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These people believe in a spiritual leader named Buddha.
What is Buddhism?
The idea that people are reborn into a higher or lower level of living based on how they lived their previous life.
Reincarnation
The growth of deserts, usually caused by cattle overgrazing.
What is desertification?
People who travel from place to place, do not have a permanent home.
Who are nomads?
Muslims do this five times each day
What is pray?
China's different time periods marked by different ruling families.
What are dynasties?
The select and mass killing of a group of people.
What is genocide?
Daily Double: This is a line at 0 degrees longitude
What is the Prime Meridian?
This continent has over 800 languages!
Mummification, pyramids, pharaohs
What is Ancient Egypt?
The number of people living within a certain amount of space.
What is population density?
Daily Double: The act of using sickness/disease as a weapon. Like the Mongols using the plague.
Biowarfare
The body of water that is around India?
What is the Indian Ocean?
This is the dominant language in South America
What is Spanish?
Daily Double: Built floating gardens called chinampas
Who were the Aztec?
A belief that people were born into a certain class and could not move up or down in that class until they were reborn into a higher or lower class. There was a group called the Untouchables.
What is a caste system?
This group believes cows are sacred, are usually vegetarians, and had a caste system.
What is Hinduism?
Developed a writing system known as cuneiform
Who were the Sumerians?
The name of the untouchable class.
What are Dalits?