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1. This leader received a life sentence that was to be served on Robben Island

2. 'Choudry Ali's 1933 pamphlet 'Now or Never' coined the name of this country, which was partly inspired by Baluchistan'

3. This dynasty was the subject of two eccentric books by Gavin Menzies, who claimed it discovered the Americas prior to Christopher Columbus

4. This man was ousted after a conflict which saw his country lose to Julius Nyerere's nation

5. The seizure of the pirate ship Arrow began the second of these wars

6. The vigilante Bakassi Boys are active in this country, where Odumegwu Ojukwu led abreakaway state in the 1960s

7. In one battle fought in this modern day country, the winning side, after much deliberation, adopted the aggressive tactics of Major Eyre Coote

8. In this country, the Gukurahundi was the suppression of civilians, mostly the supporters of Joshua Nkomo

9. This capital city was established after Marwan II lost the Battle of the Zab

10. A particularly eccentric leader of this country bathed in dolphin blood to preserve his youth and changed the currency to denominations divisible by nine

11. The ship Hazard bombarded a town controlled by members of this ethnicity after they cut down an object on a hill given as a gift to James Rusby

12. This dynasty's Yongle Emperor restored the Grand Canal, sent treasure boats with [*] Zheng He, and constructed the Forbidden City

13. He fled to Cuba after being overthrown by Ignacio Commonfort and Benito Juarez

14. One province in this country, which was formerly known as Van Diemen's Land, is the island of Tasmania, and major cities in this country include Darwin and Perth

15. In this nation, the Forum for the Restoration of Democracy was formed by opposition leader Oginga Odinga

16. According to the Tarikh as-Sudan, this empire had 22 Muslim kings and 22 non-Muslim kings

17. This office was dominated by members of the PRI until Vicente Fox won it in 2000

18. The Tutinama, or Tales of a Parrot, was produced by this empire

19. This war ended with the Treaty of Vereeniging

20. Robert Fitzroy's installation of a certain structure induced these people to fight in a war that led to Korareka's burning, a conflict incited by Hone Heke

21. A later ruler of this empire was captured at the Battle of Cajamarca [kah-hah-MAR-kah] after defeating his half-brother Huáscar [hWAHS-kar] in a civil war

22. Cristina Kirchner is a former president of this country, where Pope Francis was born

23. This ruler's civil service reforms include dividing public servants into thirty-three grades called mansabs and appointing wazirs to oversee revenue collection by local governors

24. This dynasty rose to prominence after its army defeated Marwan II, and it saw advancements in algebra by al-Khwarizmi and optics by Ibn al-Haytham

25. 'After its fall, there ensued a 400 year 'Period of Disunion,' which included the Three Kingdoms period'

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