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  1. Complete the sentence about History of Uzbekistan with the correct year: In ______, national delimitation created the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic as an independent republic within the Soviet Union…
  2. Complete the sentence about History of Uzbekistan with the correct year: Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, it declared independence as the Republic of Uzbekistan on 31 August ______.
  3. Complete the sentence about Karakhanid Khanate with the correct year: The Khanate conquered Transoxiana in Central Asia and ruled it independently between 999 and ______.
  4. Complete the sentence about Khwarazmian dynasty with the correct year: During a revolt in ______, Khwarezmian rebels murdered Abu'l-Abbas Ma'mun and his wife, Hurra-ji, sister of the Ghaznavid sultan…
  5. Complete the sentence about Genghis Khan with the correct year: Toghrul came to view Temüjin as a threat and launched a surprise attack on him in ______.
  6. Complete the sentence about Genghis Khan with the correct year: Temüjin formally adopted the title "Genghis Khan", the meaning of which is uncertain, at an assembly in ______.
  7. Complete the sentence about Genghis Khan with the correct year: In ______, he led a large-scale raid against the neighbouring Western Xia, who agreed to Mongol terms the following year.
  8. Complete the sentence about Genghis Khan with the correct year: In ______, Genghis died while subduing the rebellious Western Xia.
  9. Complete the sentence about Siege of Bukhara with the correct year: The siege of Bukhara took place in February ______, during the Mongol invasion of the Khwarazmian Empire.
  10. Complete the sentence about Siege of Bukhara with the correct year: The Po-i-Kalyan mosque, which had been commissioned in ______, was one of the largest in the world, and contained the Kalyan minaret…
  11. Complete the sentence about Chagatai Khanate with the correct year: With the division of the Mongol Empire after ______, it became a functionally separate khanate.
  12. Complete the sentence with the correct year: From ______, the Chagatais progressively lost Transoxiana to the Timurids.
  13. Complete the sentence about Chagatai Khanate with the correct year: In ______, the remaining Chagatai domains lost their independence to the Dzungar Khanate.
  14. Complete the sentence about Chagatai Khanate with the correct year: In addition, the Catalan Atlas of ______ refers to the area corresponding to Chagatai Khanate as "Imperium Medorum", a possible alte…
  15. Complete the sentence about Timur with the correct year: Writing in ______, John III, Archbishop of Sultaniyya, claimed that she was of lowly origin.
  16. Complete the sentence about Timurid dynasty with the correct year: In ______, the capital Herat fell to Uzbek Khanate of Bukhara under Muhammad Shaybani Khan.
  17. Complete the sentence about Timurid dynasty with the correct year: By ______, Samarkand, Bukhara and Hissar were conquered by the Uzbek Khanate of Bukhara under Muhammad Shaybani Khan.
  18. Complete the sentence about Timurid dynasty with the correct year: In ______, Ferghana fell to Uzbek Khanate of Bukhara under Muhammad Shaybani Khan.
  19. Complete the sentence about Timurid dynasty with the correct year: In ______, Balkh fell to Uzbek Khanate of Bukhara under Muhammad Shaybani Khan.
  20. Complete the sentence about Timurid dynasty with the correct year: In ______, Babur moved into India and conquered the Dehli Sultanate, establishing the Mughal empire.
  21. Complete the sentence about Ulugh Beg with the correct year: In ______, he was named the sovereign ruler of the whole of Mavarannahr.
  22. Complete the sentence about Ulugh Beg with the correct year: In ______, Ulugh Beg built an enormous observatory, similar to Tycho Brahe's later Uraniborg as well as Taqi al-Din's observatory in Consta…
  23. Complete the sentence about Shah Rukh with the correct year: Shah Rukh was born on 20 August ______, the youngest of Timur's four sons.
  24. Complete the sentence about Shah Rukh with the correct year: Shah Rukh appears to have participated to the Iranian campaigns of Timur when in returned from Transoxonia in ______.
  25. Complete the sentence about Shah Rukh with the correct year: In ______, Shah Rukh was appointed governor of Khorasan by his father, with his viceregal capital being Herat.
