History Trivia Thread Reducks

[clandestino]

I think you are right about Greenland.

That would be my guess anyway.

[Viking]

Name one place where the white man arrived before the present day indigenous people. I know of two.

Cape Town?

Reached by the Dutch before the Bantu tribes, although I've always been somewhat dubious about the claim that the Khoisan peoples weren't living their at that time either.

Southern Greenland?

I believe the natives may have migrated south to the vicinity of the Viking settlements.

You got both.

In the cape there were Bantu peoples in the region, the main issue however was that they were not settled farmers. Bantu peoples did not have agriculture which suited the climate. The Dutch, however, did. Eventually European agriculture allowed Bantu settlement.

In Greenland the Thule people arrived in Greenland after the Vikings. They were probably driven by same climate changes which were one of the causes of the fall of norse settlement in greenland.

[Agelastus]

Since its about time I retired for the night/morning, and somebody ( ) complained about me hogging the thread earlier, I yield the floor to Clandestino.

[clandestino]

Open floor.

[Caliga]

Diego Suarez is at the Northern tip of Madagascar. There'd have been fighting further south as the Vichy French defended the capital at Tananarive.

Yeah, I know where it is, and while I think there was Vichy resistance at the capital I don't think it was serious... and I said "significant" battle in my followup (but admittedly not in the original question).  To this day there are still partially sunken Vichy/British ships in Diego Suarez harbor.  But in either case, Madagascar is definitely correct as even Diego Suarez is a bit further south than New Guinea.

[Grey Fox]

Since its about time I retired for the night/morning, and somebody ( ) complained about me hogging the thread earlier, I yield the floor to Clandestino.

Not you, Spellus was.

[Admiral Yi]

2 week rule.

Which country had the first female foreign minister?

[Barrister]

2 week rule.

Which country had the first female foreign minister?

Israel?

[Admiral Yi]

Israel?

Nope.

Goldie was ambassador to the USSR after independence; did she ever hold foreign minister?

[Barrister]

Israel?

Nope.

Goldie was ambassador to the USSR after independence; did she ever hold foreign minister?

She did.  Just looked it up.  1956-1966.

[jimmy olsen]

I keep reading this thread title as "History Trivia Thread Rednecks".

[Syt]

I keep reading this thread title as "History Trivia Thread Rednecks".

I was just about to post that. Scary.

[Admiral Yi]

Ana Pauka of Rumania was the world's first female foreign minister.  Appointed in 1948, purged shortly thereafter.

[Octavian]

In 1794 Sweden, as part of a general crackdown on freedom of the press, banned two specific documents.

Which documents?

[frunk]

Thomas Paine's The Rights of Man, and the Declaration of Independence?