Do you really know how our world was shaped?

It's a simple question. But the answer isn't found in memorizing a few famous names, Washington, Caesar, Napoleon, and calling it a day. Real history doesn't live in the headlines of its own time. It lives in the margins. In the uneasy compromises. In the battles that could have gone the other way. In the letters, the laws, the inventions, and the small decisions that changed everything.

Big names are easy to remember. But the real test of history lies in the finer points.

That's why we've gone back more than forty centuries. We've condensed 4,000 years, from the pharaohs of Ancient Egypt building pyramids along the Nile, all the way up to the Space Age, when human beings first looked back at Earth from the darkness beyond the sky, into 24 tough questions.

This is not a casual quiz. You won't find questions like "Who was the first president of the United States?" or "Which country gave the world pizza?" The questions here are different. They are drawn from the fault lines of history: the turning points, the lesser-known figures, the specific dates and documents and battles that most people skim past on their way to the next big story.

We don't expect everyone to finish.

In fact, most people drop out before they even hit the Renaissance. Some get frustrated. Some realize they've been leaning on the same few famous names for their entire understanding of the past. Some simply didn't expect the questions to reach this deep.

And that's fine. History is not a popularity contest. It's a discipline of patience, curiosity, and memory.

But a small number of people keep going. They read the question twice. They trust what they've learned, not just from school, but from books, documentaries, conversations, and quiet curiosity over the years. They don't guess wildly. They connect dots. They remember the detail that everyone else forgot.

Do you possess the memory of a true scholar?
Or are you just making educated guesses?

There's only one way to know for sure.

No search engines. No asking a friend. No second-guessing yourself into a different answer. Just you, 4,000 years of human history, and 24 questions waiting to be answered.

You can walk away now, like most people do.
Or you can sit down, focus, and prove that your historical knowledge is not a surface-level party trick, but something real.

Prove your historical knowledge begins right here.

Which empire’s elite fighting force was known as the Janissaries?