Religions
Africa
Middle East
Asia
Global Themes
100
Judaism, Islam, or Christianity
What is one of the three major monotheistic religions?
100
Large geographical feature that separates North Africa from Central and Southern Africa.
What is the Sahara Desert.
100
One of the holiest cities for Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
What is Jerusalem?
100
Qin dynasty structure that "fenced off" China from the "Barbarians."
What is the Great Wall.
100
Removal of all trees and shrubs in an area.
What is deforestation?
200
The major polytheistic religion on Earth right now.
What is Hinduism?
200
How 3/4s of Africa's people make their living.
What is subsistence agriculture?
200
The group headed by Osama bin-Laden, supposedly operating out of Afghanistan.
What is al-Qaeda?
200
The European invention that brought an end to the Samurai era in Japan.
What is the gun?
200
A total distrust of strangers or others not like you.
What is xenophobia?
300
A corpse, a monk, a sick person and a poor person.
What are the four things Siddhartha had to see to begin his spiritual journey.
300
The biggest health problem in Africa for the 21st century.
What is HIV/AIDS?
300
Body of water that is shrinking and becoming more and more salty.
What is the Dead Sea?
300
Leader of the unstable communist nation of North Korea.
Who is Kim Jong-il?
300
An example would be reclaiming land from the North Sea by building dams and pumping out the water.
What is human/environmental interaction?
400
Theravada Buddhism.
What branch of Buddhism maintains Buddha was only human; a teacher.
400
The first black president of South Africa.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
400
four quarters of old Jerusalem.
What are the Armenian Quarter, the Jewish Quarter, the Muslim Quarter and the Christian Quarter?
400
Mahatma Gandhi made this feature of Indian society illegal in the late 1940s.
What is the caste system?
400
The concept of Japanese fashion trends spreading around the planet.
What is the geographical theme of movement?
500
the 5 Pillars of Islam.
What is belief in one God only, giving to the poor, fasting during Ramadan, praying 5 times a day and making the Hajj to Mecca!
500
The white Europeans who became the ruling party in South Africa until the early 1990s.
Who are the Afrikaners or the Boers?
500
The violent region that separates Israel from the Palestine Authority near the border with Jordan.
What is the West Bank?
500
This ended in a stalemate after three years of fighting from 1950 to roughly 1952-53.
What is the Korean War.
500
The longitude lines that measure from east to west are known as this.
What are meridians?
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