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.