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General

  • What made it possible for Europeans to dominate large areas of Asia and Africa in the 19th and 20th centuries?
  • Which country in the world has the largest population? Which the second largest?

Africa

  • What are the major geographic features of Africa? How has geography affected life for people in Africa?
  • What were the effects of the European slave trade in Africa?
  • What was the result of tribalism in Africa?
  • How were the boundaries of modern African nations formed?
  • What religion dominated in North Africa? Describe its spread in Africa.
  • How do most Africans make their living?

Middle East

  • What are the major geographic features of the Middle East? How has geography affected life for people in the Middle East?
  • What determines where people in the Middle East live?
  • What belief do Christians and Jews share?
  • Why did so many people convert to Islam? What was its appeal?
  • What was the goal of the Crusades?
  • What is the most important resource in the Middle East?
  • What is the main religion in Israel?
  • What city is holy for Jews, Muslims and Christians?
  • What is the oldest monotheistic religion?
  • Against which group have the Israelis been fighting since their nation's birth?
  • What was the purpose of the pyramids of ancient Egypt?
  • What is required in the Muslim pillar of prayer?

 

Russia/Soviet Union

  • What are the major geographic features of Russia? How has geography affected life for people in Russia?
  • Who wrote the Communist Manifesto?
  • To whom did the Russians sell Alaska?
  • Explain how the reunification of Germany occurred.
  • How did the U.S. win the Cold War?

India

  • What are the major geographic features of India? How has geography affected life for people in India?
  • What imperial power dominated India starting in the 18th century?
  • What famous civil rights leader was highly influenced by Gandhi?
  • Who is known as the Enlightened One?
  • In what country did Gandhi first fight to end injustice against Indians?
  • What does Mahatma mean?
  • What religion is practiced by most Indians?

South/Latin America

  • What are the major geographic features of Latin America? How has geography affected life for people in Latin America?
  • Which country is the only communist country in Latin America?
  • In which country in Latin America is Portuguese the main language? Why?
  • What happened to native populations in the Americas after contact with Europeans?

China/Japan

  • What are the major geographic features of China and Japan? How has geography affected life for people in China and Japan?
  • Who/what nation opened up Japan's doors to trade in the 19th century?
  • What nation was most responsible for Japan's economic recovery after World War II?
  • Identify examples of cultural diffusion between China and Japan.
  • Why were nuclear weapons used in Japan? Why was it the only time they have ever been used?

Terms

  • animism
  • bride price
  • bushido
  • caste system
  • civil disobedience
  • clan
  • collectivization
  • command economy
  • communism
  • containment
  • cultural diffusion
  • daimyo
  • ethnocentrism
  • extended family
  • imperialism
  • market economy
  • monotheism
  • monsoon
  • mosque
  • nomad
  • non-alignment
  • oligarchy
  • passive resistance
  • pharaoh
  • polytheism
  • population distribution
  • samurai
  • subsistence farming
  • terracing/terrace farming
  • totalitarian
  • traditional economy
  • tribalism

 

Identify

  • Analects
  • Andes Mountains
  • Arabs
  • Aztecs
  • Boers
  • Buddha
  • Columbian Exchange
  • Confucius
  • Fidel Castro
  • Five Pillars of Islam
  • Gandhi
  • Ghana
  • Great Wall
  • Green Revolution
  • Himalaya Mountains
  • Ho Chi Minh
  • Hong Kong
  • Indira Gandhi
  • Indochina
  • Jerusalem
  • Jomo Kenyatta
  • Koran/Qu'ran
  • Kwame Nkrumah
  • Mali
  • Mao Zedong
  • Marx
  • Mohammed
  • Nelson Mandela
  • Nile River
  • OPEC
  • Ramadam
  • Rim/Ring of Fire
  • Russo-Japanese War
  • Salt March
  • Shintoism
  • Siddhartha Gautama
  • Silk Road
  • Solidarity Movement
  • Songhai
  • Timbuktu
  • United Nations
  • Zionism