Trade in the Indian Ocean
This large body of water connected Africa, the Middle East, India, and Asia for trade.
Indian Ocean
This handheld device combines a phone, internet access, and apps into one portable tool used daily by billions.
Smartphone
This capital city of France is home to the Eiffel Tower.
Paris
The most recent space misson
Artemis II
This monotreme native to Australia uses electroreceptors in its bill to detect prey underwater and is one of the few egg-laying mammals.
Platypus
This spice-rich country was a major hub of Indian Ocean trade for goods like cotton, pepper, and textiles.
India
This concept in computing refers to systems that can learn, adapt, and improve from data without being explicitly programmed for every task.
AI
This capital of Japan was formerly known as Edo before being renamed in 1868.
Tokyo
This was the first artificial satellite launched into space in 1957 by the Soviet Union.
Sputnik 1
This deep-sea shark species can unhinge its jaw and has been nicknamed the “living fossil” due to its primitive features.
Goblin Shark
This valuable spice, often called “black gold,” was heavily traded from India and Southeast Asia.
Black Pepper
This technology allows devices to communicate wirelessly over short distances using radio waves, commonly used for headphones and speakers.
Bluetooth
This capital of Canada lies along the Ottawa River and borders the province of Quebec.
Ottawa
This spacecraft, launched in 1977, has traveled farther from Earth than any other human-made object.
Voyager 1
This amphibian retains its juvenile features into adulthood (a trait called neoteny) and can regenerate entire limbs and organs.
Axolotl
This religion spread widely through Indian Ocean trade and is now one of the largest in the world.
Islam
This distributed digital ledger technology underpins cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin.
Blockchain
This capital of Australia is located in the Australian Capital Territory and was selected as a compromise between Sydney and Melbourne.
Canberra
The Apollo mission sandwiched between a success and a fail
Apollo 12
This New Zealand parrot is known for being the world’s only alpine parrot and for its highly curious, often destructive behavior.
Kea
What pre-modern maritime network, utilizing monsoon winds to connect East Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and Southeast Asia, was primarily driven by Muslim, Indian, and Chinese merchants exchanging goods like spices, textiles, and gold? (UNSKIPIBLE)
Trade in the Indian Ocean
This type of storage device uses flash memory and has largely replaced hard disk drives in modern laptops for faster performance.(UNSKIPIBLE)
SSD
This capital of Myanmar, officially designated in 2005, replaced Yangon as the administrative center of the country.(UNSKIPIBLE)
Naypyidaw
This theoretical boundary around a rotating black hole marks the region where space-time is dragged along so strongly that nothing can remain stationary.(UNSKIPIBLE)
Ergosphere
This cephalopod species can rapidly change not only color and texture but also mimic other animals’ shapes, including flatfish and sea snakes.(UNSKIPIBLE)
Mimic Octopus