Ethiopia
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Ethiopia
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What was Ethiopia known as prior to the 1600s?
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Abyssinia
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What European power briefly occupied Ethiopia in the 1930s?
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Italy
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Who was emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974?
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Haile Selassie
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What was the name of the Australopithecus skeleton discovered in Ethiopia in 1974?
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Lucy
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What killed over 1 million Ethiopians in the early 1980s?
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Famine
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Turkey
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Turkey
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What city in Turkey was supposedly destroyed in 1180 BC?
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Troy
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Which Roman emperor moved the capital of the empire to Turkey?
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Constantine
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What empire was conquered by the Ottoman Empire in 1453?
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Byzantine Empire
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What war caused the downfall of the Ottoman Empire?
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WWI
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What country did Turkish troops enter in 2019?
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Syria
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Netherlands
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Netherlands
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What flower was the center of a famous investment bubble in the 1600s?
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Tulip
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What wind-powered device was used by the Dutch to drain wetlands and greatly expand the land area of the country?
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Windmill
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What North American city did the Dutch cede to the English in 1664?
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New Amsterdam
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What scientific device was greatly improved by Antonie van Leeuwenhoek?
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Microscope
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What world famous painter was born in the Netherlands in 1853?
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Vincent Van Gogh
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Australia
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Australia
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What type of curved stick was used by Aboriginal Australians to hunt small prey?
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Boomerang
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What British explorer charted maps of Eastern Australia?
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James Cook
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What bird did Australia fight a "war" against in 1932?
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Emus
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What northern city was hit by Japanese air raids during WWII?
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Darwin
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What was Australian prime minister Harold Holt doing when he disappeared in 1967?
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Swimming
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Austria
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Austria
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What royal house controlled Austria for most of its existence?
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Hapsburg
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Who was the only woman to rule the Austrian empire?
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Maria Theresa
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What country was Austria merged with from 1867-1918?
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Hungary
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Who became the world's first psychoanalyst in 1886?
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Sigmund Freud
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What was the term for Austria's merger into Germany in 1938?
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Anschluss
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Russia
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Russia
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What territory did Russia sell to the U.S. in 1867?
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Alaska
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Prior to 1917, what was the title of the leader of Russia?
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Tsar
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What was the first country to secede from the USSR?
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Lithuania
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Who was the first president of the Russian federation?
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Boris Yeltsin
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What appeared in the skies over Chelyabinsk in 2013?
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Meteor
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The phrasing of the question is asking about an animal that became domesticated during that specific time period, not one that was already domesticated prior to it. There is a significant difference between those two concepts.
I was surprised the correct answer wasn't accepted while the incorrect answer was, especially when the correct answer is far more interesting. :)
Please review and thank you for many years of enjoyment with these terrific quizzes!
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