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What kind of places to ride bikes does Tucson have?
marked bike routes, signal crossings, on-street bike lanes, mountain-biking trails, and dedicated shared-use paths
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What kind of government does Armenia have?
democratic
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Who brought Armenia to success in the 1st century BC?
Tigranes the Great
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What religion did Armenia support?
Christianity
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What two empires did Armenia belong to in the beginning of the 5th century?
Byzantine and Sasanian
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When was Urartu created?
860 BC
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Which two empires ruled Armenia between the 16 and 19th Century?
Ottoman and successive Iranian empires
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Who took over Eastern Armenia in the 19th century?
Russian Empire
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When did the Armenian Genocide occure?
World War I
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When did Armenia become part of the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic?
1920
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When did Armenia gain its independence?
1991
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What name did Armenia gain it's name from?
Aram
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When did Xenophon visit Armenia?
401 BC
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Who first referenced the Armenians?
Hecataeus of Miletus
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What language does Armenias resemble most?
Persians
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When was the capital of Armenia established?
782 BC
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What is the capital of Armenia?
Yerevan
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Who ruled Armenia in 782 BC?
King Argishti I
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The founding of which city was the first to be ever recorded?
Yerevan
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Under who did Areminia become fully sovereign?
King Artaxias I
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What Empire did the Orontid Dynasty belong to?
Achaemenid Empire
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When did Armenia reach it's peak?
between 95 and 66 BC
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Which ruler is responsible for Armenias prosperity?
Tigranes the Great
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Who established the Arsacid dynasty of Armenia?
Tiridates I
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What made Armenia so easily invadable?
strategic location between two continents
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Who ruled the Assyrians between 669-627 BC?
Ashurbanipal
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When was the Marzpanate era?
428–636
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Who ruled the Emirate of Armenia?
Prince of Armenia
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When did the Principality of Armenia end?
884
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Under which ruler did the Principality of Armenia gain its independence?
King Ashot I Bagratuni
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Where was the Principality of Armenia centered?
Dvin
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Who vanquished Bagratid Armenia?
the Byzantine Empire
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When did the Seljuk Turks beat the Byzantines?
1071
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When was Cilicia founded?
6 January 1198
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What was the outcome of the Battle of Manzikert for the Seljuk Turks?
conquered Armenia
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Where did Roupen find refuge?
Tarsus of Cilicia
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Which family overthrew the Seljuk Turks?
the Zakarid
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What principality did the Zakarid family form?
Zakarid Armenia
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What area did the Orbelians and Zakarids command together?
Syunik and Vayots Dzor
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What area did the Hasan-jalalians command?
Artsakh and Utik
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When did the Seljuk Empire experience it's decline?
early 12th century
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Which empires seperated Armenia?
Ottoman Empire and Safavid Empire
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Who controlled Western Armenia between the 16 and 19th Century?
Ottoman
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Who controlled Eastern Armenia between the 16 and 19th Century?
Iranian Safavid, Afsharid and Qajar empires
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How long did the Turco-Iranian rivalry last?
century
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How many Armenians were slaughtered between 1894-1896
80,000 to 300,000
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What prompted the state-sponsored slaughter of Armenians?
pushing for more rights
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What nicknames was Sultan 'Abdu'l-Hamid II given?
"Red Sultan" or "Bloody Sultan."
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What was the name given to the slaughter of the Armenians between 1894-1896?
Hamidian massacres
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What type of social system was in place under the Ottoman Empire?
Muslim
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What is another name for the Armenian Revolutionary Federation?
Dashnaktsutyun
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What was the Dashnaks objective?
creating a "free, independent and unified" Armenia
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When did the Dashnaktsutyun originate?
1890s
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Which Dashnak groups helped protect Armenian citizens?
fedayi
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When did the Adana massacre take place?
April 1909
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How many Armenians died in the Adana Massacre?
20,000–30,000
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When was the Armenian Reform package introduced?
1914
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When was Sultan Hamid unseated?
1908
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Who unseated Sultan Hamid?
