Religion
This religion includes the worship of kami, torii gates, and was founded in Japan.
What is Shintoism?
This type of climate/environment covers around 80% of the Middle East.
What is desert?
This is the largest desert in the world located in Northern Africa.
What is the Sahara Desert?
This is the tallest mountain peak in the world located in Nepal.
What is Mount Everest?
This war divided the Korean peninsula in two.
What is the Korean War?
Millions of Muslims travel to this holy city every year on a religious pilgrimage.
What is Mecca?
This religion is dominant throughout MENA.
What is Islam?
This is an international effort to plant millions of trees along the Southern border of the Sahara desert.
What is the Great Green Wall?
This European country colonized India and nicknamed the region 'The Crown Jewel'.
What is the UK/England/the British?
This is the world's largest hydroelectric dam.
What is the Three Gorges Dam?
This is the process of birth-life-death-rebirth found in many Asian religions.
What is reincarnation?
This is a man made structure that makes travel from the Asia to Europe much easier.
What is the Suez Canal?
Daily Double!: This event was the meeting of European powers to divide Africa into colonial territories.
What is the Berlin Conference?
This is a common economic practice found in India when foreign companies hire workers to provide services such as tech support.
What is outsourcing?
This is a political ideology that can be found in China, North Korea, and Vietnam.
What is Communism?
This religion is a blend of Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism and was founded in Northern India.
What is Sikhism?
This organization controls the supply and price of oil.
What is the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries or OPEC?
This is a major threat to the Sahel and is caused by the overgrazing of animals and drought.
What is desertification?
This causes the division of Indians into a rigid class structure.
This was a law introduced by China to slow its population growth and prevent overpopulation.
What is the One Child Policy?
These three major religions were founded in the Middle East.
What is Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
This the name for the fertile river valleys around the Nile, Tigris, and Euphrates. Believed to one of the areas where some of the earliest humans first settled.
What is the Fertile Crescent or cradle of civilization?
This is the legal seperation of blacks and whites in South Africa.
What is Apartheid?
This is a seasonal event that provides predictable rainfall and can dramatically change the environment during the rainy or dry season.
What is a monsoon?
Because of Japan's location on the Ring of Fire they are subject to these two major natural disasters.
What are earthquakes and tsunamis?