Geo Test 1 Flashcards

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Where most people in the eastern Mediterranean subregion live

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Euphrates river valley

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The dominant sects of Islam

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Sunni and Shia

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Artistic depictions of living figure are discouraged

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Islamic art

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Want a independent state of their own

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Palestinians

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All three major religions in the eastern Mediterranean

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Monotheism

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A trade route connecting China to the Mediterranean

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Silk Road

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Took control and imposed extreme interpretations of Islam

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Islamic Taliban

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C, occurring faster than any where else in the world

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Urbanization

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Grew rich from the gold for salt trade

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Mali empire

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Passing down stories from generation to generation

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Oral tradition

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D, coastal areas and river plains

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West Africa population

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B, English and French

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East African languages

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C, first black president of South Africa

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Nelson Mandela

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C, The language of early Dutch settlers in South Africa

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Afrikaans

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B, Northern cultures, Islam. Southern cultures, Christianity.

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Nigeria

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D, voting rights in south Africa for all people

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South Africa

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Wrote the Vedas after the Indus Valley civilization crumbled

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Aryans

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Reincarnation

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Most people are reborn as another living being

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Indias be loved nonviolent political and spiritual leader

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Mohandas Gandhi

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Make up the largest religion group in India

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Hindus

20
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Pakistan has been in conflict with —- over Kashmir

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India

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Was a strategic trade route location

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Sri Lanka

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Mix of people from southern India, Sri Lanka, East Africa

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Maldives

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Environmental changes such as a flooding and drought out may have ended the —–

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Indus Valley civilization

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Religion specific to Japan

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Shintoism

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Concentrated in river valleys

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Chinese population

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Caused by rural to urban

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Farm Labor storages

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Divided into south vs back and Northern communism

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WW2 Korea

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China

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Culture hearth

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Once a Buddhist Kingdom

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Tibet

30
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Food shortage

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Chinese starvation 1950s

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Mostly ethicity

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Homogeneous Japan

32
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Samurai

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Professional warriors

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Economic stagnation, food storage

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North Korean government

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Philippines

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B, US gained control 1898

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East Timor violence

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A, Conflicts between Christians and Muslims

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Indonesian relocation

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A, Relocated to less populated islands

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Vietnam war

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Divided into communists and non-Communist sectors

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Thailand buffer state

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C, Preevent tension between French and British

39
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Srivijaya empire

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D, stablished trade routes

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Mainland external migration

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D, lead to less of skilled warhevs

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Maritime

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Power from the shipping and trade

42
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Spice trade

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Islands of Southeast Asia

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Muslim nation

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Indonesia