Physical Geography
This river runs from the Mediterranean through Egypt and Sudan.
What is the Nile River?
East and Southeast Asian cuisine is primarily rooted in this staple crop.
What is rice?
This country has the largest population in the world.
What is India?
This country's ongoing civil war is the source of campus tensions and political contestation over military aid in the United States.
What is Israel?
This country was, until 2021, by far the world's largest exporter of opium.
What is Afghanistan?
These mountains form the Western coast of South America.
What are the Andes?
This Latin American religious concept marries Christianity and socialism.
What is liberation theology?
This general cause of death account for more than 50% of deaths in Africa.
What are infectious diseases?
This country forced its liberated Caribbean colony to pay restitutions to their former slave owners.
What is France?
This trade agreement, which failed in the U.S. due to universal opposition in the 2016 Presidential election, would have created a free trade zone among Southeast Asian and West-coast American countries.
What is the Trans-Pacific Partnership?
This circular pattern of geologic activity produces fertile soil across the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Ring of Fire?
Lebanon's cultural heritage is frequently associated with this breed of tree.
What are cedars?
This social service is one of the most significant determinants of a country's birth rate.
What is family planning/women's healthcare?
This Muslim-majority South Asian country gained independence in 1971 after decades of rule by another non-neighboring Muslim-majority South Asian country.
What is Bangladesh?
The IMF's program of neoliberal structural adjustment is informed by this set of policies.
What is the Washington Consensus?
This sea in Central Asia has lost 90% of its volume since 1960.
What is the Aral Sea?
This Asian capital city holds the record for most official name changes.
What is Astana?
Middle Eastern people, particularly those living in the desert, often practice this kind of settlement and lifestyle tradition.
What is pastoral nomadism?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: This act of non-violent protest, borrowed from Buddhist Vietnamese, set off the Arab Spring in 2011.
What is self-immolation?
This 1973 event sparked a sharp increase in global oil prices.
What is the Arab Oil Embargo/the 1973 Arab-Israeli War?
Steep slopes around a long plateau define this major topographical area primarily located in South Africa
What is the Great Escarpment?
The fifth pillar of Islam requires Muslims to travel to Mecca at least once during their life to see and pray at this building.
What is the Kaaba?
This country has the highest birth rate outside of Africa.
What is Afghanistan?
Al-Qaeda and other radical jihadist groups subscribe to the ideas of this Islamic fundamentalist movement.
What is Salafism?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: The majority of mining operations in Southeast Asia and Oceania are owned by this multinational corporation.
What is Freeport-McMoran?