Asia
Eastern Asia's Atlantic coast is susceptible to earthquakes and volcanoes due to it's location on what?
What is the Ring of Fire?
This is the name for the ancient rulers in the Northeastern corner of Africa.
What are pharoahs?
This is the name for the imaginary lines that run north to south on a map.
What are longitude lines?
Early North African civilizations flourished along this river.
What is the Nile?
This document defines the roles, responsibilities, and duties of a country's government - the United States' was signed on September 17, 1787.
What is the Constitution?
This city is home to both Muslim and Abrahamic religions and is often called "the Holy Land."
What is Jerusalem?
This country saw a 100 day genocide of the Tutsis by the Hutus after years of ethnic conflict.
What is Rwanda?
This describes where a place is in comparison to another place.
What is relative location?
This was the most commonly used trade language throughout Central Africa in colonial times.
What is French?
This is the name of the British monarch who was on the throne during the American Revolution.
Who is King George III?
This desert spans throughout China and Mongolia and was a natural protector from outside invaders.
What is the Gobi Desert?
This is the trapping or killing of protected wild animals for the sake of profit.
What is poaching?
This is the name for the variety of flora and fauna found in an area.
What is biodiversity?
This was the name for the priests in the Aryan, or Varna, caste system.
What are Brahman?
This is the idea that the three branches of government each separately have certain powers that the other two branches cannot have to prevent one branch from becoming too powerful over the other two.
What is checks and balances?
This lawyer helped India achieve independence from Britain by practicing civil disobedience.
Who is Mahatma Gandhi?
This is the forceful act by which a nation directly controls another weaker nations people both politically, religiously, and economically.
What is colonialism?
This is the name for wildlife that is only found in their native area.
What are endemic species?
The creation of this waterway became a significant passageway connecting the Mediterranean to the Red Sea.
What is the Suez Canal?
This former slave was killed during a frenzy between British officers and American colonists that became formally known as the "Boston Massacre."
Who is Crispus Attucks?
This mountain range acts as a natural border between Europe and Asia.
What are the Ural Mountains?
This powerful civilization arose around 1050 BC, was located in the ancient city of Nubia, and were known to have traded extensively with the Egyptians.
Who are the Kushites (Ancient Kush)?
Latin for "island", this word describes an area comprised of islands, such as Indonesia.
What is insular?
This was the name for an Ancient Islamic ruler in the Muslim Empire.
What is a caliph?
This man became known for his journey throughout Boston in the middle of the night to alarm the colonists that the British were en route.
Who is Paul Revere?