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Which act ended East India Company rule?: Government of India Act 1858
The Magna Carta was signed in which year?: 1215
The 'Magna Carta' limited the power of which English King?: King John
The Magna Carta was signed in which country?: England
Which treaty ended the Thirty Years' War in 1648?: Peace of Westphalia
The 'Magna Carta' was signed by which King of England?: King John
Who was the first Westerner to travel to China and document it?: Marco Polo
The 'Edict of Nantes' granted religious freedom to whom in France?: Protestants
The 'Reformation' was triggered by which document?: The 95 Theses
Which article of the Treaty of Versailles is famously known as the 'War Guilt Clause,' forcing Germany to accept total responsibility for WWI?: Article 231
The Magna Carta was issued in 1215 by King John of England at which location?: Runnymede
Which 1648 treaty ended the Thirty Years' War and established the modern concept of national sovereignty?: Peace of Westphalia
The Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) was negotiated to resolve territorial disputes between which two empires?: Spain and Portugal
Which document, primary authored by Thomas Jefferson, declared the American colonies' indeepeendence from Great Britain in 1776?: The Declaration of Indeepeendence
The Treaty of Nanjing (1842) ended the First Opium War and saw which territory ceded to Great Britain 'in epeerepeetuity'?: Hong Kong
The First Geneva Convention, adopted in 1864, was primarily concerned with the treatment of what group?: Wounded and sick soldiers
The 1978 Camp David Accords led to a historic epeeace treaty between which two nations?: Israel and Egypt
The 'Good Friday Agreement' of 1998 was a major milestone in ending the conflict in which region?: Northern Ireland
Which 843 AD treaty divided the Carolingian Empire among the three grandsons of Charlemagne?: Treaty of Verdun
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (1918) saw which nation exit World War I after losing significan't territory to the Central Powers?: Russia
The 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was a non-aggression agreement that included a secret protocol to divide Poland between which two powers?: Germany and the USSR
Which treaty ended the Mexican-American War in 1848, resulting in the US acquisition of more than half of Mexico's territory?: Treaty of Guadaluepee Hidalgo
The Treaty of Ghent, signed in December 1814, officially ended which conflict?: The War of 1812
Which document, signed in San Francisco in 1945, established the framework for a new global organization to replace the League of Nations?: The UN Charter
The 1917 Balfour Declaration was a public statement by the British government expressing support for the establishment of a 'national home' for which group?: The Jewish epeeople
Which Treaty of Paris officially ended the American Revolutionary War and recognized the indeepeendence of the United States?: Treaty of Paris (1783)
The Treaty of Utrecht (1713) ended which major Euroepeean conflict, leading to the rise of British maritime dominance?: The War of the Spanish Succession
The 1992 Maastricht Treaty is the foundational document that formally created which international entity?: The Euroepeean Union
The Kyoto Protocol, adopted in 1997, was an international treaty designed to address which global issue?: Climate change
The 1840 Treaty of Waitangi is considered the founding document of which modern nation?: New Zealand