Oceania
What major ocean are the countries of Oceania located in?
The Pacific Ocean
What is the name of the river that the ancient Chinese civilization developed around.
The Yellow River (Huang He)
Aun San Suu Kyi, the leader of democracy in this country was recently sentenced to prison by the the military junta.
Myanmar/Burma
This capital city, whose people are nicknamed Kiwi's, is located on the North Island, near the South Island of this Maori Nation that was colonized by the British.
Wellington
This is another word for native.
Indigenous
This British explorer took three voyages to the Pacific before he was killed in Hawaii in 1779.
Captain James Cook
About half of the people in this East Asian country have a traditonal nomadic lifestyle. They live in yurts and are skilled at archery and horseback riding.
Mongolia
What country in Southeast Asia uses colorful Jeepneys for public transportation?
The Philippines
Formerly known as Edo, the Tokugawa Shogunate moved this capital city here from Kyoto, and then closed the country for 264 years.
Tokyo
This is the word for the native religon of Japan.
Shinto
The United States conducted a series of nuclear bomb tests between 1946-1953 on the islands of this country making them unihabitable.
The Marshall Islands
This Communist leader of China was responsible for the death of over 50 million Chinese people after the failure of his Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution policies.
Mao Zedong
What 3 countries in Southeast Asia were colonized by the French and previously known as French Indochina?
Cambodia
Laos
Vietnam
Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah has a palace with a pond in the middle of this Islamic capital city located on a small oil rich part of the island of Borneo.
Bandar Seri Begawan
This is the leader of some Islamic countries, including Malaysia and Brunei.
Sultan
Name the 4 regions of Oceania.
Australasia
Melanesia
Polynesia
Micronesia
The nationalist leader Chang Kai Shek fled China in 1949 and relocated his government known as the Republic of China to this island.
Taiwan (Formosa)
What was the southern Vietnamese city of Saigon renamed after the end of the Vietnam War?
Ho Chi Minh City
This capital is a new city made by the military junta in Myanmar.
Naypyidaw
When a climate has a dry season and a rainy season, this is the word for the rainy weather.
Monsoon
What 3 places in Oceania are territories of the United States?
American Samoa
Guam
Northern Marianas (Saipan)
President Millard Fillmore sent this Naval Commander to Japan in 1854 who sucessfully opened up the country to trade with the United States.
Matthew C. Perry
The Dutch East India Company colonized what country from 1602 to 1830.
Indonesia
The capital city is located in the northern part of this communist country that won a war against the United States in the 1970's.
Hanoi
What is the word for traditional Korean clothing?
Hanbok