Mega Review Flashcards
Himalaya Mountains
Part of a barrier that separates the doubt Asian subcontinent from the rest of Asia
Which of there is a violent storm with high dangerous winds and rain?
Cyclone
A group of islands
Archipelago
Means “separation” and refers to the division of India into two countries, India and East and West Pakistan
Partition
What was the organization British used to control the economy of India
British East India Company
What’s the primary method used by Gandhi and his supporters to end British rule in India
Nonviolent resistance
About 75% Sri Lanka’s population is made of the Buddhist group known as….
Sinhalese
What makes Afghanistan, Nepal, and Bhutan different from other South Asian Countries?
Landlocked
Which cultural practice still influences mordant Indian society despite being outlawed in 1947
Caste system
What are 4 characteristics of Buddhism
Reincarnation, Eightfold path, Siddhartha Gautama, Four Noble Truths
Why is the region of Kashmir a source of conflict among nations of South Asia
Kashmir- majority muslin, controlled by India
Name 3 effects of environment consequences of India’s rapid population growth
Air pollution
How have the long practiced Hindu rituals in and along the Ganges affected the river?
The Ganges has become one of the most polluted rivers in the world
What is Hindus idea of cause and effect, that your actions of one life are revisited in later lives
Karma
Hinduism is a__________ theistic religion
Poly
What’s the tallest mountain in the world
Mount Everest
The growth of cities due to mass movements of people from the countryside to cities is known as
Urbanization
Name the film industry in India
Bollywood
What country was once East Pakistan? When did it become its own country?
Bangladesh, 1971
A belief system that teaches that the individual should ignore the social order and seek harmony with nature
Taoism
________ refers the the uprising by the Chinese against the control of European nations such as Britain, France, Germany, and Russia
Boxer Rebellion
What’s a series of rulers from the same family
Dynasty
____________ refers to a nation that had a highly industrialized economy and trades with nation around the world
Economic Tiger
Name the nation considered to be an economic tiger
Taiwan
Largest city in North Korea
Pyongyang
Largest city in South Korea
Seoul
Countries within the ring of fire are susceptible to…
Earthquakes and Volcanoes
The leader of the communists in China from 1949 until his death in 1976
Mao Zedong
Where did the Chinese Nationalists migrate to after losing to the Communists
Taiwan
Name a positive and a negative effect of the Three Gorges Dam
Flood control; displacement of people
The Great Wall of china was built to keep out which group
Mongol Invaders
Describe the “one child policy”
Only one child per couple to slow China’s population growth
Why was the Silk Road important
Permitted a significant exchange of culture and goods
What happened to Japan in 2011
Earthquake, tsunami, nuclear disaster
What East Asian country had a long history of nomadic life?
Mongolia
How could this help Japan
Protect from coastal areas from tsunamis
An economy in which families produce only enough food, shelter, and clothing to satisfy their own needs
Subsistence activities
Why is there a potential for conflict over the spratly and Paracel islands
The islands are not well marked on charts and nobody knows who owns them
Names a set of small, closely grouped islands that sometimes surround a lagoon
Atoll
Name of an island formed by a volcano
High Island
Unpopulated inner region of Australia
Outback
Name of the region of islands in the Pacific Ocean
Oceania
What is the name of the island made of coral reef
Low island
Name for a huge chain of islands and reefs lying along Australia’s Northeast Coast
Great Barrier Reef
Large group of islands or island chains
Archipelago
The type of colony that Great Britain established in Australia
Penal colony
Early form of government in Southeast Asia, in which states were organized as rings of power around a central court
Mandala
The original inhabitants of Australia
Aborigines
A former French colony made up of Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam
IndoChina
An early government regime that existed in what is now Cambodia
Khmer Rouge Empire
The result of a minority group giving up its culture and adopting the culture of the majority
Assimilation
The name of the nixed race children who were taken from aborigine families and placed with white families
Stolen Generation
A legal case in which the court recognized the Aborigines as the original owner of land in Australia before the British arrived
Land rights act of 1976
A law that gave aborigines the right to claim land in the Northern Territory of Australia
Mabo case
Legal case in which the court decided that Aborigines could claim land that was held under pastoral lease
Wik case
“Empy Land” concept. British gov’t decided that this game them the right to make land in Australia without treaties with the Aborigines
Terra Nullius
In 1946, the US government began to test nuclear bombs in the _________ islands
Marshall Islands
Australia’s agricultural and sheep raising endeavors have suffered heatedly due to ____
Over population of rabbits
Which region of Oceania had a name that means “tiny islands”
Micronesia
Which region of Oceania has a name that means”black islands”
Melanesia
Who were the original European Settlers of Australia
Dutch Farmers
What is the economy of most of Oceania based on?
Service industries
These winds cause wet and dry seasons in SEAsia and Oceania
Monsoons
Temperatures in SEAsia and Oceania are consistently _______.
Hot
SE Asia had one of the greatest diversities of _______ of any region in the world
Wildlife
The unpopulated inner region of Australia is known as the _____.
Outback
Because it receives little precipitation, Antarctica is called a ________.
Desert
Britain founded Sydney, Australia as a _________ _______
Penal colony
The ________ were the original settlers of New Zealand
Maori
TRUE OR FALSE: The treaty of Waitangi gave GB the right to claim all gold reserves in Australia
False
Describe the phrase “free enterprise”
Market controlled by supply and demand
Why is there a potential for conflict over the spratly and Paracel islands
The islands are not well marked on Charts, and nobody knows who owns them
Cold War idea that communism would spread country to country if not stopped
Domino theory
Massacres in Cambodia after the Vietnam War by the Khmer Rough Communist
Killing Fields
Surprise attack in 1968 against US Forces in Vietnam
Tet Offensive
Communist leader of Vietnam Cong and North Vietnam
HO CHI MINH
Communist leader of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia
POL POT
Decision by US Congress to increase US Forces in Vietnam
TONKIN RESOLUTION
Agreement to divide Vietnam between a North and South
Geneva Accords of 1954
