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Due to the location of the Himalayas at its northern border, this vast sub-continent has a natural boundary between it and its neighbors.
What is India?
A region typically noted by its concentration of oil reserves, central location, and large Muslim population.
What is the Middle East?
This resource is the predominant export of the Middle Eastern region of Asia and accounts for the source of wealth in countries like Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
What is oil?
China's attempt to stop flooding led to the creation of this massive hydroelectric structure on the Yangtze River?
This Asian region contains one of two double-landlocked countries.
What is Central Asia? (Uzbekistan)
The Alps touch nearly every country in this European region.
What is Central Europe?
Many of these countries, once under Russian control, claimed independence after the fall of the Soviet Union in the early 90s.
What is known as Eastern Europe?
These three major religions sprung out of the Middle East, known as the birthplace of civilization.
Christianity, Islam, and Judaism.
As a result of the earth's tilt, the people of the Arctic Circle have to adapt to what phenomenon?
What are 6 months of darkness and 6 months of light?
Due to its proximity, many of these countries were easy targets for the spread of Russian communism.
What are the Balkan and Baltic countries? (Eastern Europe also accepted).
Due to its low elevation and miles of coastline, this country has had to create adaptations to combat floods.
What is the Netherlands?
These four countries are often referred to colloquially as simply "the U.K".
What are England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland?
Every western country can likely find influences such as the alphabet, roads, or calendar from this ancient empire.
What is the Roman Empire?
The low-lying Netherlands solution to combat the flooding of their complex coastline while maintaining inland river flow.
What is the Delta Works?
This continent, often referred to as simply "Australia", refers to a large section of the Pacific Ocean that contains many islands.
What is Oceania?
A huge shelf of ice surrounded by freezing ocean water at the southernmost point of the globe.
What is Antarctica?
This region's proximity to the largest inland sea allowed for the spread of Christianity and Roman-Greko culture throughout the world.
What is Mediterranean Europe?
This totalitarian form of government spread throughout Eastern Europe until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and still influences the region today.
What is communism?
These landlocked countries were once on a major trade route called The Silk Road, yet are now relatively isolated despite their ample resources.
What is Central Asia (the "stans")
The US island state is actually located in these Pacific Islands.
What is Polynesia?
The major European river carrying more traffic than any other river in the world.
What is the Rhine?
This region, while made up of distinct countries, shares a common thread of socialist governments, location near or in the Arctic Circle, and and outdoor/eco-friendly culture.
What is Scandanavia?
This island continent was discovered by the Dutch, but later declared a penal colony by England which effectively began its formal settlement by Europeans.
After centuries of human use, this sacred Southern Asian river has become one of the most polluted rivers in the world.
What is the Ganges River?
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