Revolutions & Constitutions

The first geo quiz will consist of two parts. In the first part, you will be asked to locate the thirteen original colonies on a blank of the eastern American seaboard. (Lines defining the borders of the colonies/states will be provided). In part two, you will be asked to identify all the states of the union in 1860 and to indicate which of them were slave states and which were free states. For this quiz you need not concern yourself with territories that had not yet become states. Gordon Wood's American Revolution has some useful maps on colonial period, while a map of free and slave states is available below, as are b lank maps for study:

On a blank map, you should be able to locate the following republics of the USSR, as they appeared in 1936: Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, Ukrainian SSR, Belorussian SSR, Georgian SSR, Armenian SSR, Azerbaijan SSR, Kazakh SSR, Uzbek SSR, Turkmen SSR, Kirgiz SSR, and Tadjik SSR. You should also be able to identify the USSR's neighbors: Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, China, Mongolia, and Korea.

On a blank map you should be able to locate the following countries, as the situation appeared in 1980 or so: Turkey,  the USSR, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan., Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, and  Oman. You should also be able to locate the fllowing bodies of water: Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea, Black Sea, Caspian Sea, Persian Gulf, Straits of Hormuz, and the Gulf of Oman. Finally, you should be able to locate the following cities (in Iran): Tehran, Qom, Esfahan, Tabriz; and (in Iraq): Baghdad and Al Basrah.

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Russian Timeline with Short Biographies


Iran Timeline with Short Biographies


Iran Timeline #2


CIA data on current constitutions throughout world