The resettlement policy pursued by the Soviet Union whereby ethnic Russians were encouraged to emigrate to non-Russian republics
What is Russification?
100
The predominant religion of Russia, it split from Roman Catholicism in 1054
What is Eastern Orthodox?
100
The revolutionary Chinese leader that brought Communism to China in 1949
Who is Mao Zedong?
100
The recent earthquake in New Zealand occurred in this, the country's second-largest city
What is Christchurch?
100
Land fit for cultivation by one farming method for another
What is arable land?
200
The year of the Russian Revolution, when the Communists defeated the Czarist monarchy
What is 1917?
200
The religion practiced throughout East Asia that splintered from Hinduism 2,500 years ago and whose hearth is in Nepal and along the Ganges River
What is Buddhism?
200
The last Czar of Russia, he was forced to abdicate his throne during the Russian Revolution
Who is Nicholas II?
200
The indigenous people of New Zealand, they migrated from Polynesia and settled mainly on North Island
Who are the Maori?
200
This population statistic describes the number of people per unit area of arable land
What is physiological (population) density?
300
The number of Soviet Socialist Republics (SSRs) in the Soviet Union?
What is 15?
300
This religion, practiced mainly in Japan, focuses on nature and ancestral worship
What is Shintoism?
300
The Soviet leader whose policies of glasnost (maximum openness) and perestroika (economic restructuring) helped bring an end to the Soviet Union
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
300
The predominant climate of New Zealand
What is the C or humid temperate climate?
300
The politico-geographical concept suggesting that the property of one state lying within the boundaries of another actually forms an extension of the first state
What is extraterritoriality?
400
The approximate number of years the Soviet Union lasted
What is 70?
400
The Chinese religion that preaches a philosophy known as "the way"
What is Taoism?
400
DAILY DOUBLE
Who is Deng Xiaoping?
400
The care, tending, and use of animals such as camels, goats, cattle, llamas, and sheep
What is pastoralism?
400
The political dominance of a state or region by another state
What is hegemony?
500
The term for an economic system that is tightly controlled by a small group of planners who assign production of particular goods to particular places
What is command (or planned) economy?
500
Christians make up a sizable minority (nearly 25 percent) in this East Asian country
What is South Korea?
500
The name of the Chinese dynasty that was forced to accept extraterritorial cities within its borders
What is the Qing (Manchu) Dynasty?
500
This occurs when sandy soil loses its strength due to an applied stress, like from an earthquake
What is liquefaction?
500
A policy of cultural extension and potential political expansion by a state aimed a community of its nationals living in a neighboring state