the Bengal Sultanate.
• The Bahmani and Deccan sultanates: facts and a 5-question quizFive capitals of the Bahmani sultanate and its successors.
• The Rightly Guided Caliphs Quiz: facts and a 5-question quizAbu Bakr, Umar, Uthman and Ali: a mixed quiz on the first four caliphs.
• Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphs Quiz: facts and a 5-question quizDamascus to Baghdad: five questions on the two great caliphates.
• Muslim Scientists and Scholars Quiz: facts and a 5-question quizAlgebra, optics, medicine and astronomy: who made these discoveries?
• Great Mosques of History Quiz: facts and a 5-question quizDome of the Rock, Cordoba, Hagia Sophia, Badshahi: a mixed quiz on famous mosques.
• Crusades Timeline Quiz: facts and a 5-question quizFrom Clermont to Acre: put the events of the Crusades in order.
• Muslim Spain Timeline Quiz: facts and a 5-question quizTariq to Granada: five questions on eight centuries of Al-Andalus.
• Muslim Rule in India: Timeline Quiz: facts and a 5-question quizFrom Muhammad bin Qasim to the Mughals: key events in order.
• Crusader castles and strongholds: facts and a 5-question quizHuge stone fortresses once held the Crusader states together. Locate five of them.
• Treaties and expeditions of the Prophet's final years: facts and a 5-question quizTreaties, sieges and expeditions of the Prophet's last years, placed on the map.
• Abbasid capitals: facts and a 5-question quizThe cities from which the Abbasid caliphs ruled, from Merv to Samarra.
• Landings and first conquests in Iberia: facts and a 5-question quizFrom the first raid to the first cities: how Muslim armies entered Iberia.
• Birthplaces of Islam's scientists and philosophers: facts and a 5-question quizWhere Razi, Farabi, al-Khwarizmi, Ibn Sina, and al-Ghazali came from or ended up.
• Campaigns of Suleiman the Magnificent: facts and a 5-question quizBelgrade, Rhodes, Mohács, Buda and Szigetvár: place the campaigns of Suleiman the Magnificent.
• Lesser-known Islamic cities of Syria, Iraq and Anatolia: facts and a 5-question quizBeyond the famous capitals: five Islamic-era cities of Syria, Iraq and Anatolia.
• From Babur to Akbar and Sher Shah: facts and a 5-question quizThree rulers, five places: battles, a tomb and a short-lived capital.
• Sultanate-era mosques of Bengal: facts and a 5-question quizFive terracotta, brick and stone mosques of Sultanate Bengal in Bangladesh.
• Mughals in the Deccan: facts and a 5-question quizThe long Mughal campaigns in the Deccan, from Talikota's aftermath to Aurangzeb's grave.
• The Prophet's Life: Timeline Quiz: facts and a 5-question quizHijrah, Badr, Hudaybiyyah, Makkah: put the key events in order.
• Ottoman Sultans Quiz: facts and a 5-question quizFrom Osman to the end of the sultanate: mixed questions on the Ottoman Empire.
• Muslim Travellers and Geographers Quiz: facts and a 5-question quizIbn Battuta, al-Idrisi and others: who travelled where?
• 13th-century battles: Mamluks, Mongols and Crusaders: facts and a 5-question quizIn the 1200s the Mamluks stopped both the Mongols and the last Crusades. Find the battlefields and ports.
• Battles and sieges of the conquest of the Levant: facts and a 5-question quizFive battles and sieges that decided the fate of Syria and Palestine in the 630s.
• Muslim rule in southern Europe: Sicily, Italy and France: facts and a 5-question quizMuslim rule reached Sicily, southern Italy and France. Place five of its footholds.
• Almoravid, Almohad and Nasrid turning points in Spain: facts and a 5-question quizFive battles and conquests that shifted the balance between Muslim and Christian Spain.
• Observatories and centres of learning: facts and a 5-question quizObservatories, hospitals and paper towns: where medieval Muslim science happened.
• Ottomans on the Danube and in Hungary: facts and a 5-question quizDanube forts, Hungarian towns and the gates of Vienna.
• Forts and halting places of the north-west frontier: facts and a 5-question quizFortresses and halting places guarding the road from Kabul to the Punjab.
