East Asia
What is the capital of Japan?
Tokyo
What is the capital of Vietnam?
Hanoi
Jerusalem is claimed by which two countries?
Israel & Palestine
What is the capital of India?
New Delhi
What is the capital of Australia?
Canberra
Who was the founder of the Mongol Empire, known for uniting the nomadic tribes of Mongolia?
Genghis Khan
What is the name of the communist guerilla group that fought against the South Vietnamese forces and the United States in the Vietnam war?
The Viet Cong
Which two rivers run through modern day Iraq that once supported the ancient Mesopotamian societies?
Tigris and Euphrates
What is the period of British rule in India called?
Who are the indigenous people of Australia?
Aboriginal Australians
Which communist China policy had the goal of industrializing the nation quickly but instead the result was a great famine and death.
The Great Leap Forward
What is the idea that if one country became communist, nearby countries would too?
The Domino Theory
What are the two groups of Islam that disagree on who should lead the community after Muhammad's death?
Sunni and Shia
Who used nonviolent protests to help India gain independence from British rule?
Gandhi
What is the spiritual system of the Aboriginal Australians that explores creation stories and moral lessons
Dreamtime/dreaming
What was the name of the student group that attacked teachers, intellectuals, and traditional "old ways" during the Cultural Revolution in communist China?
The Red Guards
Who was the dictator of Cambodia that led the Khmer Rouge?
Pol Pot
Which ethnic group from the Middle East is spread across Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Syria but has no country of its own?
the Kurds
What is the capital of Pakistan?
Islamabad
What is the capital of New Zealand
Wellington
!!DAILY DOUBLE!! Name one item on the silk road and where it started from in the trade route.
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What were the goals of North Vietnam vs South Vietnam
North- communism
South- democracy
What is the most important natural resource found in the Middle East?
oil/natural gas
!!DAILY DOUBLE!! What is the name of the famous march that Gandhi led and what was it about?
The Salt March, because of taxes put on salt and other Indian-made goods
How was Australia first colonized by the British?
It was a penal colony