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51 Cards in this Set
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What is the caste system? |
strict social structure of India |
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What was China's longest ruling dynasty? |
Chou |
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What is not a major river valley in Asia? |
Nile |
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Ancient India made its greatest contributions to civilization in the realm of _____. |
Mathematics |
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Who united Upper and Lower Egypt into one nation? |
Menes |
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What important African city became an Egyptian center of life and one of the great cities of the Arab world? |
Cairo |
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What did Asoka do? |
Built the Maurya Empire |
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What important African trading center became a famous center for learning and culture? |
Timbuktu |
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Who built the greatest ancient civilization in Africa's interior? |
Cush |
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Who started the largest continental empire in history? |
Genghis Khan |
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Longest river in the world |
Nile River |
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Africa's largest lake |
Lake Victoria |
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Africa's highest mountain |
Mount Kilimanjaro |
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Japan's most famous mountain |
Mount Fuji |
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Africa's longest lake |
Lake Tanganyika |
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Africa's largest desert |
Sahara Desert |
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What false religion, founded by Siddhartha Gautama, tries to reach a state of "nirvana"? |
Buddhism |
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What ruler is considered the founder of Japanese civilization? |
Prince Shotoku |
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Who has the Frenchman that was able to decipher the hieroglyphics of the Rosetta Stone? |
Champollion |
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What dynasty inaugurated India's "golden age"? |
Guptas |
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What country is known to have first made paper? |
China |
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Shinto is the oldest surviving religion in ____. |
China |
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Who were Edesius and Frumentius? |
Missionaries |
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The Book of the Dead is important in the history of _____. |
Egypt |
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Wrote the oldest surviving hymn |
Clement |
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Great pharaoh whose pyramid is the largest |
Cheops |
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Emperor of Japan |
Mikado |
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First emperor of a united China |
Shih Huang Ti |
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Egyptian teenage pharaoh |
Tutankhamen |
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Great ruler of the Mali Empire in Africa |
Mansa Musa |
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Established the Mogul Empire in India |
Babar |
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Greek "Father of History" |
Herodotus |
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Remembered for carrying Jesus' cross |
Simon of Cyrene |
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The Rosetta Stone helped solve the riddle of ____ writing. |
Egyptian |
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_____,_____, and the ____ are Southeast Asian countries that give some measure of freedom to their people. |
Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines |
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Alexander's general Ptolemy was given ____ to rule. |
Egypt |
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What best symbolizes the Egyptian conception of state and society? |
Pyramid |
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What term was given to the warriors, or knights, of feudal Japan? |
Samurai |
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Who was the Egyptian female pharaoh that ruled jointly with her nephew? |
Hatshepsut |
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What is the largest rift in the earth's surface? |
Great Rift Valley |
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What two territories seceded from India to become independent states? |
Pakistan and Bangladesh |
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What highway linked China to the Roman world? |
Great Silk Road |
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What beautiful building was built as a tomb for a Mogul ruler's wife? |
Taj Mahal |
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Taoism was the pagan religion of the Chinese philosopher ____. |
Lao-tse |
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Miriam is an ancient name of _____. |
Egypt |
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The Hyksos ended the ____ Kingdom of Egypt. |
Middle |
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_____ is an Indian religion of reincarnation. |
Hinduism |
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____ is the world's oldest living civilization. |
China |
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Marco Polo spent 20 years in the service of the ____. |
Kublai Khan |
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Chung-kuo is an ancient name of _____. |
China |
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ESSAY: Compare Hinduism with Buddhism and discuss at least two effects these false religions have had on the people of Asia. |
Hinduism the pagan religion that is pantheistic and polytheistic in nature. Man's goal is to have oneness with the universal spirit, Brahma, by eliminating individual personality. Karma law states the soul's reincarnation to achieve union with the universal spirit. Buddhism was created from Hinduism and is polytheistic and pantheistic. Man must follow the "Middle Way" and the Noble Eightfold Path, and eliminating desires to reach nirvana. Both have kept their countries in poverty and caste systems. They both treat animals as sacred and have kept their countries backward and in cultural stagnation. |
