2023-2024学年IHBB亚洲区的首次线上竞赛在上周末经过两天角逐，已经落下帷幕。有初次参赛的同学反馈线上强手如云，而与各国各地区的选手切磋也是非常难得的体验。本年度的下一场IHBB线上竞赛即将于2024年5月4日-5月5日举办，同样是周末两天时间，感兴趣的同学们可以在4月20日之前进行线上报名。
与此同时，许多队伍和选手也已经在备战接下来将要举行的几场IHBB亚洲区线下比赛，我们为大家整理了同学们比较关心的几个热门赛区：
(注：以上信息来源于IHBB赛事官网，截止至2024年1月12日，后续若有信息变动，以官网为准)
第一季度的比赛多数会采用赛题集Beta。虽然官网目前仍只有秋季的Gamma组赛前学习指南(与美国赛区NHBB的高中组Question Set C相同), 但美国赛区NHBB已经公布了Question Set B的要点指南，有计划参赛的同学们可以提前浏览，作为备战亚洲区Beta组的参考。以下是详细内容：
African History
1.The Shona is the largest ethnic group inhabiting Zimbabwe.
2.Tanzania was formed after Tanganyika merged with Zanzibarin 1964.
3. The Angolan Civil Warwas a 26-year conflict between the communist MPLA and the anti-communist UNITA.
Ancient History
1.The Ark of the Covenantis a holy relic, which, according to the Book of Exodus, contains the stone tablets of the Ten Commandments.
2. Belisarius(500-565) served as military commander under Justinian I. Known as “The Last Roman General,” Belisarius conquered the Vandal Kingdom in the Vandalic War, as well as Italy during the Gothic War.
3. The Maurya Empirewas an ancient Indian empire that was founded in 322 BCE by Chandragupta.
Asian History
1. The 1948 Arab-Israeli Warresulted in Jordanian rule of the West Bank and Egyptian occupation of the Gaza Strip.
2.Lee Kuan Yew(1923-2015) served as the first prime minister of Singapore from 1959 to 1990.
3.In 1869, Ezo was renamed Hokkaidofollowing the Meiji Restoration.
4.Libya was ruled by Muammar Gaddafi(1942-2011) from 1969 until his assassination in 2011.
5.The Manchus founded the Qing dynasty, which was the last imperial dynasty in China.
European History
1.Roman villas such as Pompeii and Herculaneum were destroyed in the aftermath of the Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79 CE.
2.James Cook(1728-1779) is credited as the first European to make contact with the Hawaiian islands and the eastern coast of Australia. He was fatally stabbed after he attempted to hold the Hawaiian Chief, Kalaniʻōpuʻu, in exchange for a longboat.
3.The Magna Cartawas a 1215 document signed by King John of Englandin response to the demands of his barons.
4.Queen Victoria(1819-1901) was the longest-reigning British monarch until she was surpassed by Elizabeth II in September 2015.
5.Basil II was known as the “Bulgar Slayer” after he led the Byzantine Empirein defeating the First Bulgarian Empireat the Battle of Kleidion.
6.The Norman conquest of England was precipitated after William the Conqueror defeated Harold Godwinson in the Battle of Hastings.
7.Marco Polo(1254-1324) was a Venetian merchant who journeyed to Asia by traveling on the Silk Road. He documented his adventures in The Travels of Marco Polo.
8.The Anschlussrefers to Austria’s annexation into the German Reich in 1938.
9.Charles de Gaulle(1890-1970) was the president of France between 1959 to 1969. He previously led the French Free Forces during World War II.
10.Golda Meir(1898-1978) became the first and only woman to serve as prime minister of Israel, which she held from 1969 until 1974.
11.The Visigothswere Germanic people who sacked Rome in 410 CE under Alaric I.
12.Otto von Bismarck(1815-1898) was a key figure in the unification of Germany in 1871 and served as the nation’s first chancellor.
13.Hernando de Soto(1500-1542) was a Spanish explorer who was the first European to cross the Mississippi River.
14.Philip V’s ascension as king following the death of Charles II in 1700 led to the War of the Spanish Succession.
15.Hermann Göring(1893-1946) was a prominent figure of the Nazi Party who served as the Supreme Commander of the Luftwaffe, the German air force.
16.Anne Boleyn(1501-1536) was the second wife of Henry VIII and mother of Elizabeth I. Boleyn was the first wife of Henry VIII to be executed, the second being Catherine Howard.
17.Leif Erikson(970s - 1018 or 1025) was a Norse Viking who was believed to have been the first European to reach the Americas.
18.Niels Bohr(1885-1962) was a Danish physicist who theorized that electrons move around an atom’s nucleus in fixed orbits.
19.Jacques-Louis David produced one of the most commonly reproduced images of Napoleon Bonaparte(1769-1821) with a paintingdepicting him on horseback crossing the Alps.
20.The Socialist Republic of Romaniadissolved as a result of the 1989 Christmas Revolution, which included the overthrow and execution of dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu.
Latin American and Caribbean History
1.The 1828 Treaty of Montevideo secured the independence of Uruguayafter a three-year conflict with Brazil and the dissolution of its federation with Argentina.
2.The GuatemalanRevolutionended in a 1954 coup d’état which resulted in the overthrow of Jacobo Árbenz.
3.Francisco “Pancho” Villa(1878-1923) was a Mexican revolutionary who was a key figure in the ousting of President Porfirio Díaz from power. Villa’s capture was the subject of a 10-month U.S. expedition after he led an attack on Columbus, New Mexico.
4.The War of the Triple Alliancewas fought between Paraguay and a union that consisted of Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay.
5.Brazilgained independence from Portugal on September 7, 1822 under the leadership of Emperor Pedro I.
U.S. History
1.To this day, Wiliam Henry Harrison(1773-1841) has served the shortest term as president of the United States, only serving a month in office.
2.In 1995, the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was the target of a domestic terrorist truck bombing.
3.The Scopes Monkey Trialwas a 1925 legal case which saw lawyers Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan argue about whether John Scopes should be prosecuted for teaching human evolution in a state-funded school.
4.The British captured the Charlestown Peninsula during the Siege of Boston as the result of the Battle of Bunker Hill.
5.The arrest of Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks in 1955 helped kickstart the Montgomery Bus Boycottin Alabama.
6.George C. Marshall(1880-1959) was the 50th Secretary of State and named a post-World War II plan that provided economic recovery to Western Europe.
7.Sam Houston(1793-1863) served as the first and third president of the Republic of Texas.
8.Harriet Tubman(1822-1913) was an abolitionist who undertook 13 missions as conductor of the Underground Railroad.
9.The first secretary of the treasuryof the U.S. was Alexander Hamilton. The position has been held by Janet Yellen since January 2021
10.Eugene V. Debs(1855-1926) unsuccessfully ran for president of the United States as a five-time candidate for the Socialist Party of America. He ran for president for the last time in 1920 while in prison.
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