2nd Semester Final SG - Complete

Which of the following items were things that were transported along the silk road?

(precious gems, silk, Islam and other religions)

Where did the Silk Road begin and end?

Began in Xian, China and ended in Damascus, Syria,

What is industrialization?

The process of building factories and modernizing a country

The main religions that Japanese people follow are Shinto and

Buddhism

What is the capital of Japan?

Tokyo

Who were the group of people in Japan responsible for fighting wars and protecting the people?

Samurai

Who helped Japan rebuild after World War II?

The United States

What is the name of one of the two major rivers in China?

Huang He

The oldest continuous civilization in the world is

China

Communist leader who brought about great changes

Mao Zedong

How is Chinese history organized?

Chinese history is organized into dynasties

China is becoming one of the world's largest

economies

Along which river in China would be cultural hearth of Chinese civilization?

The Huang He

What is the Mandate of Heaven?

The belief that ancestors and heaven gave Emperors the right to rule China

Which of the following major world religions began in South Asia but does not have many followers in that region today?

Buddhism

were the original inhabitants of Austalia before the Europeans arrived

(Aborigines)

What is a monotreme?

egg-laying mammal

What is the most popular professional sport in Australia?

Australian Rules Football

mammals that carry their young in a pouch that only live in Australia

marsupials

Islands that have good soil and mountain ranges

high islands

The original settlers of New Zealand are the

Maori

The Great Barrier reef is a huge______of the coast of Australia

coral reef

What is the name of the dry region in Central Australia?

Outback

What three mountain ranges forms a natural barrier between Southern Asia and Eastern Asia?

Himalayas, Hindu Kush, Karakorum

What is the largest country in Southern Asia?

India

What is one thing that most affects the economy and of the lives of the people in South Asia?

monsoons

Around which river was the cultural hearth of India?

IndusRiver

India was a part of what country's empire from 1757-1947?

Great Britain

Who protested British rule and preached the use of nonviolence?

Mohandas Gandhi

Who was Siddartha Guatama?

The founder of

Why is Hinduism unlike any other major world religion?

it has no single founder

______separated ethnic groups and limited the rights of black South Africans. A: apartheid

______made Timbuktu a center of trade, education, and Islamic culture. A: Mansa Musa

When ______was elected president of South Africa in 1994, the system of legalized racial discrimination ends. A: Nelson Mandela

The deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group is ______. A: genocide

Two of the countries were genocide has taken place in Africa since World War II are? A: Sudan and Rwanda

One lasting problem because of the European colonization of Africa was that ?

A: conflicts occured in the new countries created by the Europeans

One of the major trade routes in Africa was the began because of the trade of ____ for ______. A: gold for salt.