In this task you will be given a text passage from a trivia quiz. You should choose the category this question belongs to from these categories: History, Science, Social Science, Fine Arts, Literature. You can only choose one category, so if in doubt, please choose the closest match.
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Question: This man reformed the fyrd militia system so that it fought in shifts, allowing for the creation of a standing army without disrupting agriculture. In addition to establishing the burhs system of forts, this man built a secret military base on the swamp island of Athelney. This mans advisors included Bishop Asser, who wrote an early biography of him. This author of the so-called doom book won control of all territory west of Watling Street when he won the Battle of Edington against Guthrum the Old. Apart from translating many religious works into English, he is best known for ending the Danegeld. For ten points, name this King of Wessex, the only English monarch with the epithet the Great.

Answer: History

Question: Ostwald ripening is a consequence of this quantity's dependence on particle size. This quantity is plotted against temperature in an Ellingham diagram, and the Margules and van Laar equations relate this quantity to the activity coefficient. Phillips and Williams modified a diagram plotting this quantity over the Faraday constant against the oxidation state, the (*) Frost diagram. The Flory-Huggins interaction parameter appears in a namesake expression giving the "partial molar" value of this quantity, also generally referred to as chemical potential. It is equivalent to the work done under constant pressure and temperature, and this quantity "of formation" is negative for thermodynamically stable compounds. For 10 points, give this thermodynamic quantity, whose change is equal to the change in enthalpy minus the product of temperature and the change in entropy, which is named after an American scientist.

Answer: Science

Question: At one battle in this country, artillery shells were transported by the bear Wojtek. At that battle, in this country, the attacking side tried to break through the Gustav Line, while under the command of Harold Alexander. M. W. Williamson led the initial attack of six Swordfish against this country's moored fleet at one battle. Admiral Cunningham and Lumley Lyster commanded British troops against this country during the first ship-to-ship naval engagement that only involved aircrafts, which was the Battle of Taranto. As part of Operation Shingle in this country, John Lucas established a beachhead near Anzio. A full scale invasion of this country followed Operation Husky. For 10 points, name this country where the Allies won the Battle of Monte Cassino and captured Rome during World War II.

Answer:
History