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What turning-point battle in 1942 prevented Germany from seizing the Suez Canal during WWII?

What international accord currently represents the strongest global effort to combat climate change?

The scientific classification of plants and animals, which began in the 1450–1750 period, is called

Pablo Picasso painted Guernica in 1937 to protest

In what part of the former USSR has Russia NOT applied military force during the 1990s or 2000s?

Who among the following was crucial to the struggle against apartheid in South Africa?

The term “intifada” refers to

What author wrote the 1899 poem “White Man’s Burden” to encourage U.S. imperial expansion?

Which of the following was LEAST likely to cause large-scale migration between 1200 and 1450?

This West African ruler, depicted in stories as an epic hero, founded the state of Mali in the 1200s.

Medical knowledge in Afro-Eurasia during the 1200–1450 period was based mainly on the teachings of

Andean societies assigned large-scale labor projects to clans called

Sugarcane extraction is thought to have first arisen where?

Which of the following developed rockets for military use during World War II?

What leader introduced free-market reforms into China’s communist economy in the 1980s?

In Tokugawa Japan, the status of women

In the colonial Americas, the term “creole” originally described

What term refers to the autocratic strongmen who took power in many parts of 19th-century Latin America?

Which of the following is NOT true of Albert Einstein?

Which of the following involved a significant government intervention in the workings of a capitalist economy?

Whose “Essay on Population” convinced many 19th-century economists that modern societies could not eliminate poverty?

What global economic crisis was sparked by the currency-related Panic of 1873?

The Hanseatic League regulated trade in which of the following areas?