  26. Complete the sentence about Shah Rukh with the correct year: Shah Rukh, alongside most of the royal family, accompanied Timur west in his campaign against the Ottoman Empire, which culminated in the B…
  27. Complete the sentence about Babur with the correct year: In ______, he briefly recaptured both areas but his attempt failed when the Uzbek prince Muhammad Shaybani defeated him and founded the Khanate…
  28. Complete the sentence about Babur with the correct year: In ______, the exiled Babur conquered Kabul, which was under the putative rule of Abd ur-Razaq Mirza, the infant heir of his uncle Ulugh Beg II…
  29. Complete the sentence about Babur with the correct year: Babur was born on 14 February ______ in the city of Andijan, Fergana Valley, contemporary Uzbekistan.
  30. Complete the sentence about Muhammad Shaybani with the correct year: Continuing the policies of his grandfather, Abu'l-Khayr Khan, Shaybani ousted the Timurids from their capital Samarkand in ______.
  31. Complete the sentence about Muhammad Shaybani with the correct year: Shaybani conquered Bukhara in ______ and established the Shaybanid Dynasty of the Khanate of Bukhara.
  32. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, his ambassadors arrived at the court of the Ming emperor.
  33. Complete the sentence about Khanate of Bukhara with the correct year: After his death in ______, the Khanate was controlled by the non-Chingissid descendants of the Uzbek emir Khudayar Bi, through the…
  34. Complete the sentence about Khanate of Bukhara with the correct year: The ancestor of the ruling Abu'l-Khayrids, Abu'l Khayr Khan, established an empire that by the time of his death in ______ stretch…
  35. Complete the sentence about Khanate of Bukhara with the correct year: A turning point in the conflict between the two was the Battle of Sar-i Pul in the spring of ______, which resulted in victory for…
  36. Complete the sentence about Khanate of Bukhara with the correct year: In ______, Muhammad Shaybani took Urgench after a 10-month siege, resulting in the annexation of Khwarazm.
  37. Complete the sentence about Khanate of Bukhara with the correct year: Bayqara died in ______ and was succeeded by his two sons, Badi' al-Zaman Mirza and Muzaffar Husayn Mirza.
  38. Complete the sentence about Khanate of Bukhara with the correct year: In ______ Shaybani captured Balkh, and the allied Timurid force disintegrated on its own.
  39. Complete the sentence about Khanate of Khiva with the correct year: In ______, the Khanate of Khiva was greatly reduced in size and became a Russian protectorate.
  40. Complete the sentence about Khanate of Khiva with the correct year: Before ______, Khorezm was nominally dependent on the Timurid Sultan Husayn Mirza Bayqara based in Khorasan.
  41. Complete the sentence about Khanate of Kokand with the correct year: Despite these efforts, its weaponry was generally inferior to the forces of the Russian Empire, who abolished the khanate in ______…
  42. Complete the sentence about Khanate of Kokand with the correct year: In ______, Abd al-Rahim was murdered in Khojand, after a period of suffering from severe mental disorder and refusing to step down…
  43. Complete the sentence about Khanate of Kokand with the correct year: In ______, Abd al-Karim Biy had the Kokand fortress constructed at the ruins of the old fortress Eski Orda.
  44. Complete the sentence about Emirate of Bukhara with the correct year: In ______, it ceased to exist with the establishment of the Bukharan People's Soviet Republic.
  45. Complete the sentence about Emirate of Bukhara with the correct year: The Emirate of Bukhara was officially created in ______, upon the assumption of rulership by the Manghit emir, Shah Murad.
  46. Complete the sentence about Emirate of Bukhara with the correct year: In ______, after Nadir Shah's death, the ataliq Muhammad Rahim Bi murdered Abulfayz Khan and his son, ending the Janid dynasty.
  47. Complete the sentence about Emirate of Bukhara with the correct year: In ______, the emirate lost a war with Imperial Russia, which had aspirations of conquest in the region.
  48. Complete the sentence about Emirate of Bukhara with the correct year: In ______, the remainder became a Russian protectorate, and was soon surrounded by the Governorate-General of Turkestan.
  49. Complete the sentence about Russian conquest of Central Asia with the correct year: Although the Russian Empire collapsed during World War I, the Russian sphere of influence remained in what was Sovie…
  50. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, Ivan Likharev went upriver and founded Ust-Kamenogorsk.
