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115 Cards in this Set
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India experiences a lot of what type of natural disaster?
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Monsoons
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What river is sacred to the Hindus?
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Ganges
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What is the name of the cultural hearth in South Asia?
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Indus River Valley
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people from S. Asia that spread to Europe are known as?
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Aryans
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what are the major tenets of Hinduism?
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Reincarnation, Karma, Dharma
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Where did Buddhism start?
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India
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Where is the only strong Buddhist society in S. Asia?
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Sri Lanka
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What leader succeeded in achieving independence for India?
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Gandi
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Bangladesh was once known as?
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East Pakistan
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Sri Lanka was once known as what?
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Ceylon
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What is the biggest city in Pakistan?
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Karachi
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what is the Sikh religion?
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Mixture of Hindu and Muslim
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What is the capitol of India?
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Delhi
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Mumbai was once known as what?
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Bombay
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What is the capitol of Nepal?
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Kathmandu
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Where can Hindu's be found in Sri Lanka?
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To the North
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What area is part of India but runs independently?
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Sikkim
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Where can you find a cultural hearth in China?
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Yellow river
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Most of Chinas population lives where?
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In the Eastern portion
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The Jakota triangle consists of what?
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Japan, Korea, Taiwan
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What desert can be found in West China?
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Gobi Desert
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What is the highest mountain in the world and where is it located?
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Mt. Everest, border of Nepal and Tibet
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What are the 3 major rivers in Eastern China?
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Yangtze, Pearl and Yellow
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The aborigines of Japan are called what?
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Ainu
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On what Island can you find the Anui people?
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Hokkaido
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Japan is made up of what 4 Islands?
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Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu
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Japan was isolated until when?
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1900
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the cease-fire line is located between what countries?
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North and South Korea
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What is the capitol of Japan?
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Tokyo
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What is the capitol of S. Korea?
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Seoul
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what area of S. East Asia did America own for about 50 years?
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The Phillipeans
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Before US ownership, who owned the Pillipeans?
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Spain
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In Hinduism the 'high levels' and 'low levels' of the caste system are known as what?
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High= Brahman Low=untouchables
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When did the Phillepeans gain their independence?
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1946
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What is Loess and where can it be found?
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Wind blown soil. In the Gobi desert
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The Dutch called Indonesia what?
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Spice Islands
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Indonesia is made up of how many Islands?
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17,000
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what is the most populated island in Indonesia?
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Java
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What religion can be found on the Island of Bali?
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Hinduism
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What realm is proposed to be the worlds most populous realm in 2011?
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S. Asia
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What is the world's largest democracy?
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India
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What area of S. Asia remains a dangerous source of friction between India and Pakistan?
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Kashmir
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Pakistan is manly what religion?
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Islamic
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What river is the lifeline of Pakistan?
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Indus River
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In what year did East and West Pakistan break-up?
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1971
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North S. Asia is mostly what type of terrain?
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Mountains.
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What is the official religion of the Republic of Maldives?
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Islam
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What is the official language and what is the Lingua franca of Pakistan?
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Urdu, official
English, Lingua Franca |
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The highland gateway from Pakistan to Afghanistan is called the what?
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Khyber Pass
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The Punjab region can be found where?
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Between the border of India and Pakistan
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What is the name of the desert in Pakistan?
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Baluchistan
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India is mostly what type of land terrain?
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Plateau
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The (what) of India tilts to the East so that its highest areas are in the west and the major rivers flow into the what?
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Deccan. Bay of Bengal
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Who headed the first empire in S. Asia?
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Asoka
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What six political entities make up East Asia?
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China, Japan, S and N Korea, Mongolia, and Taiwan
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Taiwans government calls the state the
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Republic of China
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Countries that face the Pacific and are advancing economically are said to be in the what?
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Pacific Rim
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What river sources form China and borders five Southeast Asian countries?
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Mekong River
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What is the name of the Island in Indonesia that is Hindu
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Bali
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What is the capital of Pakistan?
