Asia
What is the most populated country in the world?
India
What is Europe's largest mountain system?
The Alps
What is the longest river in the world?
What year did the war end?
1945
What is the only continent that is also a country?
Australia
In what country is the highest mountain peak in the world?
Nepal
What is the Louvre, and where is it located?
world's largest art museum in France
What was the scramble for Africa?
Rush for European countries to claim territory in Africa
What was the event called where Jewish people were persecuted and killed?
Holocaust
What is a dynasty?
A line of rulers that succeed each other in the same family
What are the two main rivers of the Fertile Crescent?
Euphrates and Tigris
What is the midnight sun?
When the sun never sets
What are oral traditions?
information passed down through speaking
What event brought the United States into the war?
The attack at Pearl Harbor
What was the Hellenistic age?
300 year period after Alexander the Great died, when Greek culture influenced the world
What was the Khmer Empire? And which country was it located in?
Earliest known empire in Cambodia
What are the Baltic States?
Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania
What structure controls flooding for the Nile River?
Aswan High Dam
Who were the 3 main axis powers?
Germany, Italy, Japan
Who was the military hero of the French Revolution who became emperor of France?
Napoleon Bonaparte
Who was the first president of Russia?
Boris Yeltsen
Who was Denmark's longest ruling monarch?
Queen Margrethe II
Who was the person that the Great Pyramid of Giza was built for?
Pharaoh Khufu
What two cities in Japan were hit with an atomic bomb, which ended the war?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
What was the Great Famine (Holodmor)?
A man-made famine in Ukraine, caused by the Soviets forced control of food production.