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This city, the capital of Thailand, is on the banks of the Chao Phraya River.
What is Bangkok?
100
Cultures from India and this country had a lot of influence on Southeast Asia.
What is China?
100
Europeans spread this religion in Southeast Asia.
What is Christianity?
100
Because of high unemployment, many people have left this country looking for work. They will often send money back to their families.
What is the Philippines?
100
Sediment from rivers create fertile soil in Thailand's Central Plain making it a good place for planting this crop.
What is rice?
200
This country is the only landlocked country found in the region.
What is Laos?
200
These attracted European explorers to the region in the 1500s.
What are spices?
200
In this country, four out of five young people work in cities.
What is Thailand?
200
This country has a mainland and island region.
What is Malaysia?
200
The United States fought a war in Vietnam from 1964 - 1973. One reason was that it feared North Vietnam would spread this type of government.
What is Communism?
300
Scientists are discovering new plant and animal species in these mountains.
What are the Foja Mountains?
300
In 1946, the Philippines gained its independence from this country.
What is the United States?
300
In this religion, people perform rituals to please the spirits.
What is animism?
300
The government of this country heavily invested in its infrastructure to gain access to current technology.
What is Singapore?
300
Because Southeast Asia is located where four of these meet, it is known as a continuously changing geographic zone.
What are tectonic plates?
400
This landform is created where the Mekong River approaches the sea.
What is a delta?
400
During World War II, this country gained control of Indonesia and the Philippines.
What is Japan?
400
Due to countries from this continent creating colonies in Southeast Asia, many languages from this continent are spoken in Southeast Asia.
What is Europe?
400
These are the two official languages of the Philippines.
What is English and Filipino?
400
Fossils found on this Indonesian island suggest that humans have been present here for more than one million years.
What is Java?
500
The government of Malaysia banned the harvest of what type of wood after a landslide in 1989 that was caused by deforestation.
What is teak wood?
500
This was the largest and longest lasting empire found in ancient Southeast Asia.
What is the Khmer Empire?
500
This are the main reasons poachers kill Asian elephants.
What is for their tusks/ivory and meat?
500
The government of this country moved people from its inner islands to its outer islands.
What is Indonesia?
500
Locating people from the inner islands to the outer islands in Indonesia had some unwanted effects. One was environmental damage caused by this.
What is new farming methods?