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Pearl Harbour, an American Naval and Airforce base was attacked by
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Answer: Option B
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Pearl Harbor attack, (December 7, 1941), surprise aerial attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on Oahu Island, Hawaii, by the Japanese that precipitated the entry of the United States into World War II. The strike climaxed a decade of worsening relations between the United States and Japan.
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Who was popularly known as Africa's Gandhi?
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Answer: Option C
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Nelson Mandela is known as "South African Gandhi". He also used the Gandhian principles of 'Passive Resistance' and 'Satyagraha' as effective political tool.
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Who made tripartite periodisation standard?
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Answer: Option B
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The alternative term medieval derives from medium aevum, tripartite periodisation became standard after the German 17th-century historian Christoph Cellarius. This threefold periodization was first employed by George Hornius, a Dutch historian in his Arca Noae (1666), and became widely known later through Christophorus Cellarius, a German historian, in his Historia nova, hoc est XVI et XVII saeculorum (1696).
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Democracy is a "government in which everyone has a share" was the opinion of
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Answer: Option D
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"Democracy is a government in which everyone has a share" was the opinion of Abraham Lincoln. According to Abraham Lincoln, democracy gave people the right to make use of their thinking according to their capacity.
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Marco Polo was a traveller from __________
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Answer: Option C
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Marco Polo, an Italian trader and traveler, became famous for his travels in central Asia and China. He wrote a book that gave Europeans some of their earliest information about China, which was then called Cathay. Marco was born in Venice. His father, Nicolo Polo, was a merchant.
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Who advanced Russia's boundary to the Black Sea?
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Answer: Option A
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Catherine the Great extended Russian political control over the lands of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Catherine successfully waged war against the Ottoman Empire and advanced Russia's southern boundary to the Black Sea.
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Whose model is based on the Mandate of Heaven?
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Answer: Option D
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The Mandate of Heaven is an ancient Chinese belief and philosophical idea that Heaven granted emperors the right to rule based on their ability to govern well and fairly.
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Aztec civilization was originated in which country
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Answer: Option D
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The Mexica were late-comers to the Valley of Mexico, and founded the city-state of Tenochtitlan on unpromising islets in Lake Texcoco, later becoming the dominant power of the Aztec Triple Alliance or Aztec Empire.
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When did Congress pass the Sherman Antitrust Act?
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Answer: Option A
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Approved July 2, 1890, The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was the first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices. The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 was the first measure passed by the U.S. Congress to prohibit trusts.
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Which civilization is known as the birthplace of democracy
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Answer: Option C
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The concept of a democratic society, such as the one our country enjoys today, began in the Greek capital some 8,000 years ago. The city of Athens is sometimes referred to as the cradle of Western civilization. Athens began as a hilltop fort on the Acropolis.