  51. Complete the sentence about Russian conquest of Central Asia with the correct year: In ______, Russia conquered the Astrakhan Khanate on the north shore of the Caspian Sea.
  52. Complete the sentence about Russian Turkestan with the correct year: After subjugating the Kazakh hordes, Russian forces captured key Kokandi forts, including Ak-Mechet in ______.
  53. Complete the sentence about Russian Turkestan with the correct year: In ______, Turkestan was made a separate Governorate-General, under its first Governor-General, Konstantin Petrovich von Kaufman.
  54. Complete the sentence about Mikhail Skobelev with the correct year: Skobelev was born in Saint Petersburg on 29 September ______, at the Peter and Paul Fortress, where his grandfather was the commanda…
  55. Complete the sentence about Konstantin von Kaufman with the correct year: In ______, he became director-general of engineers at the War Office, assisting Minister of War Count Dmitry Milyutin in the r…
  56. Complete the sentence about Konstantin von Kaufman with the correct year: During the Khivan campaign of ______, he attacked Khanate of Khiva, took the capital, and forced the Khan to become a vassal o…
  57. Complete the sentence about Jadids with the correct year: Beginning in ______, the tsarist government in Turkestan established "Russo-native" schools.
  58. Complete the sentence about Jadids with the correct year: In ______, for example, less than 300 Turks attended Russian higher primary schools in Central Asia.
  59. Complete the sentence about Jadids with the correct year: In ______, Ismail Gaspirali founded the first, the very first "new method" school in Crimea.
  60. Complete the sentence about Basmachi movement with the correct year: The movement's roots lay in the anti-conscription violence of ______ which erupted when the Russian Empire began to draft Muslims f…
  61. Complete the sentence about Basmachi movement with the correct year: In the months following the October ______ Revolution, the Bolsheviks seized power in many parts of the Russian Empire and the Russ…
  62. Complete the sentence about Basmachi movement with the correct year: By ______ the Red Army's extensive campaigns had dealt the Basmachis many defeats.
  63. Complete the sentence about Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic with the correct year: From ______, Pan-Turkist ideologues like Ismail Gasprinski aimed to suppress differences among the peo…
  64. Complete the sentence about Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic with the correct year: The Turkestan Soviet Federative Republic was officially proclaimed on 30 April ______.
  65. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The latter group won, as national delimitation in Central Asia began in ______.
  66. Complete the sentence about Bukharan People's Soviet Republic with the correct year: In ______, the Russian Empire forced the Emirate of Bukhara to accept protectorate status.
  67. Complete the sentence about Bukharan People's Soviet Republic with the correct year: In March ______, the Young Bukharan activists informed the Bolsheviks that the Bukharan people were ready for the r…
  68. Complete the sentence about Bukharan People's Soviet Republic with the correct year: By August ______ the Turkestan Bolsheviks advocated the liquidation of the Bukhara Emirate as a centre for counter…
  69. Complete the sentence about Bukharan People's Soviet Republic with the correct year: On 3 August ______ the Bolsheviks and the Young Bukharans agreed to act together on the understanding that the Youn…
  70. Complete the sentence about Bukharan People's Soviet Republic with the correct year: On 16 August ______ the 4th Congress of Bukharan Communist Party held in Bolshevik-controlled Chardjui decided to o…
  71. Complete the sentence about Bukharan People's Soviet Republic with the correct year: On 28 August ______, an army of well-disciplined and well equipped Red Army troops under the command of Bolshevik g…
  72. Complete the sentence about Bukharan People's Soviet Republic with the correct year: On 14 September ______, the All-Bukharan Revolutionary Committee was set up, headed by A.
  73. Complete the sentence about Khorezm People's Soviet Republic with the correct year: The Khorezm People's Soviet Republic was the state created as the successor to the Khanate of Khiva in February ____…
  74. Complete the sentence about Khorezm People's Soviet Republic with the correct year: On 20 October ______, it was transformed into the Khorezm Socialist Soviet Republic..
  75. Complete the sentence about Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic with the correct year: Beginning 20 June ______, the Uzbek SSR adopted the Declaration of State Sovereignty within its borders.
