East Asia
What is de facto country in East Asia ?
Taiwan
What are the two island countries of South Asia?
Sri Lanka and Maldives
North African countries are located on the southern shore of the _____.
Mediterranean Sea
Located on the border between Kenya and Tanzania, the tallest mountain in Africa is _____.
Mount Kilimanjaro
What is the term for this definition, “Group outside India’s social system; Also called the “untouchables.”
Dalit
What is a popular type of music in East Asia.
K-Pop
What is the main industry in South Asian cities?
High-tech
What resource is found in limited amounts in North Africa?
water
What geological feature dominates the physical geography of East Africa?
the Great Rift Valley
Are arranged marriages banned in South Asia?
False
What East Asian country has the largest deposits of fossil fuels?
China
How were the Himalayas formed?
Plate tectonics
Tunisia's main resources are iron ore and _____.
Phosphates
What is the border area between the Sahara and the countries farther to the south called?
the Sahel
One nickname for ancient Egypt was the _____.
Why do trees not grow in western and northwestern China?
Those areas are too dry.
What are the Four Noble Truths?
Central to Buddhist beliefs
What is the largest city in North Africa?
Cairo
What is the largest lake in Djibouti?
Lake Assal
After the decline of Aksum, _____ settled on the East African coast of the Indian Ocean.
Arabs
What program to rid China of anticommunism among intellectuals.
Cultural Revolution
In what language were the Vedas, ancient Aryan poetic texts, written?
Sanskrit
Which North African country was the first to achieve independence from European rule?
Egypt
The Aksum kings adopted _____ as their religion.
Christianity
In Kenya, _____ is the main industrial center of the country.
Nairobi