Question: What newer artillery were Prussians using?
Answer: steel breech-loading guns

Question: What did the French believe was overly wasted in artillery with a higher rate of fire?
Answer: ammunition

Question: The Prussian artillery batteries had what percentage more of guns than the French?
Answer: 30% more

Question: What was the typical range that Prussian guns could fire?
Answer: 2–3 kilometres

Question: On what date did the Government of National Defence negotiate an armistice?
Answer: 28 January 1871

Question: With whom did the French government negotiate?
Answer: the Prussians

Question: What consequence of war were Parisians suffering?
Answer: starving

Question: Which French minister traveled to Versailles to discuss peace?
Answer: Favre

Question: What was the date on which jFarve and Bismarck met?
Answer: 24 January

Question: How many were killed by the Communards?
Answer: 500 people

Question: Which religious official was also killed during the fighting?
Answer: Archbishop of Paris

Question: What type of buildings were especially targeted to be burned down?
Answer: government buildings

Question: What famous palace was also burned down?
Answer: Tuileries Palace

Question: What is the rough estimate of the number of people killed?
Answer: between 6,000 and 10,000

Question: At the start of the war, how many German troops were focused on the French frontier?
Answer: 462,000

Question: How many French troops were available to stand again the Germans?
Answer: 270,000

Question: What is the literal meaning of the Prussian word "Kreis?"
Answer: literally "circle"

Question: What did the French military numbers suffer from the most?
Answer: having lost 100,000 stragglers

Question: The events of the Franco-Prussian War had great influence on what?
Answer: military thinking

Question: Lessons garnered from the war included recognizing the need for what kind of system?
Answer: general staff system

Question: Who adopted the Prussian artillery tactics in 1914?
Answer: European armies

Question: What was the French 75 optimised to directly support?
Answer: advancing infantry

Question: Evidence from what war suggested the increased benefits of smokeless poweder rifles?
Answer: Russo-Japanese War

Question: A unified German Empire ended the balance of power in which congress?
Answer: Congress of Vienna

Question: At the end of the Napoleonic wars, Germany had established itself as what, in continental Europe?
Answer: the main power

Question: Who remained the dominant world power at this time?
Answer: Great Britain

Question: British involvement in European matters in the late 19th century was considered what?
Answer: very limited

Question: The Crown Prince's marriage to whom was considered the most prominent of German-British royal liasons?
Answer: the daughter of Queen Victoria

Question: Where in Eritrea did Italian scientists find one of the oldest hominids?
Answer: Buya

Question: How old was the hominid that was found in Eritrea?
Answer: over 1 million years

Question: What place in Eritrea is believed to have played a major part in human evolution?
Answer: section of the Danakil Depression

Question: What possible link is represented by the hominid found in Eritrea?
Answer: hominids and the earliest anatomically modern humans

Question: What is the importance pertaining to the age of the hominid that was found in Eritrea?
Answer: it is the oldest skeletal find of its kind

Question: Who was James Bruce?
Answer: Scottish traveler

Question: In 1770, who reported that Medri Bahri was a distinct political entity from Abyssinia?
Answer: James Bruce

Question: How is The Bahre-Nagassi translated?
Answer: "Kings of the Sea"

Question: What determined whether The Bahre-Nagassi fought with or against the Abyssinians?
Answer: geopolitical circumstances

Question: Which century marked the arrival of the Ottomans?
Answer: 16th

Question: What subsequently led to the Eritran War of Independence?
Answer: annexation

Question: When did Eritrea join a federation with Ethiopia, the Federation of Ethipia and Eritrea?
Answer: 1947

Question: What persisted and led to the Eritrean-Ethiopian War of 1998-2000?
Answer: Hostilities between Eritrea and Ethiopia

Question: What was the result of the War of Independence?
Answer: Eritrean independence

Question: What is the result of the incorporation of independent kingdoms and sultanates?
Answer: modern-day Eritrea

Question: What did excavations around Agordat yield the remains of?
Answer: the Gash Group

Question: What is the Gash Group?
Answer: an ancient pre-Aksumite civilization

Question: Where is Agordat located?
Answer: central Eritrea

Question: What type of evidence indicated that the C-Group spoke Afroasiatic languages of the Berber branches?
Answer: linguistic

Question: When did the C-Group inhabit the Nile Valley?
Answer: between 2500–1500 BC

Question: What purpose did stelae serve?
Answer: religious

Question: Who erected a number of large stelae in pre-Christian times?
Answer: The Aksumites

Question: Which stelae is considered the largest in the world, standing at 90 feet?
Answer: the obelisk of Aksum

Question: Where is the Ark of the Covenant believed to be resting?
Answer: Aksum

Question: Who eventually adopted Christianity under Ezana?
Answer: Aksum

Question: What is the abbreviation for the United Nations' Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions?
Answer: ACABQ

Question: What does the acronym INTERPOL stand for?
Answer: International Criminal Police Organization

Question: Which league is Eritrea an observing member of?
Answer: Arab League

Question: Who ruled Aksum and also governed the port of Adulis?
Answer: Zoskales

Question: How did the Aksumite rulers facilitate trade?
Answer: by minting their own Aksumite currency

Question: Which kingdoms did Aksum regularly enter the politics of?
Answer: on the Arabian peninsula

Question: Who did Aksum conquer in order to extend its rule over the Arabian peninsula?
Answer: Himyarite Kingdom

Question: Where was Ivory exported according to the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea?
Answer: throughout the ancient world

Question: When was the Eritrean Railway completed in Saati?
Answer: 1888

Question: When did the Eritrean Railway reach the Asmara highlands?
Answer: 1911

Question: What was the longest line in the world during its time?
Answer: The Asmara–Massawa Cableway

Question: Who dismantled the Asmara-Massawa Cableway?
Answer: the British

Question: In what areas of public service were Eritreans particularly employed?
Answer: police and public works departments

Question: Who prompted Eritrea to be federated with Ethiopia in 1950?
Answer: United States

Question: Which UN Resolution called for Eritrea and Ethiopia to be linked via a loose federal structure under sovereignty of the Emperor?
Answer: 390A(V)

Question: What would federal government control in Eritrea according to Resolution 390A(V)??
Answer: foreign affairs (including commerce), defense, finance, and transportation

Question: Which Eritrean wishes did Resolution 390A(V) ignore?
Answer: independence

Question: What did Resolution 390A(V) guarantee the population of Eritrea?
Answer: democratic rights and a measure of autonomy

Question: What did the Eritrea administration open to produce products such as buttons and construction materials?
Answer: a number of new factories

Question: How many factories were in Eritrea by 1939?
Answer: around 2,198

Question: Who were the main employees in the factories of Eritrea?
Answer: Eritrean citizens

Question: Besides Eritreans, which other nationality increased its city population because of new industries?
Answer: Italians

Question: How much did the number of Italians residing in Eritrea increase in 5 years due to factories being built?
Answer: from 4,600 to 75,000

Question: What big cat is said to inhabit the mountains of the Gash-Barka Region?
Answer: Lions