Geography
What mountain range runs along the northern border of India?
Himalayan mountains
Was Confucius a god or a founder of the Confucianism religion?
founder
How has India's need to develop more industry ended up creating problems along the Ganges River?
Factories along the river dump industrial waste and chemicals into the river.
What was the dividing line that separates North and South Korea?
The 38th parallel
why did Mahatma Gandhi protest
Indian independence leader Mohandas Gandhi begins a defiant march to the sea in protest of the British monopoly on salt, his boldest act of civil disobedience yet against British rule in India.
What is the most populated city in china
shanghai
What is the oldest of the major religions of the world?
Hinduism
Why has the Indian government had problems reducing air pollution?
They do not want to slow economic growth
what is the main reason The u.s got involved in the Korean war
containment of communism
How did the First World War help in the growth of the National Movement in India.
During the First World War, the British army forcibly recruited people from the rural areas of India.
• To finance the defence expenditure, custom duties were raised and income taxes were imposed.
• During 1918-19 and 1920-21, crops failed in many parts of India which resulted in acute food shortages. All this caused extensive anger and opposition against the British colonial rule, and the national movement of India headed towards a stronger and more definitive direction.
5 rivers located in the southeast Asia
yellow river, Indus river, Mekong river, and the Yangtze river
What is Dharma
regarded in Hinduism as a cosmic law underlying right behavior and social order.
How do farms contribute to water pollution?
fertilizers and pesticides have chemicals that runoff into water sources
Who was put in charge of the American forces in Korea and even wanted to use the atomic bomb against China?
Douglas MacArthur
When did Mahatma Gandhi return to India?
In January, 1915
Indonesia is made up of how many islands
Over 17,000 islands
What is the Tipitaka?
a book of budda's teachings
True or False?
Cutting down trees and draining wetlands have helped cause more flooding
True
What did Joseph McCarthy do?
McCarthy declared that he had the list of 205 State Department officials who belonged to the Communist Party.
Why did Gandhiji decide to withdraw the Non-Cooperation Movement.
The movement was turning violent at few places. In 1922, at Chauri-Chaura in Gorakhpur, a peaceful demonstration turned into a violent clash in which more than 20 policemen were killed.
Korea is separated from Japan by what strait?
Tsushima Strait
what is a Veda
the most ancient Hindu scriptures, written in early Sanskrit and containing hymns, philosophy, and guidance on rituals for the priests of the Vedic religion.
True or False?
Flooding caused by the Huang He (Yellow) River in China has caused more deaths than any other river in the world.
True
How did the Korean War end?
North and South Korea agreed to an armistice in 1953 (no treaty was signed to formally end the war) and the two countries remain divided by the 38th parallel.
Why were Indians outraged by the Rowlatt Act.
1. it gave the government autocratic powers to repress political activities and allowed detention of political prisoners without a trial for two years.
• It was clearly injustice and oppressive for Indians