Geography
This river was the backbone of ancient Egypt and Kush, providing water, fertile soil from its annual floods, and a route for transportation and trade.
What is the Nile River?
This is East Asia’s most important economic sector.
What is manufacturing?
The 2011 movement for more democracy in the Arab world.
What is the Arab Spring?
This process contributes to climate change, biodiversity loss, and land degradation in Africa.
What is deforestation?
Farmers in the Philippines dig these into hillsides to create flat spaces for planting.
What are terraces?
This authoritarian Communist state has a command economy with low output and a low living standard.
What is North Korea?
The Confucian belief in the devotion of children to their parents.
What is filial piety?
With less land mass per country, this problem causes fewer job opportunities, poverty, and water shortages in East Asia.
What is overpopulation?
The fertile valley created by the annual flooding of the Nile was surrounded by this type of biome on either side.
What is a desert?
This highly productive East Asian country has a mixed market and a presidential democracy.
What is South Korea?
This philosophy looks for balance in nature, keeping lives simple and avoiding too many rules, laws, or possessions.
What is Daoism?
This policy by which one country seeks to rule other areas, created problems for Africa.
What is Colonialism?
This Southeast Asian country is located both on the mainland and on part of an island.
What is Malaysia?
A problem created by factories and other activities that drive China’s economy that damages the air, water, and ground.
What is pollution?
This book contains the beliefs of Daoism.
What is the Dao De Jing?
The former South African policy of keeping white and black South Africans apart.
What is apartheid?
Indonesia has around 12,000 uninhabited islands, and the majority of its population crowds onto this island.
What is Java?
This authoritarian Communist state has a mixed economy with a strong command component.
What is China?
The political and social movement to strengthen bonds between people of African descent.
What is Pan-Africanism?
Because of record pollution in China, they are using this water based power that allows them to burn less fossil fuel.
What is hydroelectric power?