Week 10 Social Studies

After being driven out of this modern-day country, Douglas MacArthur declared "I shall return." Name this former American colony in Asia where the Bataan Death March occurred in 1942 after Japanese forces seized it.

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This country has the world's largest oil reserves, at an estimated 300 billion barrels. Name this only South American country that is part of OPEC.

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OPEC is an acronym for

Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries

Venezuela's oil reserves surpassed those of this MIddle Eastern country around 2011. Aramco is based in the country, which is still the world's largest exporter of oil.

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This South American country left OPEC in 2020. In April 2022 an oil spill threatened the habitat of its Galapagos Islands.

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OPEC stands for Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries.

At the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains, the Visigoth Theodoric I allied with Romans to oppose this commander in Gaul. A 451 invasion of Italy was led by what king of the Huns?

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The Greek army sacked Troy by pretending to abandon their siege, then sneaking into the city by hiding inside a giant sculpture of this animal.

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The Trojan horse was the idea of this wily king of Ithaca whose ten-year return home is related in an eponymous sequel to The Iliad.

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eponymous is a word used to describe things (restaurants, books, movies, etc.) that are named after a person.

This father of Paris and Hector was the last king of Troy before it was sacked by the Greeks.

In 1192 this English king was captured near Vienna. Name this king who was captured while returning to England from a conflict in the Middle East in which he fought Saladin.

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King Richard I was captured after participating in the third of these wars meant to secure Jerusalem and the Holy Land.