Unit 0-3: Intro and Europe
Keeping something intact
preservation
The Hutus and Tutsis were involved in a genocide in what country?
Rwanda
A factor that drives people away from a place
Push Factor
The cities in Japan where the United States dropped the atomic bombs at the end of WWII
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
This country is also considered a continent
Australia
Used to determine directions on a map
Compass Rose
Richest man in world history
Mansa Musa
The social class system in Hinduism where people are born into a certain class and stay there for life
Caste System
Policy in China that restricted the size of families
One Child Policy
The country is home to the Kiwi
New Zealand
the beliefs, behaviors, objects, and other characteristics common to the members of a particular group or society.
Culture
An area where new ideas and innovations spring up and spread to other parts of the world
Cultural Hearth
Densely populated area of substandard housing, usually in a city, characterized by unsanitary conditions and social disorganization
Slums
The name of the gods in Shintoism
Kami
This is the largest living structure in the world
The Great Barrier Reef
European organization that supports free trade, movement, and the Euro.
European Union
The tallest mountain in Africa
Mt Kilimanjaro
The ancient civilization southwest of the Himalayas, whose cities had running water and mysteriously disappeared! (definitely not aliens, yeah...)
Weakness is seen as a strength in what religion / philosophy
Taoism
Name of the desert in China and Mongolia.
Gobi Desert
Growing plants in the desert was part of what revolution?
Green Revolution
Religious structures built by the Mesopotamians.
Ziggurats
Area that India, Pakistan, and China all claim
Kashmir
Area of the world where 90% of the world's earthquakes and volcanos are
Antarctica is bordered entirely by what ocean?
Southern Ocean