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Christians believe that he is the Messiah The name of the Egyptian sun God
Who is Jesus? Who is Re?
100
In 1279 he conquered China and established a capital at Ta-Tu This extends for more than 1,200 miles through the Pacific Ocean?
Who is Kublai Khan? What is the Great Barrier Reef?
100
Groups of Europeans that traveled to Africa to spread Christianity
What is missionaries?
100
A deposit of rich soil at the mouth of a river
What is a delta
100
An Indian epic poem
What is the Mahabharata?
200
The Holy Book of Islam The Sumerians system of writing on soft clay tablets
What is the Qur'an? What is cuneiform?
200
The islands of Japan are part of this geographic area A flat dry plain that covers most of Australia
What is the Ring of Fire? What is the Outback?
200
Because of this process, less and less land in Africa is suitable for farming
What is desertification?
200
A set of Buddhist guidelines for escaping suffering
What is the Eightfold Path
200
One advantage of this is that farmers in South Asia have grown surplus food to set aside in case of a poor growing season
What is the Green Revolution?
300
In Mesopotamia, temples to the gods were built on these towers The earliest monotheistic religion that developed around Jerusalem
What are ziggurats? What is Judaism?
300
In ancient China, the name of the those who ruled for hundreds of years He wrote an important book called Tao-te Ching
What are the Shang and Zhou dynasties? Who is Lao Tzu?
300
High flat land which most of Africa south of the Sahara lies on Ethnic groups and religions in Nigeria have this
What is a plateau? What is diversity?
300
A religion that emphasizes the principles of karma and reincarnation The people who came to South Asia around 1700 B.C. spoke this language
What is Hinduism? What is Sanskrit?
300
Industries that are rapidly growing in India The system that Indian villages are governed by that allows them to collect taxes, maintain hospitals, and build roads
What is information technology? What is the panchayat?
400
The ancient Egyptians made writing material out of this plant A government ruled by a religious leader
What is papyrus? What is a theocracy?
400
Family groups who ruled the kingdoms in ancient Japan Japan's tallest mountain
What are clans? What is Mount Fuji?
400
Plentiful in some parts of Africa, diamonds and gold are what kind of resource As a result of this migration, many of the hunter-gatherers who originally lived in Southern Africa moved away or settled down and became farmers.
What is non-renewable? What is the Bantu migration?
400
Lie mainly in India between the Himalayas and the Deccan Plateau A great empire centuries ago in Cambodia
What is the Northern Plains? Who are the Khmer?
400
Once considered outside the caste system in India they can now vote in elections Pakistan and India have both tried to control this region since 1947
What is Dalits (Untouchables)? What is Kashmir?
500
The area that is today Iraq, plus northeast Syria and part of Turkey is sometimes known as this In ancient Egypt who the pyramids were built for as a burial place
What is the Fertile Crescent? Who are Pharaohs?
500
In 1603, Tokugawa Ieyasu became this in Japan Who Confucianism provide the principles of government to during the reign of Han emperor Wudi
What is shogun? Who is the Chinese Bureaucracy?
500
As East Africa gradually pulls away from the rest of the continent, this will get bigger The name of the group in Rwanda that the Belgian rulers favored resulting in a violent civil war there in 1994
What is the Great Rift Valley Who were the Tutsi?
500
He gained religious enlightment through meditation ariund 500 B.C. in India Ruled over India's "Golden Age" in science, art, and literature
Who is Siddhartha Gautama (Buddah)? What is the Gupta Dynasty?
500
He led a 240 mile walk to the ocean to protest the British tax on salt Formed in 1906 to discuss issues of concern
Who is Mohandas Gandhi? What is the Muslim League?
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