Religion
A religion in which people believe in only one god.
What is monotheism
This is the highest mountain range in the World
What are the Himalayas?
What is urbanization?
A system of government in which the authority to rule is vested in the leader by the people voice.
What is a democracy?
The two rivers that define Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
The Hindu belief that good actions will result in a reincarnation closer to Brahman.
What is Karma
This is the sea between the Arabian Sea and the Indian subcontinent.
What is the Arabian Sea?
The conflict that begun in Tunisia in 2011 and spread to other Northern African and Middle Eastern countries.
What is the Arab Spring?
Who was Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi?
What is Mecca?
The religious text of Islam.
What is the Koran
The India around which the Harappan Civilization developed.
What is the Indus River?
The reason Central Asian countries like Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan are unable to take advantage of its vasts oil reserves.
What is landlocked?
A system of government in which the authority to rule is one's bloodline.
What is a monarchy?
Nomadic herders in the Arabian Peninsula (think Theeb)
Who are Bedouins?
The 4 texts that provide the basis for Hinduism and the language in which they are written.
What are the Vedic texts (or Vedas)? What is Sanskrit?
The mountains that divide Central Asia from the Indian subcontinent.
What are the Hindu Kush?
The two most important resources in the Arabian Peninsula and the reasons for their importance.
What are petroleum (oil) and fossil water. Petroleum is important for these countries economies and fossil water is important because of its scarcity.
A system of government in which the authority to rule is given by the gods. (ie. the political leaders are also the religious leaders).
What is a theocracy?
The Muslim empire in the Indian Subcontinent from 1526 until the 1700s.
What is the Mughal Empire?
What are Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism, and Buddhism?
The elevation of Mount Everest.
What is 29,032 ft. above sea level?
These are three major challenges India faces.
What are (1) overpopulation/urbanization, (2) conflict with Pakistan, (3) conflict between Hindus and Muslims, (4) poverty?
The type of government in which a single individual has absolute authority. Name two contemporary examples.
What is an authoritarian or autocratic government? North Korea, Russia, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia ...
The strait that connects the Black Sea to the Mediterranean (hint: it is in current day Istanbul).
What is the Bosporus Strait?