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High levels of citizen participation is a feature of this former of government.
What is democratic?
100
Skilled software professionals working on computers to develop new accounting programs for Microsoft are an example of this.
What is human capital?
100
The United States policy of containment, which caused it to become involved in conflicts in Korea and Vietnam was meant to do this.
What is stop the spread of communism?
100
This leader turned to communism in order to obtain his nation's independence.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
100
This river is in crisis due to a wide variety of pollution, including chemical crop fertilizers.
What is the Ganges River?
200
India is a federal republic with a national government and 28 state governments. Japan is a unitary form of government. They are both examples of this type of government.
What is a representative democracy?
200
A currency exchange is necessary for this to occur.
What is international trade?
200
This aspect of Hinduism has had a deep, long-term effect on the history of India.
What is the caste system?
200
This religion began in India when Siddhartha Gautama gave up his life of luxury as a prince and left his palace to seek truth. Its followers live simple lives of meditation, and they reject both materialism and the caste system.
What is Buddhism?
200
Hinduism and Buddhism became major religions in southern and eastern Asia because they both began here.
What is the Indian subcontinent?
300
North Korea's command economy has remained unchanged for over half a century because it has been ruled by a series of these.
What are communist dictators?
300
India and Japan both have mixed-market economies, which means that supply and demand determine this.
What is production?
300
After World War Two, Japan's emperor went through this transition.
What is absolute monarch to constitutional monarch?
300
This leader's most important goal after taking control of his country in 1949 was to reunite it after decades of civil war.
Who is Mao Zedong?
300
Due to mountainous terrain and deserts, most of this country's population lives along the coasts and on the vast, fertile plains.
What is China?
400
Japan's legislature is called the National Diet, and all of the government decisions are made at that level. That means that Japan has this type of government.
What is unitary?
400
This causes a sharp decrease in the amount of foreign goods imported into a country.
What is an embargo?
400
The occupation and rebuilding of Japan after World War Two was an example that democracy supports this.
What are stable governments?
400
This leader went against centuries of social tradition to unify his people in order to gain his country's independence.
Who is Mohandas Gandhi?
400
Due to climate and geography, most people in southern and eastern Asia live near these physical features.
What are rivers?
500
To have a positive impact on the long term standard of living of its citizens, a country should invest tax revenue in this.
What is infrastructure?
500
Specialization of production encourages this by having each country sell goods that it is best able to produce.
What is international trade?
500
Nationalism took vastly different paths to independence in these two nations.
What are India and Vietnam?
500
Paras is from India, and he moved to the United States when he was twenty-two years old to study computer engineering at Georgia Tech. Now he lives in Lilburn with his family and he worships at the Hindu temple at the corner of Rockbridge and Lawrenceville Highway, which reveals this about him.
What is his religious group?
500
A temperate climate with moderate rainfall is the climate feature that most encouraged this in China.
What is heavy urban settlement?