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Leader of Germany during the First World War
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Wilhelm II
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Famous Prussian king know as "the great"
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Frederick the Great
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The final of the "rightly guided Caliphs" of the Rashidun Caliphate
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Ali
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Painter who chopped his ear off
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Vincent Van Gogh
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First female nobel prize winner
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Marie Curie
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Only NBA player to score 100 points in a single game
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Wilt Chamberlain
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British Prime minister in 1938 with the same last name
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Neville Chamberlain
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First Prime Minister of Canada
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Sir John A Macdonald
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The ____ Empire dominated South East Asia from the 10th to the 13th centuries AD
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Khmer
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Location of the first University founded in medieval Bohemia
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Prague
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Mughal Shah who had the Taj Mahal built
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Shah Jahan
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The final Western Roman Emperor
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Romulus Augustulus
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American General with numerous tanks named after him
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William Tecumseh Sherman
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The name of the railway that connects Western Russia to the Pacific Ocean
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Trans-Siberian Railway
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Famous cruel Belgian ruler of the Congo
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Leopold II
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Battle where Octavian's navy defeated that of Marc Antony and Cleopatra
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Actium
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These two rivers were defacto borders of the Roman Empire in the north across Europe
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Danube
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(The second river)
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Rhine
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Religion of the Sassanian Empire
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Zoroastrianism
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Who the Great Pyramid at Giza was built for
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Khufu
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The Eye of _____ is a famous symbol of Ancient Egypt
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Horus
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Greek playright who wrote the play "Oedipus Rex"
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Sophocles
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A tutor to Alexander the Great and a student of Plato
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Aristotle
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Often referred to as the inventor of the scientific method
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Sir Francis Bacon
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The War of the Roses was fought between the English Lancaster and ____ dynasties
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York
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The name of the steppe tribe who invaded and settled in modern day Hungary in the 9th Century AD
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Magyars
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What Triangular edifices in Ancient Egypt were NOT built by slaves
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The Pyramids
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The Architect who we attributed the design of the first (step) pyramid to
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Imhotep
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Polish Astronomer who proved Heliocentrism
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Copernicus
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The name of Marx's famous work on Capitalism
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Das Kapital
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