Africa
Ancient civilization whose New Kingdom rulers included Ramesses the Great.
Ancient Egypt
French line of fortifications that did not account for a blitzkrieg through the Ardennes.
Maginot line
The great works of Confucianism were compiled during what period of Chinese history that ended when Qin Shi Huangdi unified China?
Warring States Period
Name this South American country whose Old Republic was dominated by an oligarchy in Sao Paulo.
Brazil
Derg regime and lost its Red Sea coastline in 1993. Eritrea declared independence from, what East African country whose capital is Addis Ababa?
Ethiopia
Name these followers of a monotheistic faith adopted by Constantine the Great.
Christianity
Conflicts that forced the Qing to give up Hong Kong, fought over an addictive drug.
Opium Wars
Name this Central American waterway that links the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
Panama Canal
Name these Dutch-speaking people of South Africa.
Boers
Name this country once led by King Zog from Tirana.
Albania
Astana is now the capital of, for ten points, what former Soviet republic, the largest landlocked country in the world?
Republic of Kazakhstan
Mountain of silver exploited by the Spanish after their conquest of modern Bolivia.
Potosi
Name this “Great” city, built several centuries ago in Masvingo Province in its namesake African country.
Zimbabwe
This Prussian military theorist described war as the “continuation of politics by other means” in his secular treatise On War.
Carl Von Clausewitz
Name this Kurdish founder of the Ayyubid dynasty, an enemy of Richard I in the Third Crusade.
Saladin
South American country named for silver. A river that borders it to the north, the Rio de la Plata, is also named for silver.
Argentina
1274 BC battle that Ramesses fought against the Hittites, the largest battle of those vehicles in history.
Battle of Kadesh
This Czech reformer was burned at the stake during the Council of Constance, despite Emperor Sigismund’s promise of safe passage and conduct.
Jan Hus
Name this Chinese city that, in 1937, was subjected to a “rape” by invading Japanese forces.
Nanking
Patrick Henry’s treasonous speech was given within his first two weeks as a member of this Virginian legislative body.
House of Burgesses