This type of soil in the Northern regions of Russia make it difficult to build infrastructure.
What is permafrost.
100
This function of an Islamic city is expressed through tall windows that don't allow passers by to peek inside.
What is protecting social norms.
100
This season has the most amount of rain in South and Southeast Asia because of the monsoon.
What is summer.
100
The largest human migration in the world occurs during this holiday.
What is Chinese New Year.
100
This Central Asian country has the highest Gross National Income because of its large Russian population and oil resources.
What is Kazakhstan.
200
These conditions made Russia ripe for revolution in 1905.
What is terrible working conditions and excessive nobility.
200
These two countries fought in the Great Game over Iran. One eventually gained territory in Northern Iran, the other in Southern Iran.
What are Britain and Russia.
200
This was a major consequence of the variability of the monsoon season and was the reason for India's Green Revolution.
What is famine.
200
This dam is the largest in the world by capacity and is located on the Yangtze river in China.
What is the Three Gorges Dam.
200
The government of Tajikistan is implementing this structure to help alleviate its power shortage problem. When built, it will be the tallest in the world.
What is the Roghun Dam.
300
These were the two main goals of the Soviet Union while Joseph Stalin was in power.
What is collectivization and industrialization.
300
This was the main reason the British wanted to out the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran, Mohammad Mossadegh.
What is the nationalization of oil.
300
What is a major consequence of rural to urban migration in India?
What is the development of slums and/or lack of housing infrastructure.
300
This specific geographic area that allows foreign investment in Coastal China has had a huge impact on China's economic growth.
What is Special Economic Zone.
300
While they were a part of the Soviet Union, these two countries provided the majority of the water to the rest of the region.
What are Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan.
400
This major consequence of the collapse of the Soviet Union caused a huge loss of resources for Russia.
What is the independence of satellite states.
400
These are the pillars of Islam: declaration of faith, prayer... (list the other 3)
What are fasting, charity, pilgrimage to Mecca.
400
This ethnic group sided with the British during WWII and have suffered persecution in Burma/Myannmar ever since.
Who are the Karen.
400
This system set up by the Chinese limits rural to urban migration.
What is hokou.
400
This region of Central Asia has the strangest borders in the world and is the region where the majority of agriculture takes place in Central Asia.
What is the Ferghana Valley.
500
What ways did Stalin enforce his plan to increase agricultural production?
What is forced labor (gulags) for those who resisted and he encouraging spying on your neighbors. Collectivization of private property.
500
This overthrow of a foreign government was the first to ever be implemented by the Central Intelligence Agency.
What is 1953 Coup of Iran.
500
Which of the 5 stages of the demographic transition model is most of South Asia in? Provide a description of that stage.
Stage three - in transition. Declining death rates & birth rates, but RNI still not at replacement level (2 children per family).
500
These are the four rules of the One Child Policy.
What is (1) most people can only have one child (2) Rural = 2 children (3) Minorities as many as they want (4) Two only parents = 2 children.
500
The Aral Sea has shrunk dramatically. List 3 environmental and 3 human costs associated with this disaster.