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Note to moderator: Read the answerline carefully. This non-American leader’s mausoleum based on Napoleon’s tomb was bulldozed 39 years after his exile to Mauritius (“maw-RISH-us”). This leader, who signed an unratified water-sharing treaty with a Musahiban (“moo-SAH-hib-an”) king, funded French-style schools that replaced maktabs with funds taken from waqfs. This leader’s sugar monopoly financed a cross-country railway through Bakhtiari (“back-tee-YAH-ree”) lands (10[1])that became a wartime supply corridor. This leader’s army besieged the Goharshad (“go-har-SHAD”) Mosque a year before his hero Atatürk inspired him to ban the chādor (“CHUH-dor”). This leader, who subdued (10[1])the Jangalis’ socialist republic in Gīlan (“ghee-LAHN”), was (10[1])appointed (10[1]-5[1])by the Fifth Majlis (“MAHJ-liss”) four years after his Cossack Brigade took the capital. (10[1]-5[1])This neutral (10[1])germanophile abdicated during a 1941 Anglo-Soviet invasion that (10[1])installed (10[1])his partially namesake son. (10[2]-5[2])For 10 points, the Qâjârs (“KAH-jars”) were overthrown (10[1]-5[1])by (-5[1])what first Pahlavi shah? (10[2])■END■ (10[9]0[6])

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