Unit 0-3: Intro and Europe
Keeping something intact
preservation
The two ethnic groups involved the Rwandan Genocide
Hutu and Tutsi
A factor that drives people away from a place
Push Factor
The cities in Japan where the United States dropped the atomic bombs at the end of WWII
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
This country is also considered a continent
Australia
Used to determine which direction to travel on a map
Richest man in world history
Mansa Musa
The social class system in Hinduism where people are born into a certain class and stay there for life
Caste System
Policy in China that allowed families to only have one child
One Child Policy
The country is home to the Kiwi
New Zealand
the beliefs, behaviors, objects, and other characteristics common to the members of a particular group or society.
Culture
An area where new ideas and innovations spring up and spread to other parts of the world
Cultural Hearth
Densely populated area of substandard housing, usually in a city, characterized by unsanitary conditions and social disorganization
Slums
The name of the gods in Shintoism
Kami
This is the largest living structure in the world
The Great Barrier Reef
a piece of land that is bordered by water on three sides but connected to mainland.
Peninsula
The tallest mountain in Africa
Mt Kilimanjaro
The ancient civilization southwest of the Himalayas, whose cities had running water and mysteriously disappeared! (definitely not aliens, yeah...)
The symbol of Taoism
Yin and Yang
The world's largest desert
Antarctica
Scandinavian warriors who raided Europe and the Mediterranean Sea between 800 and 1100 CE
Vikings
Structures built by Egyptian peasants to hold the bodies of the pharaohs
Pyramids
Area that India, Pakistan, and China all claim
Kashmir
Area of the world where 90% of the world's earthquakes and volcanos are
This continent has NO permanent residents
Antarctica