• Landmarks of Old Dhaka: facts and a 5-question quizForts, caravanserai and palaces of Old Dhaka.
• Regional sultanates and coastal Islam in India: facts and a 5-question quizMalwa, Gujarat, Jaunpur and the coast: regional sultanates and early mosques.
• Companions of the Prophet Quiz: facts and a 5-question quizBilal, Khalid, Salman and others: who were they and what did they do?
• Mongols and the Muslim World Quiz: facts and a 5-question quizBaghdad 1258 and Ain Jalut 1260: mixed questions on the Mongol invasions.
• Places of Salahuddin Ayyubi: facts and a 5-question quizFollow Salahuddin Ayyubi from his birthplace to the cities he held and the fortresses he built.
• Battles on the Persian front: facts and a 5-question quizThe fall of the Sasanian Empire in five places, from al-Hira to Nahavand.
• Battles that shaped the Umayyad and Abbasid world: facts and a 5-question quizFive battles from Tours to Talas that shaped the Umayyad and Abbasid worlds.
• Southern Spanish cities that fell to Castile and Aragon: facts and a 5-question quizSouthern Spanish and Balearic cities and the campaigns that took them from Muslim rule.
• Places on famous medieval Muslim journeys: facts and a 5-question quizIbn Battuta, Ibn Fadlan and Zheng He: five stops on great medieval journeys.
• Mediterranean naval battles and sieges of the Ottoman age: facts and a 5-question quizPreveza, Lepanto, Djerba, Malta and Navarino: five sea fights and sieges of the Ottoman age.
• Mahmud of Ghazni and the road to India: facts and a 5-question quizThe Ghaznavid road into the subcontinent, from Afghanistan to Multan.
• Mughal Bengal: capitals, forts and ports: facts and a 5-question quizCapitals, forts and ports of Mughal Bengal.
• Hyderabad, Mysore, Bhopal and the Company era: facts and a 5-question quizA minaret city, a tiger's capital and the battles that opened the Company era.
• Garrison cities and capitals of the early caliphate: facts and a 5-question quizThe camp cities and capitals the early caliphs built or took over.
• Medieval Muslim trade hubs: Silk Road and Indian Ocean: facts and a 5-question quizGulf ports, Silk Road oases and Red Sea harbours that moved the medieval world's goods.
• Cradles of the Maghreb's dynasties: facts and a 5-question quizVillages, oases and battlefields where Maghreb dynasties began.
• Ottoman ports and islands from the Aegean to Aceh: facts and a 5-question quizOttoman ports and islands stretched from the Aegean to Sumatra.
• Sufi shrines and saints of the subcontinent: facts and a 5-question quizShrines that draw millions every year, from Ajmer to Sehwan.
• Bengal's heritage and turning points: facts and a 5-question quizA mosque city, an ancient fortress, a Nawabi capital and a battlefield: Bengal's heritage.
• Heritage of Arabia and Yemen: facts and a 5-question quizFrom Yemen's tower houses to Nabataean tombs: heritage places of Arabia.
• Capitals of the Central and West Asian dynasties: facts and a 5-question quizCapitals of the great dynasties of Persia, Central Asia and Anatolia.
• Islamic heritage of the Sahel and West Africa: facts and a 5-question quizMud-brick mosques, gold trade and great manuscript libraries in West Africa and the Nile.
• Seljuk heritage of Anatolia: facts and a 5-question quizCarved portals, hospitals and caravanserai: the heritage of the Anatolian Seljuks.
• Sindh's early Islamic sites, tombs and forts: facts and a 5-question quizDebal, Mansura, Thatta and more: the early Islamic story of Sindh.
• Early Islam's reach: Ethiopia, Najran, Ayla, Armenia and Bahrain: facts and a 5-question quizWhere early Muslims met Christian rulers and communities: five stops beyond Makkah and Madinah.
• Algeria's Islamic heritage: ports, capitals and a famous retreat: facts and a 5-question quizPorts, capitals and a famous retreat: five places in Algeria's Islamic history.
• Cities on Anatolia's Ottoman and Seljuk frontiers: facts and a 5-question quizCities on the eastern and western frontiers of the Seljuk and Ottoman worlds.
• Ottoman cities of the Balkans: facts and a 5-question quizBridges, bazaars and mosques left by Ottoman rule in the Balkans.