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12/4/23, 9:41 AM Quiz: Map Quiz 2

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Map Quiz 2 Started: Dec 4 at 9:41am

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Homeland of the Tlingit, Haida, & Tsimshian, original stewards of the 17-million-acre Tongass, the world’s largest intact temporal rainforest

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Site of 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre, where prolonged protests for economic and political reform were countered with martial law and hundreds or thousands of deaths

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Home to 10% of the world’s known species, this largest tropical rainforest consists of an estimated 390 billion individual trees

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12/4/23, 9:41 AM Quiz: Map Quiz 2

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System of apartheid, which codified racial segregation, persisted here until 1991; Nelson Mandela remained imprisoned for 27 years for resisting this oppressive system

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Core and point of origin of the Ottoman Empire, which endured for over six centuries and spanned two million square miles at its peak

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Country where the Great Hunger, caused by potato blight that affected its most important crop in the mid- 19th century, led to a nearly 25% population decline from mass emigration and death by starvation

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Neo-Confucianism became the official state ideology here during the Joseon period, and this belief system still permeates the culture through ideas and rituals

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With an ironic name that means “water that doesn’t freeze,” the coldest inhabited place on Earth, where the average winter temperature is -58°F

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Where divergent notions of sovereignty and land ownership in the 1800s precipitated wars involving native Māori and colonial forces that lasted more than a quarter century

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Characterized by a proliferation of hydrothermal features, the hottest inhabited place on Earth, which holds the world record for highest annual mean temperature of 93.9°F

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