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This country used to be called Burma.
What is Myanmar?
100
India uses this to keep its citizens in different social levels.
What is the caste system?
100
This crop is the primary food source for Asian countries.
What is rice?
100
These mountains contain the worlds highest mountains, including Mt. Everest.
What are the Himalaya Mountains?
100
The sultan of this country is the richest man in the world.
What is Brunei?
200
These two countries are on a peninsula west of Japan.
What are North and South Korea?
200
These are the two dominant religions of China.
What is Confucianism and Buddhism?
200
This country is currently the economic leader of Asia.
What is Japan?
200
This type of soil is very fertile and causes the coloration of the Yellow River.
What is loess?
200
This is the capital city of China.
What is Beijing?
300
This country is east of India and used to be part of Pakistan.
What is Bangladesh?
300
This is the name for temples and shrines in Japan.
What are pagodas?
300
Like the Amazon rain-forest, this is causing major degradation of Asian forests.
What is deforestation?
300
The Gobi desert is caused by this.
What is rain shadow?
300
Much of the rice grown in hilly areas uses this method of farming.
What is terracing?
400
This country has the has the highly populated island of Java as part of it.
What is Indonesia?
400
This is supposedly so large it can be seen from outer space and served to protect China from barbarians.
What is the Great Wall of China?
400
This means ASEAN.
What is the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
400
This body of water focuses monsoons towards Bangladesh causing tremendous loss of life every year.
What is the Bay of Bengal?
400
The earthquakes, volcanoes, and tsunamis are all caused by this.
What is the Ring of Fire?
500
The United States fought and lost a war in this country.
What is Vietnam?
500
This was built as a mausoleum in India and is now a tourist attraction.
What is the Taj Mahal?
500
This is allowing the agriculture of India and south Asia to improve from the subsistence farming it once was.
What is the Green Revolution?
500
This famous mountain is a symbol for Japan and is near Tokyo Bay.
What is MT. Fuji?
500
As is happening elsewhere, conflict between these two religions is causing problems throughout Asia.
What are Muslim and Hindu?