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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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Largest city in North Korea
Pyongyang
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Largest city in South Korea
Seoul
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Countries within the ring of fire are susceptible to...
Earthquakes and Volcanoes
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The leader of the communists in China from 1949 until his death in 1976
Mao Zedong
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Where did the Chinese Nationalists migrate to after losing to the Communists
Taiwan
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Name a positive and a negative effect of the Three Gorges Dam
Flood control; displacement of people
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The Great Wall of china was built to keep out which group
Mongol Invaders
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Describe the "one child policy"
Only one child per couple to slow China's population growth
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Why was the Silk Road important
Permitted a significant exchange of culture and goods
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What happened to Japan in 2011
Earthquake, tsunami, nuclear disaster
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What East Asian country had a long history of nomadic life?
Mongolia
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How could this help Japan
Protect from coastal areas from tsunamis
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An economy in which families produce only enough food, shelter, and clothing to satisfy their own needs
Subsistence activities
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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
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Names a set of small, closely grouped islands that sometimes surround a lagoon
Atoll
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Name of an island formed by a volcano
High Island
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Unpopulated inner region of Australia
Outback
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Name of the region of islands in the Pacific Ocean
Oceania
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What is the name of the island made of coral reef
Low island
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Name for a huge chain of islands and reefs lying along Australia's Northeast Coast
Great Barrier Reef
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Large group of islands or island chains
Archipelago
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The type of colony that Great Britain established in Australia
Penal colony
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Early form of government in Southeast Asia, in which states were organized as rings of power around a central court
Mandala
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The original inhabitants of Australia
Aborigines
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A former French colony made up of Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam
IndoChina
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An early government regime that existed in what is now Cambodia
Khmer Rouge Empire
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The result of a minority group giving up its culture and adopting the culture of the majority
Assimilation
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The name of the nixed race children who were taken from aborigine families and placed with white families
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
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
Mabo case
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Legal case in which the court decided that Aborigines could claim land that was held under pastoral lease
Wik case
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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
Terra Nullius
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In 1946, the US government began to test nuclear bombs in the _________ islands
Marshall Islands
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Australia's agricultural and sheep raising endeavors have suffered heatedly due to ____
Over population of rabbits
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Which region of Oceania had a name that means "tiny islands"
Micronesia
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Which region of Oceania has a name that means"black islands"
Melanesia
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Who were the original European Settlers of Australia
Dutch Farmers
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What is the economy of most of Oceania based on?
Service industries
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These winds cause wet and dry seasons in SEAsia and Oceania
Monsoons
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Temperatures in SEAsia and Oceania are consistently _______.
Hot
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SE Asia had one of the greatest diversities of _______ of any region in the world
Wildlife
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The unpopulated inner region of Australia is known as the _____.
Outback
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Because it receives little precipitation, Antarctica is called a ________.
Desert
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Britain founded Sydney, Australia as a _________ _______
Penal colony
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The ________ were the original settlers of New Zealand
Maori
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TRUE OR FALSE: The treaty of Waitangi gave GB the right to claim all gold reserves in Australia
False
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Describe the phrase "free enterprise"
Market controlled by supply and demand
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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
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Cold War idea that communism would spread country to country if not stopped
Domino theory
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Massacres in Cambodia after the Vietnam War by the Khmer Rough Communist
Killing Fields
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Surprise attack in 1968 against US Forces in Vietnam
Tet Offensive
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Communist leader of Vietnam Cong and North Vietnam
HO CHI MINH
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Communist leader of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia
POL POT
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Decision by US Congress to increase US Forces in Vietnam
TONKIN RESOLUTION
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Agreement to divide Vietnam between a North and South
Geneva Accords of 1954
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