World Geography
Utah Native American History
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Borderlands
100

I am the only country that sits North, South, East, and West of Greenland.

What is Iceland?

100

These groups are the 5 Native American tribes here in Utah

Who are the Paiute, Ute, Goshute, Shoshone, and Navajo

100

The name for the path between Europe and China, along which goods were traded.

What is the Silk Road?

100

This country officially became the world's most populous nation again in 2023, surpassing China.

What is India?

100

I am the treaty that created the border fence between Texas and Mexico, annexing Texas from the Mexican state of Tamaulipas. 

What is the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo?

200

I am the desert with the highest recorded temperatures on Earth, including 134 F in July 1913. 

What is Death Valley, USA?
200

This is the largest Native American reservation in Utah, covering parts of southeastern Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico.

What is the Navajo Nation?

200

The system of class levels used within Hindu cultures.

What is the caste system?

200

This 2023 economic challenge, marked by skyrocketing debt levels, is affecting low- and middle-income countries, limiting their ability to address poverty and climate change.

What is the global debt crisis?

200

I am a city described by Anzaldua in this quote: “Huitzilopochtli, the God of War, guided them to the place where an eagle with a writhing serpent in its beak perched on a cactus.”

What is Mexico City?

300
I am the smallest country in the world with a landmass of 0.44 square kilometers. 
What is Vatican City?
300

These were the first known inhabitants of Utah, leaving behind artifacts such as petroglyphs and pictographs in places like Nine Mile Canyon.

Who are the Freemont People?

300

Sunni and Shi’a Muslims disagree that this person should have succeeded.

Who is Muhammad?

300

Where are the 2028 summer Olympics?

Where is Los Angeles?

300

I am an area near Tijuana on the American side of the border where refugees fleeing from Mexico to the US would get attacked by Mexican robbers.

What is Smuggler’s Canyon?

400
I have the cleanest air and the happiest people on Earth. 
What is Finland?
400

This ancient Native American culture, known for their cliff dwellings in southern Utah, disappeared mysteriously around 1300 CE

Who are the Ancestral Puebloans (or Anasazi)?

400

This area was known as the “land between two rivers” and was the “cradle of civilization”.

What is Mesopotamia?

400

This global economic trend, which started in 2022, has continued into 2024, as countries around the world deal with rising interest rates and persistent inflation.

What is stagflation?

400

I am an example of a company that ran a maquiladora, or a factory in Mexico that was the second greatest source of US dollars.

What are American Motors, IT&T, and Du Pont?

500
I am the proud horned creature that serves as the national animal of Scotland. 
What is the unicorn?
500

The Native American tribes of Utah have lived in the region for thousands of years, long before it became a U.S. state in this year.

What is 1896?

500

This man founded the Frankish Holy Roman Empire and was know for his support of learning.

Who is Charlemagne?

500

In late 2023, this global tech giant was hit with a major cyberattack that compromised data from millions of users, prompting calls for stronger cybersecurity laws worldwide.

What is Microsoft?

500

I am a religious symbol that Anzaldua mentions prayers to throughout the chapter, taken from the Aztec and Spanish cultures and adapted into a well-known religious symbol on the border of Mexico and Southern United States.

What is the Virgen de Guadalupe?

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