Africa
This is a continent.
What is Africa?
What is the Middle East or Near East?
The Large mountain chain that borders the north of South Asia.
What are the Himalayas?
This island nation is not recognized by China as being independent but rather a part of China itself.
What is Taiwan?
This religion is based off of a covenant between Abraham and Yahweh and is one of the oldest monotheistic religions.
What is Judaism?
This form of government usually has a hereditary head of state based on who was related to the previous ruler.
What is a monarchy?
This is the basic medium of exchange between individuals and groups. It also might be the root of all evil.
What is money or currency?
This was the nickname referring to the rush by Europeans to conquer and colonize Africa. It is not just a way to order your eggs.
What is the Scramble for Africa?
The Arabian peninsula is mostly made up of this climate.
What is a desert?
This company took over most of the region through brutal economic policies and warfare.
What is the British East India Company?
This was the spiritual basis that enabled different dynasties to control China as emperors.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
Siddhartha Gautama is the founder of this Asian religion. he usually goes by his post enlightenment name.
What is Buddhism?
OPEC mainly deals with the economics and prices around this trade good.
What is petroleum or oil?
What is the Sahel?
What is Mesopotamia in the Fertile Crescent?
This region is often fought over by both India and Pakistan.
What is Kashmir?
This group created the largest land empire in history.
Who are the Mongols or the Mongolian Empire?
Not truly a religion this belief system stresses how to live ones life morally in Chinese society.
What is Confucianism?
These two countries in East Asia are still considered communist.
What are China and North Korea?
This is the massive trade route connecting Europe to China.
What is the Silk Road?
The passing down of stories, histories, and important information from generation to the next.
What is Oral Tradition?
What is an ancient Mesopotamian pyramid?
What is Sikhism?
These were used to determine if someone was fit for work in Imperial China.
What were the Civil Service Exams?
This is the ultimate goal in Buddhism. and also a pretty solid grunge band.
What is Nirvana?
This country successfully fought a protracted war against the French, The United States, and then China in mid-1900s.
What is the Republic of Vietnam?
This is the man-made channel that connects the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea.
What is the Suez Canal?
The genocide of the tutsis by the hutus in 1994 occurred in this African country.
What is Rwanda?
Israel has been in conflict with this competing state since its formation in 1949.
What is Palestine?
these are the seasonal winds that result in wet rainy summers and drought like hot winters.
What are monsoon winds?
This is the strip of land separating North and South Korea.
What is the Demilitarized Zone or DMZ?
These are the Abrahamic religions.
What are Judaism, Christianity, and Islam?
This region has been occupied by China since 1949. The Dalai Lama is considered its leader even though he has not been there since its conquest.
What is Tibet?
The wealth of most Southwest Asian countries is based around this resource.
What is oil production?
These two trade goods made several West African Empire, including Mali, exceedingly wealthy.
What is gold and salt?
This king wrote a strict code of laws to govern Sumeria. ( I 4 I )
Who is Hammurabi?
This spiritual leader of India taught the importance of civil disobedience and non-violent protesting.
Who is Modhandas Gandhi?
Kami are the central spirits found in this Japanese religion.
What is Shintoism?
This series of religious wars engulfed Southwest Asia in conflict from the 11th to 14th centuries and mainly centered on the control of Jerusalem.
What are the Crusades?
Bhutan measures its countries success by this unusual metric.
What is citizen happiness?
Many African countries have trouble taking advantage of their resources because...
Most of their mines and factories are controlled by foreign companies.
Trade and conquest brought this religion to North and East Africa.
What is Islam?
This country has been invaded by almost every major empire in history including Alexander the Great, Persia, Mongols, Great Britain, Russia, and the United States.
What is Afghanistan?
This is the second largest movie studio in the world.
What is Bollywood?
This was used by Great Britain to try and control trade with China. It eventutally lead to two wars.
This is the ancient Persian religion and centers on the worship in fire temples.
What is Zoroastrianism?
The Balfour declaration promised the creation of a Jewish State in Palestine was a problem because...
The land had already been promised to the Native Arab population and the French and the British already.
Spice, Silk, and Gemstones are all trade goods that brought many merchants and traders to this region.
What is Southeast Asia?