  76. Complete the sentence about Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic with the correct year: With the introduction of the Yañalif-based Latin alphabet in ______, this became Ɵzʙekistan Ьçtьmaьj Şora Çymhyrijəti…
  77. Complete the sentence about Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic with the correct year: With the collapse of the Soviet Union in ______, the Uzbek SSR was renamed the Republic of Uzbekistan upon its declar…
  78. Complete the sentence about Sharof Rashidov with the correct year: In ______ he began his career as a deputy in the Supreme Soviet of the Uzbek SSR, where he served as a deputy in the 2nd to 9th convo…
  79. Complete the sentence about Islam Karimov with the correct year: In ______, he earned a master's degree in economics from Tashkent State University of Economics.
  80. Complete the sentence about Shavkat Mirziyoyev with the correct year: Mirziyoyev was born on 24 July ______ in the Jizzakh Region of the Uzbek SSR.
  81. Complete the sentence about Shavkat Mirziyoyev with the correct year: O‘rinbek Yoqubov, a cousin of Miromon, being a veteran of World War II, became a Hero of the Soviet Union in April ______.
  82. Complete the sentence about Oliy Majlis with the correct year: On 31 August ______, during an extraordinary 6th session of the Supreme Soviet, the independence and sovereignty of Uzbekistan was procla…
  83. Complete the sentence about Oliy Majlis with the correct year: In ______, the Soviet was renamed to reflect the country's new independence status.
  84. Complete the sentence about Oliy Majlis with the correct year: After the last convocation, the Supreme Soviet was dissolved and converted into the Supreme Assembly in February ______.
  85. Complete the sentence about Oliy Majlis with the correct year: Since ______ the Senate and Legislative Chamber have each had their own presiding officer.
  86. Complete the sentence about Politics of Uzbekistan with the correct year: In ______ the PDPU retained the dominant position in the executive and legislative branches of government that the Communist P…
  87. Complete the sentence about Politics of Uzbekistan with the correct year: The constitution ratified in December ______ reaffirmed that Uzbekistan was a secular state.
  88. Complete the sentence about Armed Forces of Uzbekistan with the correct year: On 2 July ______ a Presidential Decree established a Ministry of Defence to supersede the Ministry of Defence Affairs.
  89. Complete the sentence about Armed Forces of Uzbekistan with the correct year: In ______, they established the joint Armed Forces Academy, to train officers of all branches.
  90. Complete the sentence about Armed Forces of Uzbekistan with the correct year: In January ______, the 108th Motorized Rifle Division was disbanded, and its military units were incorporated into the 1st…
  91. Complete the sentence about Armed Forces of Uzbekistan with the correct year: After the September 11, ______ attacks, the United States leased the Karshi-Khanabad airbase in southern Uzbekistan, which…
  92. Complete the sentence about Armed Forces of Uzbekistan with the correct year: In May ______, the military was involved in suppressing unrest in the Ferghana Valley city of Andijan, which became known…
  93. Complete the sentence about National Guard of Uzbekistan with the correct year: The ceremonial company of the Uzbek National Guard guarded the body of the late Uzbek president Islam Karimov after his…
  94. Complete the sentence about 1999 Tashkent bombings with the correct year: The ______ Tashkent bombings occurred on 16 February when six car bombs exploded in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan.
  95. Complete the sentence about 1999 Tashkent bombings with the correct year: In January ______, on the eve of the Muslim holiday of Ramadan, the government announced the execution of several of the alleg…
  96. Complete the sentence about 1999 Tashkent bombings with the correct year: Jaslyk Prison was opened in ______ to hold thousands arrested following the bombings.
  97. Complete the sentence about 2005 Andijan unrest with the correct year: The protesters initially asked for the release of 23 local businessmen who were arrested on 23 June ______ and charged with "extr…
  98. Complete the sentence about Foreign relations of Uzbekistan with the correct year: Uzbekistan joined the Commonwealth of Independent States in December ______.
  99. Complete the sentence about Foreign relations of Uzbekistan with the correct year: In ______, Antti Turunen, head of the Finnish Foreign Ministry's Eastern European and Central Asian department, led a…
  100. Complete the sentence about Shanghai Cooperation Organisation with the correct year: The SCO is the successor to the Shanghai Five, formed in ______ between China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and…

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