A 2003 attempt to amend Article 23 of this region’s law to allow police access to private property led to the downfall of its leader, Tung Chee-hwa.

Possession Street marks Edward Belcher’s landing in this city, and Boundary Street used to form a border for this city.

That march was in protest of Article 23 of this city’s Basic Law.

An ultra-dense “walled city” was demolished in this city in the 1990s.

Police in this city fought with demonstrators at Admiralty, Causeway Bay, and Mong Kok during protests that were centered at the Connaught and Harcourt Road area.

A peaceful protest in this city in 2014 was named for the umbrellas that students used to avoid pepper spray.Name this Special Administrative Region where protestors recently took over an international airport over political disputes with their Communist rulers.

During World War II, this region was held by the "Gin Drinker's Line" and was the site of the St. Stephen's College Massacre of wounded soldiers at a field hospital.

Carrie Lam leads this territory, which is governed under the principle of “one country, two systems.” name this territory that Great Britain returned to China in 1997.

This city was ceded in the Treaty of Nanking to the victors of the First Opium War.

This city was ceded to its former colonial overlords by the Treaty of Tianjin. name this city handed over by Britain to China in 1997.

Following the First Opium War, this city became a British colony under the Treaty of Nanjing. name this southern Chinese city that was returned to China in 1997.

I.M. Pei designed its Bank of China Tower.

In 1997, this city was returned to China after a century of being a British possession. name this Special Administrative Region located across from Shenzhen on the Pearl River.

This metro area, a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China, was transferred to China in 1997 at the end of the 99-year lease the United Kingdom had on the region.

This city’s “New Territories” were leased to the United Kingdom in 1898 for 99 years. name this city near the Pearl River Delta which was returned to China as a Special Administrative Region in 1997.

Region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in the eastern part of the Fertile Crescent in modern Iraq.

Region, whose name is Greek for “land between the rivers,” where Babylon grew.

Assyria and Babylonia were ancient empires in this Middle Eastern region between the Tigris and Euphrates [yoo-FRAY-tees] Rivers. The Epic of Gilgamesh chronicles a hero-king from this region.

The Sumerians and Babylonians flourished in this region with a Greek name. This region in the “fertile crescent” was a center of early agriculture, since the plow was invented here.

Alexander the Great marched into this area, where the Battle of Gaugamela took place. This area, whose name means “land between rivers,” is home to the Tigris and the Euphrates.

Sargon’s Akkadian dynasty ruled most of this region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in modern-day Iraq, which would later be conquered by Assyria.

This “land between the two rivers” in modern Iraq was the center of the Near East Neolithic from around 5500 BC onward due to being irrigable. Its cultures included the Sumerians and Babylonians.

Excavations at Tell Brak in Syria suggest that theories that urbanism spread from the southern part of this region need to be modified. Uruk is traditionally considered the oldest city of this historical region.

Babylon was a leading city-state of this western Asian region, whose name comes from the Greek for "landbetween the rivers."

Another area where early civilization flourished was this "fertile crescent" between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers where the Babylonian and Neo-Babylonian civilizations were located.

Lydia was a kingdom in this region, whose important ancient cities included Miletus and Troy. The region in modern-day Turkey lies south of the Sea of Marmara from Thrace.

Region that Pompey conquered from Mithridates the Great. It was home to the Kingdoms of Pontus and Bithynia on the eastern end of Rome’s territory.

Prior to Alexius’ reign, the Byzantine Empire had lost control of much of this region to the Seljuk Turks due to the Battle of Manzikert. This region was the center of the Ottoman Empire and is most of Turkey’s territory today.

One ruler based in this region apocryphally hid a pigeon in his shirt, swore an oath not to declare war while “this life remained in his chest” and then released the pigeon.

The Ahi Brotherhood semi-independently ruled a city in this region before being annexed by a state whose city of origin was first mentioned in an 8,000 line epic by Ahmedi.

A kingdom in the western part of this region, identified with the Mushki and king Mita, is traditionally thought to have been destroyed by a Cimmerian invasion around 675 BC.

A philosopher from this region compiled maps of the Roman Empire into his massive Geographica. Rebels sparked the ire of Artaphernes, a governor of this region, after besieging his capital of Sardis.

At its formation, most of the land covered by the Theme defensive system was in this region, and it contained a sub-region that gave its name to a dynasty that ended the Twenty Years’ Anarchy and began the policy of Iconoclasm, Isauria.

The generally-rejected Ghaza thesis was used to explain the rise of an empire based in this region, whose conquests included a nine-year siege leading to the capture of Bursa.

Both this region and Armenia began to be conquered by the Seljuk dynasty after a battle in which Alp Arslan defeated Romanos IV, the Battle of Manzikert. name this region, which makes up most of modern-day Turkey.

A kingdom that came to dominate this region assimilated the Hatti people and ruled from their city of Hattusa. name this region in modern-day Turkey home to Phrygia, Lydia, and the Hittites.

The city of Hissarlik in this region was excavated by Heinrich Schliemann during his search for Troy. name this ancient region in present-day Turkey, which is named for being a smaller version of the continent it is located in.

Alp Arslan’s victory at Manzikert paved the way for Turkish settlement in this peninsular region. The modern state of Turkey is primarily located on this peninsula.

This region was home to the culturally diverse state centered on Gordion and a state ruled by the wealthy king Croesus credited with inventing metal coinage.

This region was home to beyliks that emerged after the decline of the Sultanate of Rûm. name this region of origin of the Ottomans, making up the majority of modern Turkey.