Wc

Question 1

How big is Africa? Approx sq miles?

Answer 1

11.7 million square miles

Question 2

How many countries are in Africa

Answer 2

54

Question 3

World’s largest hot desert?

Answer 3

sahara

Question 4

longhest river

Answer 4

nile

Question 5

highest mt

Answer 5

mt Kilimanjaro

Question 6

African Union created year

Answer 6

July 2002

Question 7

Where is the headquarters of the African Union?

Answer 7

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Question 8

What is the name of the city in Africa with the largest population?

Answer 8

Legos

Question 9

Why is the Suez Canal so important to world trade?

Answer 9

It exports 30% of world trade

Question 9

What are some of Africa’s natural resources?

Answer 9

Oil, diamonds, gold

Question 10

Why does the African Continent have a high infant mortality rate?

Answer 10

Because lack of healthcare and diseases

Question 11

Gupta Empire
What was its effect on South Asia’s culture?

Answer 11

South Asia was divided into several kingdoms

Question 12

Delhi Sultanate
What region did it control?

Answer 12

Pakistan and Northern India

Question 13

What cultural exchange occurred between Hindus and Muslims?

Answer 13

Many people moved to Delhi which helped change art architecture learning

Question 14

Babur
Who was this person?

Answer 14

A Muslim from central Asia who overthrew the Delhi Sultanate and founded a powerful Mughal empire

Question 15

Sikhs
What beliefs do they have?

Answer 15

That all people are equal and there is one god

Question 16

What is their important scripture?

Answer 16

t contains teachings of the Sikhs gurus and spiritual leaders from their faith

Question 17

East India Company
What was this company?

Answer 17

A trading agent in South America

Question 18

How did it exert its influence?

Answer 18

It pushed most of its European rivals out of the subcontinent

Question 19

When did the British government take over its territories?

Answer 19

1858

Question 20

Partition
What was “partition” and when did it occur?

Answer 20

Britain decided to split India into two states India and Pakistan

Question 21

What happened as a result of partition?

Answer 21

People migrated to India and Pakistan people who were Hindus and Sikhs moved to India and Indian Muslims moved to Pakistan causing millions to lose all their belongings and families many died on the journey and starvation and violence erupted

Question 22

Nonalignment
What was this policy?

Answer 22

Was to not ally with the United States or the soviet union during the Cold War

Question 23

Who came up with this policy?

Answer 23

Jawaharlal Nehru

Question 24

Mohandas K. Gandhi
Who was this person?

Answer 24

A social activist who organized peaceful protests against unjust laws and the British rule over India

Question 25

What did he do in India for independence?

Answer 25

He organized protests against the brush rule

Question 26

Civil disobedience
What is it?
What is an example

Answer 26

A nonviolent action is a protest against a law
Martin Luther King jr boycotts

Question 27

Jawaharlal Nehru
Who was this person?

Answer 27

Prime minister of India in the 1960s his goal was to modernize India

Question 28

Muslim League
What was this organization?

Answer 28

Supported the idea of 2 separate states one primarily Hindu and the other Muslim

Question 29

Mohammed Ali Jinnah
Who was this person?

Answer 29

Founder and the first governor of Pakistan 1947-1948