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What is the country in the ancient world known for its cedar trees?
Lebanon
What is the largest Middle Eastern country?
Saudi Arabia
What is the country that is known for its caste system?
India
The country that is known as the "Kingdom of the Thunder Dragon"
Bhutan
What is the country that used cowrie shells for currency?
Maldives
What is the country that its earliest known empire was the Khmer Empire?
Cambodia
A group of people who share a culture is called
civilization
What were the three countries in the South Caucasus?
Armenia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan
Sumerians
A government ruled by religious authority
Theocracy
One of the greatest cities of ancient times that was also a trading post in North Africa
Carthage
The Babylonian ruler who wrote 300 Laws about every day life
Hammurabi
The capital of Syria
Damascus
The capital of Turkey
Ankara
The capital of India
New Delhi
The capital of Thailand
Bangkok
The capital of South Korea
Seoul
The capital of Taiwan
Taipei
The site of a 1989 protest against Communism in China
Tiananmen Square
Ninevah
The study of the earth's surface, climate, countries, people, and cultures
Geography
Iraqi dictator who invaded Kuwait
Saddam Hussein
The founder of the religion of Buddhism
Siddartha Gautama
People who have left their country because of hardship
Refugees
The Peace Agreement that recognized Israel as an independent country?
Abraham Accords
A line of rulers from the same family
Dynasty
The largest shifting-sand desert in the world
Taklamakan
Monarchy where nine sultans take turns ruling every 5 years
Rotating
The largest of the 3 Asian river valley civilizations
Yellow River Valley Civilization
A group of lines that go up and down from side to side on a map
Grid
The two important lines of latitude in the Northern Hemisphere
Arctic circle; Tropic of Cancer
The Western Hemisphere contains the continents of
North America and South America
What do you called the greatest distance around the world?
circumference
The Taj Mahal was a tomb built for the wife of the ruler from what country?
India
Chain of volcanoes in the Pacific
Three countries previously known as French Indochina
Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos
What is the country where Mount Pinatubo erupted in1991?
Philippines
The fierce Mongol ruler who united the Mongol tribe
Genghis Khan
The Venetian trader who explored China
Marco Polo
The third-largest island in the world
Borneo
What is the peninsula that connects Africa to Asia called?
Sinai
Who was the Jewish captive who was trained to serve the king of Babylon?
Daniel