Young Turk Revolution
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What instigated conflict between the Ottoman and Russian Empire?
World War I
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When did the Tehcir Law come to fruition?
29 May 1915
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Where did the Armenian Genocide occur?
Anatolia
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Which army had a group of Armenian volunteers fighting for them?
Russian Army
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What do the Armenians see the events of 1915-1917 as?
state-sponsored mass killings, or genocide
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How many phases were there to the Armenian Genocide?
two phases
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What did the first phase of the Armenian Genocide involve?
killing of the able-bodied male population
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What did the second phase of the Armenian Genocide involve?
deportation of women, children, the elderly and infirm
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Where did the Armenian Genocide death marches push the deportees to?
Syrian desert
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How many Armenians died during the second phase of the Armenian Genocide between 1915-1916??
600,000
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What is the estimated sum of people who died during the Armenian Genocide?
between 1 and 1.5 million
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Who contests the existence of the Armenian Genocide?
Turkish authorities
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Who put together a report about the Armenian Genocide?
Arnold J. Toynbee
[ "Armenia\n\nTurkish authorities deny the genocide took place to this day. The Armenian Genocide is acknowledged to have been one of the first modern genocides. According to the research conducted by Arnold J. Toynbee, an estimated 600,000 Armenians died during deportation from 1915–16). This figure, however, accoun...
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When was Toynbee's report put together?
24th May 1916
[ "Armenia\n\nTurkish authorities deny the genocide took place to this day. The Armenian Genocide is acknowledged to have been one of the first modern genocides. According to the research conducted by Arnold J. Toynbee, an estimated 600,000 Armenians died during deportation from 1915–16). This figure, however, accoun...
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Who was in charge of the Russian Caucasus Army of Imperial forces?
Nikolai Yudenich
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Who was the leader of the Armenian militia?
Andranik Ozanian
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When was the Bolshevik Revolution?
1917
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Who formed the Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic?
Eastern Armenia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan
[ "Armenia\n\nAlthough the Russian Caucasus Army of Imperial forces commanded by Nikolai Yudenich and Armenians in volunteer units and Armenian militia led by Andranik Ozanian and Tovmas Nazarbekian succeeded in gaining most of Ottoman Armenia during World War I, their gains were lost with the Bolshevik Revolution of...
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When did the Dashnaktsutyun declare independence?
May 1918
[ "Armenia\n\nAlthough the Russian Caucasus Army of Imperial forces commanded by Nikolai Yudenich and Armenians in volunteer units and Armenian militia led by Andranik Ozanian and Tovmas Nazarbekian succeeded in gaining most of Ottoman Armenia during World War I, their gains were lost with the Bolshevik Revolution of...
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When was the Treaty of Sevres signed?
10 August 1920
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What is another name for Ottoman Armenia?
Wilsonian Armenia
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Which US president specified the new Armenian borders?
President Woodrow Wilson
[ "Armenia\n\nAt the end of the war, the victorious powers sought to divide up the Ottoman Empire. Signed between the Allied and Associated Powers and Ottoman Empire at Sèvres on 10 August 1920, the Treaty of Sèvres promised to maintain the existence of the Armenian republic and to attach the former territories of Ot...
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When did Cilicia declare independence?
5 August 1920
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Who signed the Treaty of Sevres?
Allied and Associated Powers and Ottoman Empire
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When was the Treaty of Alexandropol sanctioned?
2 December 1920
[ "Armenia\n\nIn 1920, Turkish nationalist forces invaded the fledgling Armenian republic from the east. Turkish forces under the command of Kazım Karabekir captured Armenian territories that Russia had annexed in the aftermath of the 1877–1878 Russo-Turkish War and occupied the old city of Alexandropol (present-day ...
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What city did current day Gyumri used to be called?
Alexandropol
[ "Armenia\n\nIn 1920, Turkish nationalist forces invaded the fledgling Armenian republic from the east. Turkish forces under the command of Kazım Karabekir captured Armenian territories that Russia had annexed in the aftermath of the 1877–1878 Russo-Turkish War and occupied the old city of Alexandropol (present-day ...
