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Himalaya Mountains

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Part of a barrier that separates the doubt Asian subcontinent from the rest of Asia

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Which of there is a violent storm with high dangerous winds and rain?

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Cyclone

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A group of islands

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Archipelago

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Means “separation” and refers to the division of India into two countries, India and East and West Pakistan

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Partition

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What was the organization British used to control the economy of India

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British East India Company

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What’s the primary method used by Gandhi and his supporters to end British rule in India

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Nonviolent resistance

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About 75% Sri Lanka’s population is made of the Buddhist group known as….

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Sinhalese

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What makes Afghanistan, Nepal, and Bhutan different from other South Asian Countries?

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Landlocked

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Which cultural practice still influences mordant Indian society despite being outlawed in 1947

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Caste system

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What are 4 characteristics of Buddhism

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Reincarnation, Eightfold path, Siddhartha Gautama, Four Noble Truths

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Why is the region of Kashmir a source of conflict among nations of South Asia

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Kashmir- majority muslin, controlled by India

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Name 3 effects of environment consequences of India’s rapid population growth

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Air pollution

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How have the long practiced Hindu rituals in and along the Ganges affected the river?

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The Ganges has become one of the most polluted rivers in the world

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What is Hindus idea of cause and effect, that your actions of one life are revisited in later lives

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Karma

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Hinduism is a__________ theistic religion

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Poly

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What’s the tallest mountain in the world

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Mount Everest

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The growth of cities due to mass movements of people from the countryside to cities is known as

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Urbanization

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Name the film industry in India

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Bollywood

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What country was once East Pakistan? When did it become its own country?

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Bangladesh, 1971

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A belief system that teaches that the individual should ignore the social order and seek harmony with nature

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Taoism

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________ refers the the uprising by the Chinese against the control of European nations such as Britain, France, Germany, and Russia

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Boxer Rebellion

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What’s a series of rulers from the same family

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Dynasty

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____________ refers to a nation that had a highly industrialized economy and trades with nation around the world

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Economic Tiger

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Name the nation considered to be an economic tiger

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Taiwan

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25
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Largest city in North Korea

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Pyongyang

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Largest city in South Korea

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Seoul

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Countries within the ring of fire are susceptible to…

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Earthquakes and Volcanoes

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The leader of the communists in China from 1949 until his death in 1976

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Mao Zedong

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Where did the Chinese Nationalists migrate to after losing to the Communists

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Taiwan

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Name a positive and a negative effect of the Three Gorges Dam

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Flood control; displacement of people

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The Great Wall of china was built to keep out which group

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Mongol Invaders

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Describe the “one child policy”

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Only one child per couple to slow China’s population growth

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Why was the Silk Road important

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Permitted a significant exchange of culture and goods

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What happened to Japan in 2011

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Earthquake, tsunami, nuclear disaster

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What East Asian country had a long history of nomadic life?

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Mongolia

36
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How could this help Japan

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Protect from coastal areas from tsunamis

37
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An economy in which families produce only enough food, shelter, and clothing to satisfy their own needs

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Subsistence activities

38
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Why is there a potential for conflict over the spratly and Paracel islands

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The islands are not well marked on charts and nobody knows who owns them

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Names a set of small, closely grouped islands that sometimes surround a lagoon

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Atoll

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Name of an island formed by a volcano

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High Island

41
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Unpopulated inner region of Australia

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Outback

42
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Name of the region of islands in the Pacific Ocean

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Oceania

43
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What is the name of the island made of coral reef

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Low island

44
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Name for a huge chain of islands and reefs lying along Australia’s Northeast Coast

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Great Barrier Reef

45
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Large group of islands or island chains

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Archipelago

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The type of colony that Great Britain established in Australia

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Penal colony

47
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Early form of government in Southeast Asia, in which states were organized as rings of power around a central court

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Mandala

48
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The original inhabitants of Australia

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Aborigines

49
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A former French colony made up of Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam

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IndoChina

50
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An early government regime that existed in what is now Cambodia

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Khmer Rouge Empire

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The result of a minority group giving up its culture and adopting the culture of the majority

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Assimilation

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The name of the nixed race children who were taken from aborigine families and placed with white families

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Stolen Generation

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A legal case in which the court recognized the Aborigines as the original owner of land in Australia before the British arrived

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Land rights act of 1976

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A law that gave aborigines the right to claim land in the Northern Territory of Australia

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Mabo case

55
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Legal case in which the court decided that Aborigines could claim land that was held under pastoral lease

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Wik case

56
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“Empy Land” concept. British gov’t decided that this game them the right to make land in Australia without treaties with the Aborigines

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Terra Nullius

57
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In 1946, the US government began to test nuclear bombs in the _________ islands

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Marshall Islands

58
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Australia’s agricultural and sheep raising endeavors have suffered heatedly due to ____

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Over population of rabbits

59
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Which region of Oceania had a name that means “tiny islands”

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Micronesia

60
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Which region of Oceania has a name that means”black islands”

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Melanesia

61
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Who were the original European Settlers of Australia

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Dutch Farmers

62
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What is the economy of most of Oceania based on?

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Service industries

63
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These winds cause wet and dry seasons in SEAsia and Oceania

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Monsoons

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Temperatures in SEAsia and Oceania are consistently _______.

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Hot

65
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SE Asia had one of the greatest diversities of _______ of any region in the world

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Wildlife

66
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The unpopulated inner region of Australia is known as the _____.

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Outback

67
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Because it receives little precipitation, Antarctica is called a ________.

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Desert

68
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Britain founded Sydney, Australia as a _________ _______

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Penal colony

69
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The ________ were the original settlers of New Zealand

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Maori

70
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TRUE OR FALSE: The treaty of Waitangi gave GB the right to claim all gold reserves in Australia

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False

71
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Describe the phrase “free enterprise”

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Market controlled by supply and demand

72
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Why is there a potential for conflict over the spratly and Paracel islands

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The islands are not well marked on Charts, and nobody knows who owns them

73
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Cold War idea that communism would spread country to country if not stopped

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Domino theory

74
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Massacres in Cambodia after the Vietnam War by the Khmer Rough Communist

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Killing Fields

75
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Surprise attack in 1968 against US Forces in Vietnam

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Tet Offensive

76
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Communist leader of Vietnam Cong and North Vietnam

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HO CHI MINH

77
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Communist leader of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia

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POL POT

78
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Decision by US Congress to increase US Forces in Vietnam

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TONKIN RESOLUTION

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Agreement to divide Vietnam between a North and South

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Geneva Accords of 1954

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