Europe
This exchange of items, cultures and diseases killed over 90% of people native to the Americas.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The trade route that spread religion and cultural ideas from the Middle East all the way to China (and back again).
What is the Silk Road?
The main religion of India.
What is Hinduism?
The three monotheistic religions that began in this region.
What is Judaism, Christianity and Islam?
North Africa is similar to the Middle East because most countries of this region follow this religion, which began in the Middle East.
What is Islam?
The building up of empires (one of the M.A.I.N. causes of World War I).
What is Imperialism?
The leader of the Cultural Revolution in China.
Who is Chairman Mao?
During the India Partition, this country was created as a safe place for the Muslims.
What is Pakistan?
A conflict in SW Asia that is all about land and who should control it.
What is the Israeli - Palestinian Conflict? (Arab/Israeli conflict is also an acceptable answer)
The main river in Egypt.
What is the Nile River?
What is the Holocaust?
The largest religion in East Asia (this religion spread along the Silk Road).
This man practiced peaceful civil disobedience as he tried to help India gain independence from the British.
Who is Gandhi?
This country's government is attacking its own citizens with chemical weapons.
What is Syria?
The large desert in North Africa.
What is the Sahara Desert?
Germany has this form of government.
What is democracy (or democratic republic)? Limited is also an accepted answer.
Japan is an example of this type of landform.
What is an archipelago?
This river is considered to be holy to the people of the Hindu faith, and most people within India.
This conflict is all about citizens wanting to overthrow their unlimited governments. It began in Tunisia and through social media, the movement spread to other countries in North Africa and Southwest Asia.
What is the Arab Spring?
Most countries in Africa have a history of being controlled by other countries from this continent.
What is Europe?
This organization was created to promote trade between European countries. The main idea was that countries that trade with each other are less likely to go to war.
North Korea's form of government.
What is Totalitarian Communist? (Communist or unlimited are also acceptable answers)
This is the festival of lights - a holiday celebrated by people who follow Hinduism.
What is Diwali?
These two critical rivers flow through Iraq, and provide a much needed water source and transportation route in SW Asia.
What is the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
Many European countries took control of land in Africa so that they could use these items found there.
What are natural resources?