History

Question 1

Mythical period when Aboriginal peoples believed that Australia was created, during which beings like the Rainbow Serpent ruled

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Dreamtime

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Series of wars in which, upon arriving in Australia, the British persecuted the Aboriginal people and seized their land

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Frontier Wars

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Term for the many Aboriginal Australian children who were taken from their families in the 1900s

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Stolen Generations

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National holiday celebrating European mistreatment of Aboriginal people in Australia, first taking place in 1998

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National Sorry Day or National Day of Healing

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Ethnically distinct from Aboriginal Australians, an indigenous people that live north of mainland Queensland

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Torres Strait Islanders

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Indigenous peoples of Hokkaido, generally taller with long beards and distinctive facial tattoos, particularly among women

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Ainu

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Animal native to Hokkaido, traditionally hunted and worshipped by Ainu communities

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Bears

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Wealthy region in Spain that includes Bilbao and San Sebastián

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Basque Country

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Language-isolate spoken in northern Spain and southwestern France that emerged earlier than Proto-Indo European

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Basque

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Battle at which the Basques defeated Charlemagne, forming the Kingdom of Navarre

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Battle of Roncevaux Pass

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Terrorist group supported by Basques in the 20th century to fight for independance from Spain

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ETA

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Indigenous peoples from the Arctic portion of North America, particularly the Canadian territory Nunavut, distinct from the First Nations

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Inuit peoples

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First full-length documentary to depict a somewhat-accurate version of Inuit life, premiering in 1922

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Nanook of the North

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Term now considered offensive, used to refer to the Inuit peoples of North America and the Yupik peoples of eastern Siberia

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Eskimo

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Indigenous peoples native to a mountainous region between Turkey, Iraq, and Iran, against whom Saddam Hussein committed genocide

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Kurds

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Native Māori word for New Zealand

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Aotearoa

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Peace accord signed by Māori people and British settlers in 1840

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Treaty of Waitangi

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Indigenous people of southern Mexico and Central America, which developed in the Yucatan peninsula and built Chichen Itza

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Mayans

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Country in which most Mayan people life today, and where thousands were killed during a U.S.-backed genocide in the 1980s

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Guatemala

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Guatemalan human-right’s activist who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992 for advocating on behalf of Mayan people

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Rigoberta Menchú

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Collection of indigenous people in western South America, predominantly living in the Andes Mountains in Peru, who were the first to domesticate potatoes

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Quechua peoples

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Spanish explorer who conquered the Quechua people in the early sixteenth century

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Francisco Pizzaro

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Indigenous people of Easter Island who first settled there around 1200, many of whom live in the city of Hanga Roa

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Rapa Nui people

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Island to which rats were introduced in the 18th century, leading to deforestation and a large decline of the Rapa Nui population

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Easter Island

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Indigenous peoples of northern Scandinavia, who lived by herding reindeer and other animals, many of whom migrated south following the Black Death

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Sami people

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Traditional Sami folk singing style, which inspired the opening number of Disney’s Frozen

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Joik

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Native name for Basque, the autonomous community in northern Spain

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Euskadi

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Ruler defeated by the Basques at the Battle of Ronceveaux Pass

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Charlemagne

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Island to which the Ainu people of Japan are native

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Hokkaido

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Region from where the Mayan civilization originated

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Yucatan Peninsula of southern Mexico, northern Guatemala, El Salvador

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Region to which the Rapa Nui indigenous peoples are native

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Easter Island