In 1969 General Siad Barre led a military coup in this country on the horn of Africa
Shaka increased the population of this tribe by absorbing his defeated enemies into it
This west African country takes its name from a trading empire that once included Timbuktu
In the 1500s the Portuguese transported Angolans as slaves to this South American colony
In 1869 the U.S. Transcontinental Railroad was completed & this canal opened in the Mideast
He resigned as head of China's government in 1959 but remained head of the Chinese Communists
As of 1206 he formally wore the title "Great Khan of the Mongols"
When this country won its independence from Great Britain in 1921, Ulster didn't go with it
In 1993 this country split into Slovakia & the Czech Republic
Wladyslaw Gomulka was first secretary of this country's Communist party from 1956-1970