Textbook - Asia

What was invented during the Han dynasty allowing government officials to better keep track of records?

Which of the following does "the Buddha" translate to?

How many times a day do Islamic people pray?

India mainly practices which religion today?

Where did the Nationalist part of China flee to and establish a government called the Republic of China?

Who believed that rulers should lead his people as though he were the head of a family?

What invention helped sailors find their direction at sea?

Which Chinese ruler believed in communism and had gained support from the country's farmers?

To supply land with water through ditches or pipes.

What is the parent language of Hindi?

What country is the Taj Mahal located in?

How many major religions were born in Southwest Asia?

On what month, day and year did an Islamist organization called al-Qaeda carry out a terrorist attack on U.S. soil?

Which ancient civilization established a system of varnas, or castes?

Which key country supported South Korea?

Siam is which country today?

After World War II North Korea practiced which form of government?

Which Chinese dynasty started building the Great Wall?

The teachings of which of the following Jewish teachers led to the rise of Christianity?

A line of rulers from a single family that holds power for a long time.

The spread of control of nuclear power, particularly the knowledge of how to construct nuclear weapons.

Approximately how long is the Great Wall of China?

The government of which of the following was removed in the Second Persian Gulf War in 2003 in Iraq?

The use of nonviolent protests to challenge a government of its laws.

Which of the following did Siddhartha Gautama found?

What does Shinto translate to?

Most of the people living in Palestine following World War II were what?

A farm that is owned by the government but run by a group of farmers who work together.

Which country did NOT gain freedom from French rule in the 1950s?

Persia is the present country of what?

Describing a society based on herding animals.

In which of the following cities did Muhammad announce his message?

A period of a thousand years.

Who started Daoism?

The belief in Hinduism that after a person dies, his or her soul is reborn into another body.

What are madrassas?

Which European power ruled over much of what today is known as India, Pakistan and Bangladesh?

The social class a person is born into and cannot change.

An area of a country where a single foreign power has been granted exclusive trading rights.

What is the religion of Muslims?

What is a state of eternal bliss?

A large farm.

Which of the following is regarded by Muslims as the last and greatest of the prophets?

Which group is said to have defeated the Tartar's?

A military leader who ruled Japan in early times.

The Soviets built one of the world's longest of these known as Kara-Kum. It was more than 500 miles long.

The ruler of a Muslim country.

To refuse to buy items from a particular country or company.

Which is NOT one of the four classifications groups in the Aryan caste system?

The United States determined that which Afghanistan Islamist ruling group was supporting al-Qaeda?

Mesopotamia was a fertile plain between what two rivers?

What is the belief that actions in this life can affect your next life?

What does USSR stand for?

What was the last dynasty of China?

How many duties are their in the Pillars of Islam?

For many centuries until the early 1900s rulers known as what governed China?

Who granted the Philippines independence in 1946?

Along what road did China receive wool, gold, and silver? They sent silk, tea, spices, paper, and fine porcelain.

The First Persian Gulf War took place primarily in which country?

What forms the largest single religious site in the world?

Two major centers of Indus Valley culture were located at Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro in which modern day country?

A powerful, land-owning warrior in Japan.

Who taught people that they should live in harmony with nature?

What is Holland known as today?

Which of the following was built across Russia between 1891 and 1905?

Which of the following is NOT a religion that developed in Southwest Asia?

What is the main religion of Central Asia today?

Which is NOT one of the Four Noble Truths of Buddhism?

What are Russian labor camps spread across Siberia in the 1930s known as?

What is the Taj Mahal mostly built of?

What country has been a constitutional monarchy since 1932?

Which Muslim empire endured for six centuries before finally collapsing in the early 1900s?

Which was the first Chinese dynasty to leave written records?

What was established to separate North and South Korea?

What is the name of the time period when European explorers made long voyages in search of gold, silver and spices?

A system of government in which the government controls the ways of producing goods.

What did Gupta scholars develop that we still use today?

The period of time in which Great Britain controlled India as a part of the British Empire.

The belief in more than one god.

Mesopotamia is located mostly in which present day country?

From ancient times through the Middle Ages this valuable item from Southeast Asia had reached Europe through traders?

A form of government in which a monarch is the head of state but elected officials run the government.

Jews believe the father of the Israelite people was which of the following?

The main temple of Angkor Wat appears on the flag of which country?

What does "mahatma" mean?

After the Ottoman Empire dissolved, what modern country was founded on the Anatolian Peninsula?

The belief in one god.

What are the Caucasus a crossroads between?

What were long poetic texts the Aryans came up with called?

Which of the following titles did the Russian rulers go by?

In the last 100 years the discovery of vast reserves of what has brought great wealth to Southwest Asia?

Who was the Mauryas more famous ruler?

Muhammad's successors became known as which of the following?

Which is the Arab word for God?

A system of government in which the ruler has complete control.

After World War II South Korea practiced which form of government?