Final Exam Review Part 1

Front 1

______ was the young Venetian trader that traveled by caravan on the ______ with his father and uncle, arriving at the Mongol count in ______.

Back 1

Marco Polo; Silk Roads; 1275

Front 2

______ was the communist leader that gained support from China's farmers as he attempted to establish his own ______ government in China.

Back 2

Mao Dezong: communist

Front 3

Confucius taught that relationships are bases on ______.

Back 3

Rank

Front 4

Confucius was famous for his sayings and ______. These teachings are gathered in a book called the ______.

Back 4

Proverbs; Analects

Front 5

In 1979, the ______ was enacted in China as a way to limit the growth of the Chinese ______.

Back 5

One Child Policy; population

Front 6

In Buddhism freedom from suffering is possible by practicing the ______.

Back 6

Eightfold Path

Front 7

In Japan a shogun us another name for a ______.

Back 7

Military ruler

Front 8

In the 1800s, Japan and Europe both moved onto the Korean peninsula and adopted a dipomacy based on military force known as ______.

Back 8

Gunboat Diplomacy

Front 9

In the 1890s, ______ and Japan claimed large areas of China in which they had exclusive ______ rights. These areas of control are know as ______.

Back 9

Europe; trading; Spheres of Influence

Front 10

Japan is made up of a series of islands, or island chains known as ______, that were created through ______ and ______ activity over millions of years.

Back 10

Archipelago; tectonic; volcanic

Front 11

The ______ is the frequent earthquake and ______ zone that is home to an arc of islands east of China, and the meeting place of the Pacific, Philippine, and ______ tectonic plates.

Back 11

Ring of Fire; volcanic eruptions; Eurasion

Front 12

The _____, which is located in China, is ______ longest river.

Back 12

Chang Jiang; Asia's

Front 13

The ______ is located in southern Mongolia and north-central China and covers 500,000 square miles of land.

Back 13

Gobi Desert

Front 14

The ______ is East Asia's highest plateau at about 15,000 feet.

Back 14

Plateau of Tibet

Front 15

The Buddhist aim to end world suffering is known as ______.

Back 15

Nirvana

Front 16

The form of Japanese poetry that consists of 3 lined in 17 syllable combinations is known as a ______.

Back 16

Haiku

Front 17

Two atomic bombs were detonated on the Japanese cities of ______ and ______ in August of 1945.

Back 17

Heroshima; Nagasaki

Front 18

______ is the fetile soil which is blown by the winds from deserts to the west and north and deposited by the Yellow River.

Back 18

Loess

Front 19

Animal bones and tortoise shells on which priests had scratched questions for the gods are known as ______.

Back 19

Oracle bones

Front 20

A just ruler that has divine approval to lead is said to have the ______.

Back 20

Mandate of Heaven

Front 21

The ______ is the pattern of rise, decline, and replacement of dynasties.

Back 21

Dynastic Cycle

Front 22

______ is a political system in which nobels, or lords, are granted the use of lands that legally belong to the king.

Back 22

Feudalism

Front 23

______ is the largest island country in Southeast Asia.

Back 23

Indonesia

Front 24

______ is the most densely populated nation in mainland Southeast Asia.

Back 24

Vietnam

Front 25

Angkor Wat was designed to resemble the home of the ______ gods.

Back 25

Hindu

Front 26

In Southeast Asia many cities, known as ______ have emerged. These cities serve as the country's ______ economic center, and its ______.

Back 26

Primate cities; (major) port; capital

Front 27

Mainland Southeast Asia is home to a number of rivers, and one of these rivers, the ______ forms the border between Thailand and Laos.

Back 27

Mekong River

Front 28

Many people in Southeast Asia are moving to cities in hopes of finding better ______, leaving ______ conflict, and finding better ______ opportunities.

Back 28

Education; political; job

Front 29

The ______ in Southeast Asia is best known for its architecture, specifically Angkor Wat, an ______ yesr old temple in the region.

Back 29

Khmer; 800

Front 30

The collusion of the Eurasian, ______ and Indo-Australian tectonic plates millions of years ago created upheavals which formed ______ mountain ranges and ______ known as ______.

Back 30

Philippine; parallel; plateaus; cordilleras

Front 31

The majority of people in the Philippines practice ______.

Back 31

Christianity

Front 32

The world's largest Islamic country is ______.

Back 32

Indonesia

Front 33

While nearly all the world's religions are practiced in Southeast Asia the most predominant is ______.

Back 33

Buddhism

Front 34

______ was the reform policy of economic restructuring introduced in the Soviet Union in the 1980s that helped lead to the collapse of the ______.

Back 34

Perestroika; Soviet Union

Front 35

______ was the reform policy that called for greater ______ openness in the Soviet Union and was introduced in the country in the 1980s.

Back 35

Glasnost; political

Front 36

During the Soviet era the government limited individual artistic expression as the government believed it was the artist's job to glorify the ______ achievements and thus what was created was a type of art known as ______.

Back 36

Government's; socialist realism

Front 37

In 1547, Ivan's great grandson Ivan IV, became Russia's first crowned czar, which means ______.

Back 37

Supreme ruler

Front 38

In 1891, under Czar Alexander III, Russia expanded into ______ and also saw the construction of the ______ a public works project which connected Moscow to Vladivostok and helped open the Russia interior to settlement.

Back 38

Siberia; Trans-Siberian Railroad

Front 39

In 1917, ______, led by ______ seized control of the Russian government.

Back 39

Bolsheviks; Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Front 40

**In 1917, World War 1 brought ______ and soldiers into the streets demanding "bread and freedom." These events forced ______ to abdicate his throne as well as led to his death, and the death of his family, while also signaling the start of ______ Russia.

Back 40

Workers; Czar Nicholas (III); communist (maybe Soviet)

Front 41

In 1949, most nations in Eastern Europe had become nations that were controlled by the Soviet Union; these nations were referred to as ______.

Back 41

Satellite states

Front 42

In 1985, ______, a reform minded official, assumed power in the Soviet Union.

Back 42

Mikhail Gorbachev

Front 43

In the 800s C.E. ______ warriors settled among the Slavs of Russia and in response Slav communities were organized into city-states known as ______.

Back 43

Scandinavian; Keirvan Rus

Front 44

In the Soviet Union the government discouraged ______ practices and promoted a belief that there is no god, a belief known as ______.

Back 44

Religious; atheism

Front 45

Jews have long been persecuted in Russia as in Russia's past they were often targets of organized ______, massacres, and general anti-Jewish riots which were known as ______.

Back 45

Persecution; pograms

Front 46

The ______ believed in communism, a philosophy that was largely based on the works of the German philosopher ______.

Back 46

Bolsheviks; Karl Marx

Front 47

**The ______ mountains form the boundary between European Russia and Asian Russia and average a height of ______ feet while also being rich in iron and ______ fuels.

Back 47

Ural; 2,700 (or 2,000); mineral

Front 48

The policy withing Russia, known as ______ encouraged people to speak Russian and follow Eastern Orthodox Christianity.

Back 48

Russification