Core Concepts
The Middle East
Korea
Japan
Science
100

The number of people per unit of land area.

What is population density?

100

Trade routes that crossed Asia.

What is the Silk Road? 

100

This Korean kingdom pushed the Chinese off the Korean peninsula.

What is the Silla Kingdom? 

100

The economic system that underlies shoguns, samurai, peasants and merchants.

What is feudalism? 

100

This is the brain of the cell.

What is the nucleus? 

200

The spreading of people over an area of land.

What is population distribution? 

200

Groups of people traveling together.

What are caravans? 

200

The written language of Korea.

What is Hangul? 

200

Japanese warrior lords.

What are samurai? 

200

This is the powerhouse of the cell.

What is the mitochondria? 

300

Poor, urban neighborhoods.

What are slums?

300

This Mongol leader has millions of direct descendants. 

Who is Genghis Khan? 

300

These Chinese religions made their way to Korea via the Silk Road and trade.

What are Confucianism and Buddhism? 

300

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This Japanese leader reunited Japan.

Who is Tokugawa Ieyasu? 

300

This is the part of the cell responsible for protein synthesis.

What is the ribosome? 

400

The movement of people from country areas to city areas.

What is urbanization? 

400

Islamic schools.

What are madrassas? 

400

A slab of land surrounded on three sides by water.

What is a peninsula? 

400

This American commander forced the Japanese to sign a treaty under threat of force.

Who is Matthew C Perry? 

400

This is the part of the plant cell that is responsible for photosynthesis.

What is the chloroplast? 

500

The spread of suburbs away from the core city.

What is suburban sprawl? 

500

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Like the leader of the Mongols, this Macedonian conqueror was much more concerned with building an empire than maintaining one. 

Who is Alexander the Great?

500

These Korean products were highly desirable and were routinely traded to the Chinese and others.

What are movable metal type and porcelain? 

500

This period marks the return to power of Emperor Meiji.

What is the Meiji Restoration? 

500

This hard, outer covering of plant cells is not a feature of animal cells. 

What is the cell wall? 

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