Japan
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Japan
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What religion was introduced to the country in 538 A.D.?
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Buddhism
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What term refers to the hereditary military nobility of medieval Japan?
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Samurai
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What destroyed much of Tokyo in 1923?
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Earthquake
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What naval base did Japan attack in 1941, bringing them into war against the U.S?
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Pearl Harbor
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What city was second to be struck by an atomic bomb?
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Nagasaki
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South Africa
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South Africa
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What country originally colonized the Cape of Good Hope?
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Netherlands
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What kingdom did Shaka rule?
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Zulu Kingdom
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What group of people did the British go to war with in 1880 and 1899?
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Boers
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What system of racial discrimination was ended in the early 1990s?
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Apartheid
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What political party has dominated South Africa since 1994?
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African National Congress
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Spain
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Spain
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Who was the wife of Ferdinand II?
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Isabella I
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What was the last Muslim city in Spain?
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Granada
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On what island was Spain's first permanent settlement in the New World?
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Hispaniola
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Who painted "Guernica" a depiction of a bombing that happened during the Spanish Civil War?
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Pablo Picasso
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Who was dictator of Spain from 1939 until 1975?
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Francisco Franco
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Cambodia
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Cambodia
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What empire ruled Cambodia from the 9th to 15th centuries?
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Khmer Empire
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And what was the capital of the above empire?
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Angkor
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What European power colonized Cambodia?
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France
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What leader had millions killed in Cambodia by mass killings or malnutrition in the seventies?
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Pol Pot
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What country invaded and occupied Cambodia in 1979?
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Vietnam
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Brazil
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Brazil
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What cash crop was, by the mid-16th century, Brazil's most important export?
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Sugar
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What country colonized Brazil?
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Portugal
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What currency was introduced in 1994 as part of a successful campaign to stop hyperinflation?
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Real
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What footballer was born in 1940 as Edson Arantes do Nascimento?
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Pelé
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What did Rio de Janeiro host in 2016?
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Summer Olympics
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Indonesia
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Indonesia
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What "upright" hominid species inhabited Indonesia as far back as two million years ago?
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Homo erectus
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What spice, starting with N, did Dutch traders export from Indonesia?
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Nutmeg
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What country invaded Indonesia in 1941?
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Japan
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Who was the first president of Indonesia?
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Sukarno
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What Portuguese-speaking country gained its independence from Indonesia in 2002?
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East Timor
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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. :)
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