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History Quiz!

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  • Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    What was the first country that introduced a fully decimal currency?


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,609 Mod ✭✭✭✭pinkypinky


    USA?

    Genealogy Forum Mod



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,538 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    France after the revolution ?


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    pinkypinky wrote: »
    USA?

    France after the revolution ?

    Neither


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,639 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    Sweden? ( As the French Marshal Barnadotte ruled that country)


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  • Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Manach wrote: »
    Sweden? ( As the French Marshal Barnadotte ruled that country)

    No. Earlier.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,108 ✭✭✭pedroeibar1


    Egypt? They worked on base 10 and our numbers are based on Arabic - the number of angles in each number. Hard to 'draw' it but write each letter using straight lines and you can see it. It also is why Continentals write '1' differently to us and also why they cross their sevens.


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Egypt? They worked on base 10 and our numbers are based on Arabic - the number of angles in each number. Hard to 'draw' it but write each letter using straight lines and you can see it. It also is why Continentals write '1' differently to us and also why they cross their sevens.

    No. 18th century.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,284 ✭✭✭dubhthach


    Russia?


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    dubhthach wrote: »
    Russia?

    Correct.

    1. Russia 1701 (Peter the Great)

    Followed by:
    2. USA 1787
    3. France 1795
    4. Not sure, maybe Netherlands 1817.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,284 ✭✭✭dubhthach


    What war led to the Philippines becoming a colonial possession of the United States of America?


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    dubhthach wrote: »
    What war led to the Philippines becoming a colonial possession of the United States of America?

    Spanish-American War 1898


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    What was the last country in Europe to grant citizenship to Jews for the first time?


  • Registered Users Posts: 282 ✭✭patsman07


    feargale wrote: »
    What was the last country in Europe to grant citizenship to Jews?

    Germany after WW2?


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,639 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    Russia?


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    patsman07 wrote: »
    Germany after WW2?

    Strictly speaking you may be correct (if not Austria) but not what I'm looking for. If you don't mind I've slightly reworded the question.

    Manach wrote: »
    Russia?

    No.


  • Registered Users Posts: 25,907 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    The question is more complex than it seems.

    In the first place, citizenship isn't a simple binary. A "second-class citizen', subject to various legal disabilities or restrictions, is still a citizen. Jewish emancipation in any country is generally dated from the date when the last legal disabilities were removed - e.g. in the UK Jews were permitted to enter Parliament in 1858 - but in fact Jews may have been citizens of the country concerned from long before that, or may never have been excluded from citizenship. So we need to clarify whether the question is seeking the country which last admitted Jews to citizenship, or which last removed legal restrictions or limitations affecting the citizenship of Jews?

    The other point is that Jews frequently suffered from restrictions/disabilities which were not specifically aimed at Jews, and which affected other groups as well. For example the laws which kept Jews our of Parliament were not aimed at Jews; they required the taking of a religious oath in Trinitarian form, and thus operated to exclude everyone but Trinitarian Christians. Even today a Jew cannot succeed to the throne of the United Kingdom, but this is not because they are Jewish so much as because they are not Protestant. Until I think 1868 a Jew could not become a Romanian citizen (and from that date to 1923 could only become a Romanian citizen by special naturalisation) but, again, this was because of a law which excluded non-Christians (and which may have been aimed at Muslims/Turks as much as at Jews).

    So, I think we need to clarify the question. Are we specifically looking at laws which target Jews, or at wider laws which affect Jews among others? And are we looking at laws which exclude from citizenship entirely, or which restict or limit the rights and privileges that other citizens enjoy?


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