This region between Pakistan and India has been fought over since 1947.
What is Kashmir?
100
This is the economic union that uses a common currency and has 27 members.
What is the European Union?
100
This region has Japan, the Koreas, and Taiwan.
What is East Asia?
100
This is who we fought in the war in Southeast Asia in the 1960s.
What are Communists (or Viet Cong with Chinese help)?
100
These two countries are connected by the longest unfortified border in the world.
What are the U. S. and Canada?
200
This is the "no person's land" between North and South Korea.
What is the demilitarized zone (DMZ)?
200
This organization is designed to prevent wars, and its peacekeepers are negotiators rather than soldiers.
What is the United Nations?
200
This region faces obstacles to trade: smooth coastlines with few harbors, plus rivers that are hard to navigate into the interior.
What is Africa south of the Sahara?
200
The Commonwealth of Nations brings together Britain with most of its former _______.
What are colonies?
200
This is a term for clearing rain forest using burning so that soil is enriched temporarily for a farm.
What is shifting agriculture?
300
This place has been the site of a fight over whether it should be part of a Protestant country or a Catholic country.
What is Northern Ireland?
300
This organization promotes trade and products from Southeast Asian countries.
What is the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)?
300
This region has the Danube, Rhine, and Seine Rivers.
What is Europe?
300
This spiritual leader is in conflict with the Chinese government because of his influence in Tibet and worldwide.
Who is the Dalai Lama?
300
What sort of computer program layers one map on top of each other?
What is geographic information systems?
400
This neighboring country has had a dispute with China over government since 1949.
What is Tawian?
400
This organization involves the United States, Canada, and Europe in defending each other.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization?
400
This is the region that includes the land that used to be the ancient kingdom of Persia.
What is Southwest Asia?
400
This is the part of Europe that has less economic development because it had a different kind of economic system in place during the Cold War.
What is eastern Europe?
400
This is a term for making products that are ideally suited for your area, resources, and skills -- like people in Denmark raising dairy cattle, for example.
What is specialization?
500
These are the two countries in which an ethnic dispute between Hutus and Tutsis turned violent in the 1990s.
What are Rwanda and Burundi?
500
This is an organization that has been credited for economic growth, but blamed for a loss of factory jobs and family farms in the United States and Canada.
What is the North American Free Trade Agreement?
500
This is the world region from which the alleged Boston Marathon bombers come.
What is Russia (although they spent most of their childhoods in Central Asia)?
500
This is the peninsula in which UN peacekeepers could not prevent ethnic conflict between Serbs, Bosnians, and Croats in the 1990s.
What is the Balkan peninsula?
500
This has caused a loss of soil fertility in the Nile Delta.