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Islamabad
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How many state does India have?
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28
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What environmental issue does Bangladesh suffer from?
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Flooding
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The worlds most highly populated realm is
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East Asia
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When the Chinese use their influence to take over a country it is called?
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Sinicization
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What year did the fight between Chiang and Mao end?
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1930
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When the fight between chiang and mao ended who got what?
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Chiang took Taiwan and Mao took the mainland
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Relative location
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the regional position or situation of a place relative to the position of other places
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What is the name of the active volcano in the Phillipeans?
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Mount Pinatubo
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Cambodia is an example of what type of political boundary?
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Compact state
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Thailand or Myanmar are examples of what type of political boundary?
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Protruded state
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When a country has a piece of land that sticks out of it it is known to have what type of boundary?
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Protruded
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Vietnam is an example of what type of political boundary?
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Elongated
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When a countries length is at least six times its width it is known to have what type of boundary?
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Elongated
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Malaysia, Indonesia and Philippines are known to have what type of political boundary?
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Fragmented
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When a country consists of two or more territorial units separated by foreign territory or water it is known to have what type of political boundary
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Fragmented
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Lesotho, in Africa, is an example of what type of political boundary?
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Perforated
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When a country completly surrounds the territory of other states, so that they have a "hole" in them, is known as what type of political boundary?
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Perforated
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Antecedent Boundary
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Boundaries that were defined and developed before the present day human landscape developed
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the boundary between Malaysia and Indonesia is what type of boundary?
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Antecendent
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subsequent boundaries
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Evolved as the cultural landscape of an area took shape, the result of long process of adjustment and modifications
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The boundary between China and Vietnam is what type of boundary?
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Subsequent
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Superimposed boundary
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Boundaries drawn forcibly across a unified or at least homogeneous cultural landscape.
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The boundary between Indonesia and Papua New Guinea is an example of what type of Boundary?
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Superimposed
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Relict Boundary
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A border that has ceased to function buts whose imprints are still evident in the cultural landscape
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The border between N. and S. Vietnam is an example of what type of boundary?
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Relict boundary
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Territorial morphology refers to a states what?
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Political boundaries.
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What is the capital of Thailand
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Bangkok
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What is the capitol of China and what was it once called?
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Beijing, Peking
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What is the capital of the philippines?
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Manila
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What is the capitol of Vietnam
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Hanoi
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Ho Chi Minh City was formally known as what
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Saigon
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Ho Chi Minh City is centered on the banks of what river?
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Saigon River
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What is the biggest city in S. East Asia?
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Manila, Philippines
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What is the capital of Mongolia?
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Ulaanbaatar
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The French divided Vietnam into what 3 units?
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Tonkin, Cochin China, annam
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What ancient city of Cambodia did the french take over when they had Indochina?
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Angkor Wat
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The ganges river stretches from where to where
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The himalayas to the Bay Bengal
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Is Nepal a landlocked country?
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Yes
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When was Korea split into North and South?
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After the Korean war in 1950's
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What is the capital of Singapore?
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the city of Singapore
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When did Singapore secede from Malaysian Federation?
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1965
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What is the oil rich country is S.East Asia that has a sultan?
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Brunei
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Brunei is a seperate entity located on?
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Malaysia
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What S.East Asian country was never controlled by European powers?
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Thailand
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Who has the worlds' deadliest mining industry?
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China
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Under Chinese rule, what is Tibet now called?
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Xizang
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Who was chinas most influential philosopher and teacher?
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Confucius
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What was Chinas last imperial regime?
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Manchu Dynasty
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What drug in the 1840's began to destroy Chinese culture?
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Opium
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Centrifugal
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Forces that tend to divide a country
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Centripetal
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Forces that bring a country together
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Who owns part of New Guinea
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Indonesia
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Indonesia ranks what in the world populations?
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4th
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Myanmar was once known as
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Burma
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The Pearl River is an estuary of what river?
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The Xi Jiang
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