Geography
How many people live in India?
1.4 billion
What does Bhutan’s happiness index measure?
The happiness and well-being of the people
What is the major religion of India?
Hinduism
Pakistan and Bangladesh
Which European explorer discovered many Oceania islands and died in Hawaii?
What is a monsoon?
Heavy winds from the west or east bringing heavy rains and flooding.
Between North and South Korea
Buddhism
What is the largest land empire in the history of the world?
Which country started out as a penal colony?
Australia
What are the six countries in South Asia?
India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka
What is a samurai?
A Japanese noble warrior
What is the caste system?
A strict social class system that makes some people more important and honored than others.
What country colonized most of South Asia?
The British Empire
Which was the only Southeast Asian country not to be colonized?
Thailand (Siam)
What are the six countries in East Asia?
China, Mongolia, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Taiwan
What is happening to the Uighurs?
They are being persecuted by the Chinese government: put into forced labor camps, forced to be sterilized
Who created Buddhism?
The Buddha (Siddhartha Gautama)
Who built the Great Wall of China?
What did the Khmer Rouge do?
Committed a genocide on its own people (Cambodia)
Why do island nations change more slowly that nations on the continents?
They are more isolated.
Why does the United Nations not recognize Taiwan as a country?
Because China claims that Taiwan belongs to them.
Which country has more Muslims than any other?
Indonesia
Which East Asian country conquered a lot of other nations during World War II?
Japan
What was the result of the Vietnam War?