EAST ASIA
This mountain range separates China from South Asia and limits settlement.
What are the Himalayas?
This physical landmark was started by the Qin Dynasty and completed by other dynasties that followed.
What is the Great Wall of China?
The main purpose of the Silk Road was this.
What is trade and cultural exchange?
This major resource connects the Middle East to the global economy.
What is oil?
Physical geography refers to this.
What are natural features like mountains, rivers, and climate?
These two physical features limit settlement in parts of East Asia.
What are mountains and deserts?
These natural features helped protect and isolate China historically.
What are mountains, deserts, and oceans?
Besides goods, these also spread along the Silk Road.
What are ideas, religions, and technology?
This canal shortens travel between Europe and Asia.
What is the Suez canal?
This factor most influences where people settle.
What is access to water?
Most people in East Asia live in these areas because they provide fertile land and trade access.
What are coastal plains and river valleys?
This ancient Chinese belief system focuses on the importance of personal ethics and morality.
What is Confucianism?
Geography influenced the Silk Road because traders had to avoid these.
What are mountains and deserts?
This narrow waterway controls a large portion of global oil shipping.
What is the Strait of Hormuz?
Trade chokepoints affect this global factor.
What are shipping costs and fuel prices?
Seasonal winds that affect agriculture and rainfall in East Asia.
What are monsoons?
These 2 water geographic features supported the development of early Chinese civilization.
What are the Yangtze River and the Yellow River?
This were valuable things exchanged along the Silk Road.
What are silk, spices, jade, language, religion?
These two rivers supported early civilizations in the Middle East.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
Deserts in the Middle East limit this.
What is population settlement and agriculture?
This desert stretches across northern China and Mongolia.
What is the Gobi Desert?
China became a major world economic power through this process.
What is industrialization and global trade?
The Silk Road is an early example of this global process.
What is Cultural diffusion?
The Middle East is strategically important because it sits at the crossroads of these three continents.
What are Europe, Asia, and Africa?
Ancient trade routes like the Silk Road influenced modern global _______.
What is trade/economics?