Question: Who works closely with the definition of the Near East?
Answer: the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies (NESA)

Question: What is NESA?
Answer: an educational institution of the United States Department of Defense

Question: What does NESA Teach?
Answer: It teaches courses and holds seminars and workshops

Question: What is WINEP?
Answer: The Washington Institute for Near East Policy

Question: What is WINEPS target countries as?
Answer: the Middle East

Question: How does WINEP bundle the countries of Northwest Africa?
Answer: under "North Africa."

Question: What does LoC stand for?
Answer: The Library of Congress

Question: What is the Library of Congress?
Answer: an institution established by Congress to provide a research library for the government

Question: The Library of Congress is under whose supervision?
Answer: the United States Congress Joint Committee on the Library

Question: Who formulates multiple regional divisions as is convenient for its various operations?
Answer: The United Nations

Question: Who recognizes the "Middle East and North Africa" region?
Answer: UNICEF

Question: The United Nations Statistics Division defines Western Asia to contain what?
Answer: the countries included elsewhere in the Middle East

Question: The Food and Agriculture Organization describes its entire theater of operations as what?
Answer: the Near East

Question: What is a quasi-independent agency of the United States Government?
Answer: The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

Question: The CIA appears to have what?
Answer: multiple leadership

Question: Who appoints the director of the CIA?
Answer: the president

Question: Who oversees the operations of the CIA?
Answer: Congress

Question: The Near East of the NESA is the same as the Middle East define in what?
Answer: The World Factbook

Question: What does NESA stand for?
Answer: Near Eastern and South Asian Analysis

Question: Whose duties are defined as "support on Middle Eastern and North African countries?"
Answer: (NESA)

Question: What does USAID stand for?
Answer: U.S. Agency for International Development

Question: What is the independant agency under the Department of State for the purpose of determining and distributing foreign aid called?
Answer: USAID

Question: What term does USAID not use?
Answer: the term Near East

Question: The Foreign and Commonwealth Office of United Kingdom recognizes what?
Answer: a Middle East and North Africa region

Question: What region does the Foreign and Commonwealth office of United Kingdom not recognize?
Answer: Near East

Question: What consumed the Near East as far as the Red Sea?
Answer: Their original Middle East

Question: What does the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Greece conduct?
Answer: "bilateral relationships"

Question: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey does not use what term?
Answer: Near East

Question: The Middle East, the Balkans and others are included in what republic?
Answer: Republic of Turkey

Question: What is a term of the 20th centrury intended to stabilize the geographical application of Near East to ancient history?
Answer: The Ancient Near East

Question: The ancient nations, people and languages of the enhanced Fertile Crescent will always refer to what?
Answer: the Ancient Near East

Question: What is the sweep of land from the Nile Valley through Anatolia called?
Answer: Fertile Crescent

Question: James Bennett Pritchard wrote what?
Answer: Texts relating to the Old Testament

Question: When did James Bennett Pritchard write his textbook?
Answer: 1950

Question: Who was a British archaeologist?
Answer: Leonard Woolley

Question: Who excavated ancient Ur?
Answer: Leonard Woolley

Question: What do most universities teaching liberal arts have? 
Answer: library and museum collections

Question: What has had parallel growth of in the 20th century?
Answer: the collection of resources

Question: What are these resources collected for?
Answer: for scholarship and research

Question: What does CSAD stand for?
Answer: Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents

Question: Who founded the CSAD?
Answer: Oxford University

Question: Where is Oxford University?
Answer: Great Britain

Question: Where did a large percentage of experts on the modern Middle East began their training?
Answer: university departments named for the Near East

Question: What is the meaning of Near East in numerous establishments and publications?
Answer: Middle East

Question: What is almost never mixed or confused with studies of the Ancient Near East?
Answer: Expertise on the modern Middle East

Question: What includes such languages as Sumerian and Akkadian?
Answer: Near Eastern Languages

Question: What was Zhejiang formerly romanized as?
Answer: Chekiang

Question: Which province is Zhejiang bordered by to the northwest?
Answer: Anhui

Question: Which province is Zhejiang bordered by to the west?
Answer: Jiangxi

Question: Which province is Zhejiang bordered by to the south?
Answer: Fujian

Question: Which body of water is to the east of Zhejiang?
Answer: East China Sea

Question: What is the former name of the Qiantang River?
Answer: Zhe River

Question: What does the mouth of the Qiantang River form?
Answer: Hangzhou Bay

Question: What does Zhe mean in Chinese?
Answer: Crooked

Question: Which river does the province of Zhejiang derive its name from?
Answer: Zhe River

Question: What does the Qiantang River flow past?
Answer: Hangzhou

Question: What kind of cultures were the Hemudu and Liangzhu?
Answer: Neolithic

Question: Where was the site of the Hemudu and LIangzhu cultures?
Answer: Zhejiang

Question: What year was there an analysis of the DNA recovered from human remains in Liangzhu culture?
Answer: 2007

Question: Which culture were the Austronesian and Tai-Kadai peoples linked to in the DNA analysis?
Answer: Liangzhu

Question: What haplogroup did a DNA analysis of the Liangzhu culture reveal?
Answer: O1

Question: Who populated the areas of Zhejiang in the 2nd millennium BC?
Answer: Hundred Yue

Question: When did the kingdom of Yue begin to appear?
Answer: Spring and Autumn Period

Question: Where was the kingdom of Yue located according to chronicles?
Answer: northern Zhejiang

Question: Who does Shiji claim that its leaders were descended from?
Answer: Yu the Great

Question: What does the Sword of Goujian bear?
Answer: bird-worm seal script

Question: What was the initial power base for Xiang Liang and Xiang Yu's rebellion?
Answer: Kuaiji Commandery

Question: Who did the kingdom of Chu eventually fall to?
Answer: the Han

Question: In Later Han, which Mount did control of the area return to the settlement below?
Answer: Kuaiji

Question: Who led a rebellion with Xiang Liang against the Qin Empire?
Answer: Xiang Yu

Question: Which empire did Xiang Liang and Xiang Yu rebel against?
Answer: the Qin Empire

Question: When was the beginning of the Three Kingdoms era?
Answer: 220–280 CE

Question: What was home to the warlord Yan Baihu?
Answer: Zhejiang

Question: What kingdom did Sun Ce and Sun Quan eventually establish?
Answer: the Kingdom of Wu

Question: Where was their court in Kuaiji removed to?
Answer: Jianye

Question: Along with Manchuria, where did trade reach as far as?
Answer: Funan

Question: When was Zhejiang part of the Wu?
Answer: during the Three Kingdoms

Question: What is another name for Wu or Eastern Wu?
Answer: Sun Wu

Question: What was the most developed state among the Three Kingdoms?
Answer: Wu

Question: Which historical novel records that Zhejiang had the best-equipped, strong navy force?
Answer: Romance of the Three Kingdoms

Question: Along with Wei, which state avoided direct conflict with Wu?
Answer: Shu

Question: What was Nanjing formerly known as?
Answer: Jiankang

Question: What was the former name of Hangzhou?
Answer: Qiantang

Question: Besides Qiantang and Jiankang, what was the other major metropolitan center in the south?
Answer: Chengdu