China
What is the major holiday in China for which millions of people travel to their family home?
Chinese New Year
What utensil used in the typical Japanese tea ceremony do families often pass down through generations?
the teapot
What policy did the Communist government institute to slow population growth?
The One Child policy
What is the largest single ethnic and language group in the Philippines?
Tagalog
What worldview emphasizes two opposite and complementary forces or principles, such as light and darkness, male and female, passive and active?
yin and yang
What ethnic group makes up over 90% of China's population?
Han
All tea comes from how many species of tea plant?
One
Of what religion are most Uyghurs followers?
Islam
What is the name of the Pacific rim where the majority of earthquakes and volcanos occur?
the Ring of Fire
In Hindu thought, the pursuit of worthy goals cannot be accomplished in one lifetime, which leads to belief in what?
reincarnation
The two opposing parties tha vied for power in China in the early 1900's were the Kuomintang or Nationalists and the _________________________.
Communist Party
How has China changed the geography of the South China Sea?
China has built up tiny islands to build military outposts on them.
China has put just over one million Uyghurs into what?
Re-Education Camps
Vietnam is located on what peninsula?
Indochina
In Hindu thought, separation is an illusion and there is ___________ of everything.
oneness
Who were the long-term leaders of the two political parties in China that began in the early 1900's?
A. Ho Chi Minh & Mao Zedong
B. Mao Zedong & Chiang Kai-shek
B
What is the standard modern territorial limit that a countries can claim in the South China Sea?
12 miles
What is the most important geographic feature of the Korean peninsula?
the 38th parallel
The idea that, if Vietnam fell to the COmmunists, other countries in Indochina and Southeast Asia might also fall, is called the ______________________.
domino theory
What belief system was founded by Siddharta Gautama (S.G.)?
Buddism
After one of the opposing political parties won the civil war in China that occurred after WW2, what did the supporters of the other party do?
Withdrew to Taiwan
Why is Vietnam more than just a place and why does it have an emotional impact for many Americans?
Because the US fought a costly and divisive war there.
What is the difference in the forms of government of North Korea and South Korea?
South Korea is a democracy; North Korea is a Communist dictatorship
Indonesia has the largest followers of what religion of any country in the world?
Muslims
What belief system holds that man is evolving to a new stage of existence and thought?
New Age