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1. A major center of this civilization was uncovered at San Lorenzo, while another is at La Venta

2. The popular 8888 Uprising in this country was crushed by SLORC, which ruled this country until 2011

3. Leonard Wood suppressed this country's Moro Rebellion, and led its Insular Government years after William H Taft did

4. Under Zhu Xi, Neo-Confucianism became prominent under this dynasty

5. A man ousted in a 1999 coup in this country later formed a coalition between the PPP and his eponymous Muslim League-N

6. This dynasty ended a system in which land was doled out based on family size, the equal field system

7. 'In this country, a street thug called 'the Brainless' was bribed by American and British agents in a coup organized by Donald Wilber'. That coup was called Operation Ajax by the CIA and prevented the nationalization of this country's oil by Mohammed Mossadegh

8. A religious movement directed against this dynasty got its name from the amount of food one had to donate in order to join

9. This empire was founded by the Afghani ruler Babur and ruled by Shah Jahan and Akbar

10. This man's chief architect, Liu Binzhong, constructed the city of Dadu for him

11. This empire, which trained scholars at a university in Sankore, used bundles of rodier palm and mud to build the Great Mosque of Djenné

12. Robert Baden-Powell useddeception tactics to hold the city of Mafeking during this war, which also included the Siege ofLadysmith

13. ''Crazy-headed' irregular troops of this polity carried out the Batak massacre'

14. 'This man compared signing one treaty to 'drinking a cup of poison'. That treaty discarded any claims his country's neighbor had over the Khuzestan province

15. The Seymour Expedition was defeated during this event, during which Sugiyama Akira was murdered by the Kansu Braves

16. This country also saw the rise of the Zagwe dynasty and the Aksum civilization, and its forces won the Battle of Adowa by fending off the Italians

17. This man, who fought alongside Antonio de Sucre, met at the Guayaquil Conference with Jose de San Martin

18. He was Time magazine's person of the year in 1979 after he oversaw a 444-day hostage crisis

19. Further periods of violence occurred during the Thousand Days War, the 19th of April Movement, and La Violencia

20. 'That dictator of this country declared himself the 'Last King of Scotland''

21. Declining oil revenues led to the targeting of the gold-mine-controlling Beni Hussein in later phases of it

22. 'In one of the earliest short stories from this country, a man with sideburns shaved in the shape of a 'U' is tortured and killed by supporters of its dictator'

23. The Treaty of Vereeniging ended this conflict, which saw the first major usage of concentration camps

24. Several kings named Jayavarman and Suryavarman ruled this empire, which also built a massive temple complex designed to look like Mount Meru

25. Fundamental to this dynasty's founding was the Battle of Lake Poyang, won by the leader of the Red Turbans, Zhu Yuanzhang, who became the Hongwu emperor

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