Asia*

Question 0

When was Buddhism created?

Answer 0

2500 years ago

Question 1

Who is the creator of Buddhism?

Answer 1

No one

Question 2

What did Buddhism branch off of?

Answer 2

Hinduism

Question 3

Known as the Buddha

Answer 3

Siddhartha Gaudama

Question 4

Freedom from the cycle of rebirth and suffering

Answer 4

Nirvana

Question 5

What is the 1st noble truth?

Answer 5

Life always involves suffering

Question 6

What is the second noble truth?

Answer 6

The origin of suffering is our desires

Question 7

What is the third noble truth?

Answer 7

Suffering wills top when desires are stopped

Question 8

How can one get away from suffering and reach nirvana?

Answer 8

The eightfold path

Question 9

Buddhas teaching

Answer 9

Tipitaka

Question 10

Where do Buddhists worship?

Answer 10

Home, temples

Question 11

Spiritual leader of Tibetans and believed to be the reincarnation of Buddhas close follower

Answer 11

Dalai Lama

Question 12

What year was the Dalai Lama forced to flee from the Chinese?

Answer 12

1959

Question 13

A fight between the British and Chinese about trading opium

Answer 13

Opium war

Question 14

Who won the opium war?

Answer 14

British

Question 15

What did the British force china to do after the opium war?

Answer 15

Treaties and took over Hong Kong

Question 16

Western powers moved swiftly to carve out spheres of influence along the Chinese coast

Answer 16

Spheres of influence

Question 17

Who took over China?

Answer 17

Britian, Russia, France, Germany

Question 18

A policy for the Chinese to open trade to everyone on an equal basis

Answer 18

Open door policy

Question 19

Chinese trained in martial arts that tried to kill foreigners

Answer 19

Boxers

Question 20

Believed in a democratic China

Answer 20

Chiang Kai Shek

Question 21

Believed in a communist China

Answer 21

Mao Zedong

Question 22

Mao flees to the Himalayas in 1934

Answer 22

Long march

Question 23

What were some methods that Mao tried to move forward and advance?

Answer 23

Planting, industrialization

Question 24

Who did Mao accuse of conspiring against him and the failure of The Great Leap Forward?

Answer 24

The educated

Question 25

Assumes control of communist party after Mao's death

Answer 25

Deng Xiaoping

Question 26

What did Xiaoping end?

Answer 26

Self reliance and isolation from the rest of the world

Question 27

What did the Chinese government control?

Answer 27

Farms, schools, hospitals, factories

Question 28

Students who protested peacefully and were killed

Answer 28

Tiananmen Massacre

Question 29

Common ethnic and cultural background

Answer 29

Homogenous society

Question 30

Who acknowledged China's powers?

Answer 30

Korea

Question 31

Why did Korea adopt isolationism?

Answer 31

They were afraid of invasions

Question 32

Who ruled over Korea after China couldn't support them?

Answer 32

Japan

Question 33

When did the Korean War start?

Answer 33

1950-53

Question 35

The dividing line of North and South Korea

Answer 35

38th parallel

Question 36

People started to use metal implements

Answer 36

Metallurgy

Question 37

Groups of families in Japan

Answer 37

Clans

Question 38

What were some things that Japan adapted from the Chinese?

Answer 38

Writing, government, art, music, literature, science, philosophy, farming

Question 39

Warrior knights of Japan

Answer 39

Samurai

Question 40

Local lords ruled the land, but were bound to higher lords and emperor by family

Answer 40

Feudalism

Question 41

How long was Japan isolated for?

Answer 41

200 years

Question 42

How did the Japanese end isolationism?

Answer 42

Went to western Europe to learn about government, industry, and militaries. Expanded business.

Question 43

How does the US respond to Japan's actions during WWII?

Answer 43

Blocked supplies and needs, bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Question 44

What does the US do after bombing Japan?

Answer 44

Helps Japan become democratic, builds their economy back up and becomes a modern power

Question 45

What did the Japanese believe while WWII was going on?

Answer 45

Never give up the fight

Question 46

What did Japan try to do during WWII?

Answer 46

Take over Asia

Question 47

Heaven granted a ruler, the mandate, or right to rule

Answer 47

Mandate of Heaven

Question 48

Why is China attacked for their record on human rights?

Answer 48

China restricts rights such as freedom of speech and press

Question 49

Why was the opium war fought?

Answer 49

British refused to stop trading with China

Question 50

What year did China become communist?

Answer 50

1949

Question 51

What was the last dynasty of China? Why did it fall?

Answer 51

Qing dynasty; the west forced them to follow their ways and make more concessions to them

Question 52

What was the attitude of the Japanese government prior to and during WWII?

Answer 52

Japan was militaristic and wanted to take over all of Asia. They invaded china multiple times and also believed to never give up

Question 53

Why did Mao flee to the Himalayas?

Answer 53

Chiang Kai Shek was expelling members of the nationalist party who was communist

Question 54

Taking over small islands and slowly conquering an area of land

Answer 54

Island hopping