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Who led the Soviet Eleventh Army?
Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze
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When did the Armenian republic breakdown?
4 December
[ "Armenia\n\nIn 1920, Turkish nationalist forces invaded the fledgling Armenian republic from the east. Turkish forces under the command of Kazım Karabekir captured Armenian territories that Russia had annexed in the aftermath of the 1877–1878 Russo-Turkish War and occupied the old city of Alexandropol (present-day ...
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What year did Turkish nationalists seize the Armenian Republic?
1920
[ "Armenia\n\nIn 1920, Turkish nationalist forces invaded the fledgling Armenian republic from the east. Turkish forces under the command of Kazım Karabekir captured Armenian territories that Russia had annexed in the aftermath of the 1877–1878 Russo-Turkish War and occupied the old city of Alexandropol (present-day ...
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When was the Transcaucasian SFSR formed?
4 March 1922
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The Soviet Union gained control over which city following the Treaty of Kars?
Batumi
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What did Turkey gain from the Treaty of Kars?
sovereignty over the cities of Kars, Ardahan, and Iğdır
[ "Armenia\n\nArmenia was annexed by Bolshevist Russia and along with Georgia and Azerbaijan, it was incorporated into the Soviet Union as part of the Transcaucasian SFSR (TSFSR) on 4 March 1922. With this annexation, the Treaty of Alexandropol was superseded by the Turkish-Soviet Treaty of Kars. In the agreement, Tu...
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Who annexed Armenia?
Bolshevist Russia
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Who succeeded Vladimir Lenin?
Joseph Stalin
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Which three parts make up the TSFSR?
Armenian SSR, Azerbaijan SSR, and Georgian SSR
[ "Armenia\n\nThe TSFSR existed from 1922 to 1936, when it was divided up into three separate entities (Armenian SSR, Azerbaijan SSR, and Georgian SSR). Armenians enjoyed a period of relative stability under Soviet rule. They received medicine, food, and other provisions from Moscow, and communist rule proved to be a...
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When did the TSFSR break up into three parts?
1936
[ "Armenia\n\nThe TSFSR existed from 1922 to 1936, when it was divided up into three separate entities (Armenian SSR, Azerbaijan SSR, and Georgian SSR). Armenians enjoyed a period of relative stability under Soviet rule. They received medicine, food, and other provisions from Moscow, and communist rule proved to be a...
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Who provided the Armenians with supplies?
Moscow
[ "Armenia\n\nThe TSFSR existed from 1922 to 1936, when it was divided up into three separate entities (Armenian SSR, Azerbaijan SSR, and Georgian SSR). Armenians enjoyed a period of relative stability under Soviet rule. They received medicine, food, and other provisions from Moscow, and communist rule proved to be a...
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Who succeeded Stalin?
Nikita Khruschev
[ "Armenia\n\nFears decreased when Stalin died in 1953 and Nikita Khruschev emerged as the Soviet Union's new leader. Soon, life in Soviet Armenia began to see rapid improvement. The church, which suffered greatly under Stalin, was revived when Catholicos Vazgen I assumed the duties of his office in 1955. In 1967, a ...
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When did Stalin pass away?
1953
[ "Armenia\n\nFears decreased when Stalin died in 1953 and Nikita Khruschev emerged as the Soviet Union's new leader. Soon, life in Soviet Armenia began to see rapid improvement. The church, which suffered greatly under Stalin, was revived when Catholicos Vazgen I assumed the duties of his office in 1955. In 1967, a ...
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When did Vazgen acquire his position?
1955
[ "Armenia\n\nFears decreased when Stalin died in 1953 and Nikita Khruschev emerged as the Soviet Union's new leader. Soon, life in Soviet Armenia began to see rapid improvement. The church, which suffered greatly under Stalin, was revived when Catholicos Vazgen I assumed the duties of his office in 1955. In 1967, a ...
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Where is the memorial for the Armenian Genocide?
Yerevan
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