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About 13 000 years ago people reached America, Clovis people - first Clovis points were discovered in small city in New Mexico

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Cities started around

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5000 years ago

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3
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Standard of Ur is dated for

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2600-2400 bc

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Ramses 2 was pharaoh in years

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1279-1213 bc

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5
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Ramses 2 ruled for

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66 years

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6
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Kushite kings were which dynasty

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25th

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Shang dynasty was ruling in China in

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1500-1050 bc

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Zhou dynasty was ruling in China in

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1050-221 bc

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9
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The first coins were created by

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Croesus

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10
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Coins were created by Croesus around

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550 bc

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The stamp used to indicate weight on Croesus’es coins was a… as value of the coin decreased the smaller parts of the anatomy were used. The smallest was…

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Lion. Paw

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12
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The cultura madre of Central America are the

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Olmec

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13
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The name Olmec comes from how Aztecs called them: the people of Olmen , meaning

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The rubber country
They invented one of th3 world’s earliest ball games- it was played using rubber balls

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Britain handovered Hong Kong to the People’s Republic of China in

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1997

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15
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What symbol was associated with the god Zeus-Ammon

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Horn symbol

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16
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What symbol was associated with Alexander the Great

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The ram’s horns

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17
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Alexander the Great came to the throne in

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336 BC

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18
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The dynasty that ruled in Egypt after Alexander the Great

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The Ptolemies

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19
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Ptolemy V came to the throne of Egypt in … at the age of

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In 205 BC, of 6

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20
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What dynasty built Library of Alexandria

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The Ptolemies

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21
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Who created Pharos lighthouse

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Ptolemies I and II

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22
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The Rosetta Stone was made in

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196 BC

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23
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Rosetta Stone had text in what 4 different languages

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Classical Greek, Demotic egyptian, hieroglyphics, english

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24
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British army captured Rosetta Stone from french in

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1801

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By which year and who cracked the code of hieroglyphs

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By 1822, Champollion

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26
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First Roman emperor

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Caesar Augustus

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27
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Who defeated Antony and Cleopatra

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Caesar Augustus

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28
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Caesar Augustus was Julius Caesar’s

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Great nephew

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29
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Julius Caesar was assassinated in

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44 BC

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30
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Battle of Actium was in

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31 BC

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31
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Battle of Actium was in

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31 BC

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32
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Europeans discovered smoking in which century

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16th

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33
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Britain became a oart of Roman Empire in the year

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43

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34
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Christanity became predominant religion of the Roman Empire in

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312

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35
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Prophet Muhammad was born in

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570

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36
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Historical Buddha was a prince of the Ganges region in northern India in the … century BC

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5th

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37
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Buddha meditated without moving for

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49 days

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38
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Buddha means

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To be awakened

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39
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Shiva symbol

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Trident

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40
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Vishnu image

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4 arms, holds discus and lotus flower

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41
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Who granted tolerance to Christanity in Rome

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Constantine

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42
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Tolerance was granted to Christanity in

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313

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43
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God of war in hinduism

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Kumara

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44
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Symbol of Kumara

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Peacock

45
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Holy book of Zoroastrian religion

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Avesta

46
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Ghe main religion of Sasanian Dynasty

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Zoroastrian

47
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Zoroaster was a first prophet to teach that

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Universe is a battleground between forces of good and evil
There will be a judgement day

48
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Hijra - the event when

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Muhammed and followers moved from Mecca to Medina

49
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Hijra happened in year

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622

50
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The event of… marked for Islam the beginning of year 1

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Hijra

51
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Damascus was conquered by Muslim armies in

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635

52
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Moche tribe existed in years…. in area of today’s…

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200bc to 650ad
Peru

53
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The first real city in South America was where currently is a city of

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Trujillo (Peru) , Moche people city

54
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Maya territory covered modern

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Honduras, Guatemala, Belize and southern Mexico

55
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Maya territory covered modern

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Honduras, Guatemala, Belize and southern Mexico

56
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First Maya cities have their beginnings around

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500 BC

57
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The laat Maya monuments date to around

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900 ad

58
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Ceylon (Sri Lanka) was taken over by the British from its Dutch rulers in

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1815

59
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Tang Dynasty in China ran from

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618- 906

60
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Which Anglo-Saxon king at last defeated the Vikings and built the beginnings of the kingdom of England

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Athelstan

61
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Athelstan annexed the Viking kingdom of York in

