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The Universal Encyclopedia — Ask Anything

Universal Encyclopedia

The Universal Encyclopedia — Ask Anything

Every empire, inventor, civilization, people and turning point in the Bureau’s encyclopedia — each framed as the question you would actually ask, answered in one paragraph, with the full file behind it.

Empires & Dynasties

63 questions

What was the Abbasid Caliphate?What was the Aksumite Empire?What was the Ashanti Empire?What was the Austro-Hungarian Empire?What was the Benin Empire?What was the British Empire?What was the Bulgarian Empire?What was Cahokia?What was the Carolingian Empire?What was Carthage?What was the Chola Empire?What was the Caliphate of Córdoba?What was the Dutch Empire?What was the Ethiopian Empire?What was the Fatimid Caliphate?What was the French Empire?What was the German Empire?What was the Ghana Empire?What was Great Zimbabwe?What was the Gupta Empire?What was the Han Dynasty?What was the Holy Roman Empire?What was the Empire of Japan?What was the Kanem-Bornu Empire?What was the Khmer Empire?What was the Kingdom of Kongo?What was the Majapahit Empire?What was the Mali Empire?What was the Ming Dynasty?What was the Moroccan Empire?What was the Mughal Empire?What was the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth?What was the Portuguese Empire?What was the Qing Dynasty?What was the Russian Empire?What was the Safavid Empire?What was the Sasanian Empire?What was the Song Dynasty?What was the Songhai Empire?What was the Spanish Empire?What was the Srivijaya Empire?What was the Swedish Empire?What was the Tang Dynasty?What was the Tongan Empire?What was the Venetian Empire?What was the Wari Empire?What was the Yuan Dynasty?What was the Zulu Kingdom?What was the Byzantine Empire?What was the Persian Empire?What was the Roman Empire?What was the Ottoman Empire?What were the greatest empires in history?What was the Kingdom of Kush?What was the Hittite Empire?What was the Toltec Empire?What was the Lunda Empire?What was the Durrani Empire?What was the Sikh Empire?What is the Alaouite dynasty?What was the Idrisid dynasty?What was the Marinid dynasty?What was the Saadi dynasty?

Inventors & Scientists

36 questions

Civilizations

14 questions

What was ancient China?What was the Egyptian civilization?What was the Inca civilization?What was the Indus Valley civilization?What was the Maya civilization?What was Mesopotamia?What were the great civilizations of history?Why was ancient Egypt a superpower?What did ancient Greece invent?What was Phoenicia?What was the Minoan civilization?Who were the Etruscans?What was the Olmec civilization?What was the Mycenaean civilization?

Peoples

15 questions

Who were the Arabs?Who are the Chinese?Who were the first Christians?Who are the Europeans?Who are the Indians?Who are the Iranians?Who are the Japanese?Who are the Jews?Who were the first Australians?Who are the Kurds?Who are the Yoruba?Who are the Quechua?Who are the Māori?Who are the Roma?Who are the Amazigh (Berbers)?

Persons & Powers

37 questions

Events & Turning Points

28 questions

What was the first university in the world?What was the House of Wisdom?What was the atomic bomb?What happened on September 11, 2001?What was the Arab Spring?What happened in Crimea in 2014?What is the Gaza war?What was ISIS?What was the COVID era?What was the Casablanca Conference of 1943?What caused the 2008 financial crisis?What was the dot-com crash?What was the Black Death?How did Christianity conquer Rome?How did Islam expand so fast?What was the Industrial Revolution?What has defined the 21st century so far?What was the fall of Constantinople in 1453?What was the Berlin Conference of 1884?What was the French Revolution of 1789?What was American independence in 1776?What was the Partition of India in 1947?What was the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962?What was the Moon landing of 1969?What was Moroccan independence in 1956?What was the Battle of the Three Kings?When did Morocco recognize American independence?What was the Green March?

Inventions & Ideas

35 questions

Who invented the wheel?How did humans tame fire?What was the Bronze Age?What was the Iron Age?What was the Neolithic Revolution?Who invented writing?Who invented paper?What did the printing press change?Who invented the compass?Who invented gunpowder?What was the steam engine?Who discovered electricity?Who invented the telephone?Who invented the airplane?Who invented the internet?What is artificial intelligence?What was the Space Age?Who discovered DNA?Who invented zero?Who invented the calendar?Who invented vaccination?Who invented anesthesia?Who discovered X-rays?Who invented radio?Who invented television?What was the transistor?Who invented the laser?How does GPS work?What is CRISPR?Who invented photography?Who invented the battery?Who invented the seismograph?What was the cotton gin?Who invented the light bulb?Who invented the mechanical clock?