NY Regents 10.9: Globalization

This event took place at CERN, the particle physics laboratory straddling the border between France and Switzerland near Geneva, nestled between the Jura Mountains to the northwest and the Alps to…

This was Rio de Janeiro, Brazil — a city hugged between dramatic granite peaks and a wide South Atlantic bay on South America's southeastern coast, exactly the coastal setting the title clue…

Maastricht, a city in the southern Netherlands — where the Rhine delta country stretches between France and Germany, close to the North Sea coast — was where the treaty came into force on November 1…

Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, sits on the Potomac River along the eastern seaboard of North America — the continent that stretches from the Arctic tundra of Canada in the north…

This is Kigali, the capital of Rwanda — a densely hilled, landlocked country sitting on the high plateau between the Congo basin and the East African Rift Valley, almost exactly at the continent's…

Geneva, Switzerland — a landlocked city tucked between the Alps to the south and the Jura Mountains to the northwest, close to the borders of France and Germany — is where the World Trade…

The Roslin Institute sits near Edinburgh, Scotland — on the eastern side of Great Britain, just south of the Firth of Forth where the North Sea cuts into the island's coast. In 1996, scientists there…

Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, sits near the head of the Gulf of Thailand on the long Indochinese Peninsula. In July 1997, Thailand's currency, the baht, collapsed after the government could no…

Seattle, Washington, in the United States, is the city on Puget Sound — the deep inland sea carved into the Pacific Northwest coast, with the Cascade Range rising sharply to the east. In late 1999…

The target of this 78-day air campaign was Brussels, Belgium — the headquarters of the alliance that ordered the strikes, located in the low-lying heart of Western Europe between the North Sea coast…

This is New York City, on the northeastern coast of the United States, where the Hudson River empties into the Atlantic at one of the world's great natural harbours — exactly the dense island skyline…

This is Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan — a city sitting in a high mountain valley of the Hindu Kush, deep in the heart of Central Asia, exactly where those rugged ranges seal the country off from…

The ceremony took place in Doha, the capital of Qatar — a small peninsula projecting northward into the Persian Gulf from the Arabian coast, flanked by Saudi Arabia to the south and Bahrain across…

This is Baghdad, the capital of Iraq — a city built on the Tigris River in the flat, sun-baked lowlands of Mesopotamia, the ancient land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in the Middle East. In…

This is Banda Aceh, the northernmost city of Sumatra, Indonesia — sitting at the very tip of the island where the Indian Ocean and the Andaman Sea converge, exactly where the title clue pointed. On…

The Punggye-ri nuclear test site sits in the mountainous northeast of North Korea — a peninsula jutting southward from the Asian mainland, squeezed between China to the north, Russia at its…

Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, sits on the northeastern seaboard of North America — on the Atlantic coastal plain just east of the Appalachian Mountains, near where the Potomac…

The event unfolded in Sidi Bouzid, a provincial town in central Tunisia — sitting on the high interior plateau of North Africa, roughly halfway between the Sahara Desert to the south and the…

Paris, the capital of France, sits along the Seine River in the heart of northwestern Europe — exactly where the broad North European Plain meets the Channel coast facing England. In 2015…

Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, sits on the Dnieper River in the heart of Eastern Europe — a vast, flat country on the North European Plain, wedged between the Carpathian Mountains to the west and…