The nearest other capital
To Ottawa, Canada
Washington DC
Until 1784 music out of this city had the Fort Nashborough sound (Will adds a hint) its in Tennessee
Nashville
14th: Around 1347 the bacterium Yersinia pestis begins a European tour known by this "colorful" 2-word phrase
Black Death
This verb, the opposite of "succeed" , has made a comeback as a noun, especially following "epic"
Fail
The founder of the Mongol Empire, he was great khan from 1206 to 1227
Genghis Khan
To Canberra Australia
Wellington
The Portuguese name for this island was Ilha Formosa, "Beautiful Island"
Taiwan
13th: This document debuts in 1215 but is reissued with changes in 1216, 1217 & 1225 under a new king
The Magna Carta
PC Magazine's online encyclopedia uses these 2 antonyms for hard-to-figure-out & easy-to-figure-out passwords
Weak and Strong
Hulagu Khan's 1258 siege of this Iraqi city destroyed its standing in the Islamic world & ended the 500-year rule of the Abbasids
Baghdad
To Paris France
St. Petersburg was once called Leningrad; similarly, Volgograd was once called by this name
Stalingrad
17th: On this woman's death in 1617, a London writer referred to her as "The Virginian Woman"
Pocahontas
Katy Perry's opposites primer "Hot n Cold" rhymes, "we fight, we break up, we kiss, we" do this
make up
Empress Manduhai Khatun was known for this quality, like Solomon, & used it to unite the warring Mongols in the 15th century
wisdom
To Tokyo Japan
Seoul
Much of what makes up the Czech Republic today was once this kingdom, which was, oddly, once ruled by the Luxembourg Dynasty
Bohemia
18th: In 1723 Russia captures Baku from Persia in this leader's last great military campaign
Peter the Great
This adjective is the opposite of "attentive"; legally, it refers to one who fails to use "due care" & "ordinary prudence"
negligent
Now in ruins, Shangdu is the site of this khan's former great capital where Marco Polo visited him
Kublai
To Rabat Morocco
Lisbon
Until 1855 this Western Hemisphere capital city was known as Bytown
Ottawa
19th: This feat of engineering was completed in 1825, connecting the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean
Erie Canal
Leptodermous means having a thin skin--elephants know this similar word means the opposite
pachydermous
Batu Khan was the leader of this army that sacked & conquered westward as far as Poland & the Danube Valley
The Golden Horde