Africa
The development of which technology allowed Europeans to overpower African tribes?
What is the machine gun? (Maxim/Gatling)
In which year did Israel declare independence?
When was 1948?
Which animal is considered sacred in India?
What is the cow?
What form of ruling system did China use during the Imperial Period (221 BC - 1911)?
What is a dynasty?
What is the largest country in the world by land area?
What is Russia?
Which Rwandan ethnic group only made up 1% of Rwanda’s population and were also targeted by the Hutus during the 1994 genocide?
Who are the Twa?
Which Palestinian territory did Israel build a separation barrier around?
What is the West Bank?
East Pakistan changed their name to what modern nation in 1971?
What is Bangladesh?
Who led a Communist revolution in China in 1949?
Who is Mao Zedong?
What is the name of the largest ocean in the world?
What is the Pacific Ocean?
What is the special title given to oral historians and sacred storytellers in pre-colonial Africa?
What are griots?
Who was the first nation to recognize Israel as an independent state?
What is the United States?
Under what charges was Gandhi arrested in 1922 for inciting rebellion against the British government?
What is sedition?
What does PRC stand for?
What is the People's Republic of China?
Name one of the nine countries that the largest rainforest in the world is located in.
What is Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, French Guiana, Guyana, or Suriname?
Which ancient kingdom was located in what is now known as Ethiopia?
What is the Kingdom of Aksum/Axum?
What is the name given to the mass displacement and dispossession of Palestinians during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war? (hint: five letters long)
What is the Nakba?
Name a form of nonviolent resistance that Gandhi used to protest British Imperialism?
What are marches/hunger strikes/boycotts?
What is the capital of North Korea?
What is Pyongyang?
What Cape sits at the tip of Africa?
What is the Cape of Good Hope?
Which bitter compound was used to treat mosquitos and is often found in tonic water?
What is quinine?
What is the name of the ancient part of Jerusalem that has extreme religious significance and a designated quarter for each of the Armenians, Christians, Jews, and Muslims?
What is the Old City?
Which Hindu god of wisdom, success, and luck, is the son of Shiva and is characterized by his elephant head?
What is Ganesh?
What type of regions are Hong Kong and Macau?
What are special administrative regions?
What is the name of the driest continent on Earth?
What is Antarctica?