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927

62
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Muslim rule in Spain ended in

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1492

63
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Japan in Heian period isolated itself from China in

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894

64
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…. 鎖国 / 鎖國, “locked country”) is the common name for the isolationist foreign policy of the Japanese Tokugawa shogunate under which, during the Edo period from…. to…

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Sakoku
1603-1868

65
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Symbols of longevity in Japan

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Cranes, pine branches

66
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Cranes in Japan are symbols of

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Longevity and marital fidelity

67
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Borobudur was a buddhist temple built on Java around the year

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800

68
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Zimbabwe is a Shona word meaning

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Stone Houses

69
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From 11th to 15th century which African country economy was based on gold trade on the coast of Indian Ocean

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Zimbabwe

70
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Swahili language was created when … words were absorbed into the local … language

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Arabic and Persian
Bantu

71
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The Black Death was a pandemic in Europe in

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1346- 1353

72
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Chess was most probably invented in… at some point after the year…

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India
500

73
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The oldest astrolabe to survive is Islamic one ( allowed faithful to find direction to Mecca) from the… century

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10th

74
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The oldest astrolabe to survive is Islamic one ( allowed faithful to find direction to Mecca) from the… century

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10th

75
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Genghis Khan was ruler of the Mongols from

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1206

76
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Word porcelain comes from Marco Polo’s description of his travels in Qubilai Khan’s China. In italian porcellana means…
It is a slang word for

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Little piglet
Cowry shell

77
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The colors on chinese porcelain- blue and white - mirrored the local style of porcelain in

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Iran

78
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Triumph of Orthodoxy - veneration of icons was restored by empress…. in…

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Theodora
843

79
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Triumph of Orthodoxy - veneration of icons was restored by empress…. in…

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Theodora
843

80
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Constantinople fell to the Turks in

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1453

81
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Shiva is the god of…
The god who forever

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Paradoxes
Creates and destroys

82
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Shiva’s wife is

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Parvati

83
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Shiva’s animal is a….
Paravti’s animal is a…

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Bull
Lion

84
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Tlazolteotl was Aztecs

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Mother goddess

85
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Tlazolteotl literally means in the Aztec language

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Filth goddess

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The Aztec goddess of fertility, vegetation, renewal, the ultimate green goddess, transforming waste and excrement until healthy new life, guaranteeing the great cycle of natural regeneration. Another name she has is “eater of filth”- she consumes dirt and purifies it

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Tlazolteotl

87
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The Aztec empire was created in

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1430s

88
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Silver mine in Potosí (current Bolivia) allow Spaniards to create a first truly global money-

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Pieces of Eight

89
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Britain’s first ambassadkr to India was…
He arrived in India in

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Sir Thomas Roe
1617

90
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Indonesia gained independence from…. after

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Dutch
Second World War

91
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Britain occupied Java between

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1811 and 1816

92
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Martin Luther nailed his…. thesis to a church door in …at

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95
1517
Wittenberg

93
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Thirty Years War was in

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1618-1648

94
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The European Enlightenment was an age in which scientific learning and philosophy flourished, it was in

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1680-1820

95
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The first African slaves arrived in British North America in

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1619

96
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In South Carolina in… drums were used as a call to arms at the outbreak of a violent slave rebellion. It prompted the colony to prohibit drums by law and classify them as weapons

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1739

97
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In … Captain James Cook on board of …. landed in Hawaii

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1778
Resolution

98
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Hawaii was never colonized by Europeans. It was annexated by US in

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1898

99
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James Cook got to Australia in

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1770

100
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The ruler of England during Cook’s discoveries was

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King George 3rd

101
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Cook called Eastern Coast of Australia

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New South Wales

102
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Qing Dynasty displaced Ming in

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1644

103
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The Great Wave by … was made around…

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Hokusai
1830

104
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Japan’s self-imposed isolation was breached in… by… of the US Navy who sailed into Tokyo Bay uninvited and demanded that Japanese begin to trade with US. He brought a letter from president of US.

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1853
Matthew Perry

105
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Suez canal built bt the French and Egyptians in

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1869

106
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Kitchner’s Anglo- Egyptian army destroyed the Madhist forces at Omdurman in…
One of the participants was the young…

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1898
Winston Churchill

107
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Sudan was ruled as an Anglo- Egyptian territory from… until…

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1899
1956

108
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First credit card was issued in

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1958

109
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In… credit cards became truly global

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1990s

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