It's where the ancestors of today's Native Americans lived before coming to the Americas.
What is Asia?
100
It's a kind of ship beginning with the letter f and ending with the letter e.
What is a frigate?
100
He's the most famous writer in the English language.
Who is William Shakespeare?
100
He's the most famous writer from Spain.
Who is Cervantes?
100
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They were the Incan messengers who ran at high elevations to bring messages from one part of the empire to another.
Who were the chasquis?
200
The cousin of Hernan Cortes.
Who was Francisco Pizarro?
200
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It's the tallest mountain range in South America.
What are the Andes Mountains?
200
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It's natural rubber that begins as a liquid from a tree.
What is latex?
200
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It's the largest city in Turkey.
What is Istanbul?
200
It's a long, narrow country along the western coast of South America.
What is Chile?
300
It was used by the Inca for counting.
What is the quipu?
300
They're blood-sucking animals still used in some hospitals.
What are leeches?
300
It was the class at the bottom of Japanese society during the Middle Ages.
What is the merchant class?
300
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"Land of the Rising Sun"
What is Japan?
300
A family of rulers in China in which power was passed down from father to son for generations.
What is a dynasty?
400
An Asian nation so large it's sometimes called a "sub-continent".
What is India?
400
It's a government that's divided into departments, each of which specializes in a specific area of work.
What is a bureaucracy?
400
A region that has certain kinds of plants.
What is a vegetation zone?
400
They're families of people who are related by blood or marriage.
What are clans?
400
The piece of land where the religion of Islam started.
What is the Arabian Peninsula?
500
The continent where the religion of Christianity was started.
What is Asia?
500
They're called codices (or, singular, codex)
What are the books written by the Maya and Aztecs?
500
They are "floating gardens" on which the Aztecs grew crops.
What are chinampas?
500
It's how high any land is above the level of the sea.
What is elevation?
500
The Maya produced a type of chocolate beverage from this plant.