4th Quarter - Geography - Quiz 5 - 2023-2024

Question 1

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

Accepted Answer

Doctors and Educators

Question 2

India mainly practices which religion today?

Accepted Answer

Hinduism

Question 3

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

Accepted Answer

Vedas

Question 4

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

Accepted Answer

Communism

Question 5

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

Accepted Answer

Reincarnation

Question 6

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

Accepted Answer

Silk Road

Question 7

What is the religion of Muslims?

Accepted Answer

Islam

Question 8

What forms the largest single religious site in the world?

Accepted Answer

Angkor Wat

Question 9

What is the Taj Mahal mostly built of?

Accepted Answer

White Marble

Question 10

What does Shinto translate to?

Accepted Answer

Sacred Way

Question 11

What invention helped sailors find their direction at sea?

Accepted Answer

Magnetic Compass

Question 12

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

Accepted Answer

Spheres of Influence

Question 13

A military leader who ruled Japan in early times.

Accepted Answer

Shogun

Question 14

What was established to separate North and South Korea?

Accepted Answer

Demilitarized Zone

Question 15

What is a state of eternal bliss?

Accepted Answer

Nirvana

Question 16

What is the parent language of Hindi?

Accepted Answer

Sanskrit

Question 17

Which Chinese ruler believed in communism and had gained support from the country&#x27;s farmers?

Accepted Answer

Mao Zedong

Question 18

Siam is which country today?

Accepted Answer

Thailand

Question 19

What did Gupta scholars develop that we still use today?

Accepted Answer

The Decimal System

Question 20

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

Accepted Answer

Nuclear Proliferation

Question 21

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

Accepted Answer

Communism

Question 22

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

Accepted Answer

Karma

Question 23

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

Accepted Answer

Pakistan

Question 24

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

Accepted Answer

Absolute Monarchy

Question 25

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

Accepted Answer

Laozi

Question 26

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

Accepted Answer

Democracy

Question 27

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

Accepted Answer

Civil Disobedience

Question 28

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

Accepted Answer

Boycott

Question 29

Which key country supported South Korea?

Accepted Answer

United States

Question 30

Approximately how long is the Great Wall of China?

Accepted Answer

4,000-6,000 miles

Question 31

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

Accepted Answer

Great Britain

Question 32

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

Accepted Answer

Dynasty

Question 33

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

Accepted Answer

Age of Discovery

Question 34

Who granted the Philippines independence in 1946?

Accepted Answer

United States

Question 35

What country is the Taj Mahal located in?

Accepted Answer

India

Question 36

Who started Daoism?

Accepted Answer

Laozi

Question 37

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

Accepted Answer

Aryan

Question 38

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

Accepted Answer

Taiwan

Question 39

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

Accepted Answer

Emperors or Empresses

Question 40

What does "mahatma" mean?

Accepted Answer

Great Soul

Question 41

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

Accepted Answer

Papermaking

Question 42

Who was the Mauryas more famous ruler?

Accepted Answer

Ashoka

Question 43

What country has been a constitutional monarchy since 1932?

Accepted Answer

Thailand

Question 44

Which Chinese dynasty started building the Great Wall?

Accepted Answer

Han

Question 45

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

Accepted Answer

Constitutional Monarchy

Question 46

Which of the following did Siddhartha Gautama found?

Accepted Answer

Buddhism

Question 47

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

Accepted Answer

East Timor

Question 48

What is Holland known as today?

Accepted Answer

The Netherlands

Question 49

What was the last dynasty of China?

Accepted Answer

Qing

Question 50

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

Accepted Answer

Cambodia

Question 51

The ruler of a Muslim country.

Accepted Answer

Sultan

Question 52

Which was the first Chinese dynasty to leave written records?

Accepted Answer

Shang

Question 53

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

Accepted Answer

Suffering can never be stopped

Question 54

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

Accepted Answer

The Enlightened One

Question 55

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

Accepted Answer

Raj

Question 56

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

Accepted Answer

Spice

Question 57

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

Accepted Answer

Caste

Question 58

A powerful, land-owning warrior in Japan.

Accepted Answer

Samurai

Question 59

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

Accepted Answer

Confucius

Question 60

A large farm.

Accepted Answer

Plantation

4th Quarter - Geography - Quiz 5 - 2023-2024

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4th Quarter - Geography - Quiz 5 - 2023-2024

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