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"value": "5 years" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "12 years" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "40 years" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "27 years" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "Mandela served 27 years in prison for leading anti-apartheid resistance before his 1994 election as president.", "tags": [ "apartheid", "nelson mandela", "south africa" ], "uid": "c714n0m5i5l2" }, { "id": "ot-cov-l12-decolonisation-and-non-alignment-4", "shape": "mcq", "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Which organization led anti-apartheid resistance in South Africa alongside Nelson Mandela?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The African National Congress (ANC)" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM)" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The National Liberation Front (FLN)" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Pan-Africanist Congress of Nigeria" } ], "correctIndex": 0, "explanation": "The African National Congress (ANC), with Mandela, led the long 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doctrines underpinned imperial consolidation under Chandragupta Maurya, founder of the Mauryan Empire.", "tags": [ "mauryan-empire", "chandragupta-maurya", "statecraft" ], "uid": "t7mv2i12tds8w" }, { "id": "ot-cov-l04-islamic-caliphate-and-scholarship-1", "shape": "mcq", "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Why did the Abbasid Caliphate found Baghdad's planned 'Round City' in 762 CE?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "To isolate the caliphate's court from merchant activity" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "To serve strictly as a fortified frontier military garrison" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "To relocate the Islamic calendar's starting epoch" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "To anchor the capital at a Mesopotamian trade crossroads" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "Baghdad's circular plan, founded in 762 CE by Caliph al-Mansur, placed the Abbasid capital at a Mesopotamian crossroads, anchoring it as a hub of trans-regional commerce.", "tags": [ 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"shape": "mcq", "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "What specific farming technique allowed the Classic Maya to support dense populations in tropical wetlands?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "Andean-style terrace farming on mountain slopes" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Large-scale nomadic pastoral cattle herding" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Rain-fed monoculture maize fields without irrigation" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "Engineered raised-field, chinampa-style wetland cultivation" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "The Classic Maya engineered raised, chinampa-style wetland fields to farm productively despite poor rainforest soils.", "tags": [ "classic-maya", "agriculture", "mesoamerica" ], "uid": "ymuzh4un6reu" }, { "id": "ot-cov-l05-trans-saharan-and-mesoamerican-networks-2", "shape": "mcq", "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "Why did the Classic Maya rely on engineered raised-field farming rather than simple rain-fed plots?" }, 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"Permanent exemption from future military conscription" } ], "correctIndex": 2, "explanation": "The Paiza passport tablet granted official travelers and merchants immunity, provisions, and horses at Yam relay stations across the empire.", "tags": [ "mongol-empire", "yam-system", "paiza" ], "uid": "vxo95va5hp8t" }, { "id": "ot-cov-l09-atlantic-revolutions-and-popular-sovereignty-1", "shape": "mcq", "prompt": { "modality": "text", "value": "What document, ratified in July 1776, proclaimed unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?" }, "options": [ { "modality": "text", "value": "The Articles of Confederation" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom" }, { "modality": "text", "value": "The United States Declaration of Independence" } ], "correctIndex": 3, "explanation": "The Continental Congress ratified the Declaration of Independence in 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