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Asia Test Flashcards

1
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Who claim is Jerusalem as a holy city

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Christian, Islam(Muslims), Jewish

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What are the three types of government found in the Middle East

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Theocracy, republic, monarchy

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What religion has the most followers in India

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Hinduism

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What is Zionism

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1900s beleif that Jewish followers should have a homeland and it should be Israel

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Who are the Kurds

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Culturally identifiable people who have no political voice, a perfect example of a stateless nation, they travel through Syria, turkey, Iraq, and Iran

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What happened during the Arab/Israel conflict

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It was first and Arab nation with Muslims, after World War I under the British mandate it became the state of Palestine. Then after World War II and the Holocaust, the UN gave it to the Jewish people as a homeland called Israel. Then in 2012 the UN divided Israel with the West Bank and Gaza Strip being the state of Palestine territory

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What is the religion of Confucianism

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Also known as Ruism, Confucianism is a philosophical and ethical-sociopolitical way of life

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Why do American companies go to India for workers

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Cheap labor

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Why is China overpopulated with all its land, but Japan isn’t when they have the highest population density in the world

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China lacks food, water, and jobs for the people while Japan can support their population

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What is the cause of terrorism in the Middle East

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So many diverse cultures and religions in a relatively small area

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what is the Arab spring and where did it start

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People demanding for voice in government through democratic elections it started in Tunisia

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What is the purpose of OPEC

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To control the market with fair prices that keep them in business but manage supply of underground oil so we don’t run out

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India is the largest…

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Democracy in the world

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What territory is Pakistan and India fighting over today

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Kashmir

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Why do Indian families have lots of children

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Children are a source of income to help the family, they also provide security in old age to parents, and the infant mortality rate is very high

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Why is the river Ganges special to Hindus

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The Ganges River brings life to its people in is named after the goddess Ganga

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Outsourcing

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Obtain a good or service from an outside supplier, especially in place of an international source

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Information technology

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The study Or use of systems (especially computers in telecommunications) for storing, retrieving, and sending information

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Stateless nation

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Culturally linked group of people that have no political voice

20
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Terrorism

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The use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims

21
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Refugee

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Comes into the country with government concent

22
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OPEC

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An organization of petroleum exporting countries, that helps members control worldwide oil prices by adjusting oil prices and production quotas

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Population density

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Number of people per square mile

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Dictatorship

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Power by force

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Desalinization

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The removal of salt from seawater to make it usable for drinking and farming

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Monotheism

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The belief in one God

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Islam

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Five pillars of faith, life after death

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Christianity

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Jesus is the son of God, Jesus is the messiah, Jesus died to forgive all sins

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Buddhism

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Reach enlightenment, seek nirvana, meditation, polytheistic

30
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Siddhartha Gautama

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The founder of Buddhism

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West Bank and Gaza strip

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Belongs to the Arab/Palestinians

32
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Balfour declaration

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The World War II solution that the Israelis and Palestinians got their own land
And it provided the right of the existing non-Jewish communities in Palastine could be safeguarded

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Arab Spring

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Series of antigovernment protests, uprisings and armed rebellion’s that spread across the middle east in early 2011

34
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One child policy

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China’s one Child policy limits one child per couple to reduce the population

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Mao Zedong

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Former chairman of the Communist Party of China/lead China’s communist revolution

36
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How do you countries in the Middle East deal with low amounts of freshwater

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They have the desalinized their water/they import their water/they have learned to conserve

37
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How does the numerous conflicts in this area become a global issue

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These conflicts involve countries with access or control of nuclear weapons, natural resources like oil, or have pollution problems it will get the global community involved with the disagreement

38
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What are the consequences for unresolved conflict

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They continue to struggle politically, economically, and socially compared to the rest of the world, and the citizens pay the ultimate price of an unstable government

39
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What makes a country overpopulated

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When they have high statistics like birthrate or fertility rate or population density, but also if they have more people than resources

40
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How do you governments react differently to these population issues

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China tried using legislative power with the one child policy but it didn’t work, Japan has taken no action in their population continues to decrease, and America has paid for early education through the public school system

41
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What is the issue between the Israelis and Palestinians

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They have fought for over 100 years and the relationship goons of Islam and Christianity have been fighting even longer

42
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What common characteristics join the people of the Middle East together as a cultural region

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Culturally they have similar dress (because of religion and geographic location) and food but they also share common heritage and language

43
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How was oil used as a weapon in the middle eastern the 1970s

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Russia got involved and push for the middle east to be communist and we wanted to stop the spread of communism/we discover the Middle East has a lot of oil and get heavily interested/Oil is always the center conflicts during the Cold War/it’s been the resource we’ve been after since the 60s and 70s

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