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43 Cards in this Set
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What is a dialect?
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A regional language variation among people in a country.
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What does PLO stand for?
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Palestine Liberatio Organization
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What is a wadi?
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A temporary river in the desert which appears during occasional downpours.
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Who is the Dalai Lama?
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The title of the chief priest of Lamaism who ruled Tibet.
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The Bengalis are is which country?
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Bangladesh.
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The Pashtuns are in which country?
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Afghanistan
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The Sinhalese are in which country?
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Sri Lanka
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The Han are in which country?
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Taiwan
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The Punjabis are in which country?
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Pakistan
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What is Masada?
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Legendary fortress built by King Herod.
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What is Petra?
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Ancient city in Jordan.
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What is Rub' Al-Khali?
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The Empty quarter; a sea of sand covering over 250,000 square miles in the Arabian Peninsula
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Where is the Anatolian Plateau
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A dry, treeless region which occupies the peninsula of Asia Minor.
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What is Transcaucasia?
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the region named for the mighty Caucasus Mountains that separate Asia and Europe.
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What is Istanbul?
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Turkey's largest city.
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What is the Chang Jiang?
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Important river in China formerly known as the Yangtze.
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What is Chung-Kuo?
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Phrase that means "The Middle Country"; ancient name for China
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What is Mekong?
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the longest river in Southeast Asia.
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What is Muang Thai?
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Phrase that means "Land of the Free"; Thailand's official title.
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What was French Indonesia?
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A historical term for Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia before WWII.
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What is the Dutch East Indies?
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A name for Indonesia under the Dutch East India Company.
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What is the world's third largest island?
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Borneo; located in Southeast Asia.
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Why is India called a subcontinent?
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India's geography is distinctly separated from the rest of the continent.
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What are the three major land areas of India?
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Himalayan mountain system, northern plains, Deccan plateau.
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Where did Indian civilization begin?
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Indus Valley
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Where did the Chinese civilization begin?
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Along the Huang He River
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Who is remembered as the Father of Modern Missions?
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William Carey
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What modern empire ruled Central Asia for most of the 20th century?
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Soviet Union
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Which is the largest republic in Central Asia?
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Kazakhstan
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What empire controlled most of Southern Asia a the turn of the 20th century?
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British Empire
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Who colonized Hong Kong and Singapore?
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British
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Who colonized Macao?
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Portuguese
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Where is the Brahmaputra river?
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India
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What divides North and South Korea?
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38th parallel
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What is Japan's largest island?
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Honshu
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Arabs and Jews are descendants of which biblical patriarch?
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Abraham
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What is the lowest point on land?
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Dead Sea
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When did Israel become a modern state?
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1948
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Where are the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers?
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Central Asia
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Name the canal that separates Asia and Africa
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Suez Canal
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How did General Chian Kai-shek and the Nationalist Chinese who fled China after the Communist revolution help Taiwan?
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They kept the Communists out of Taiwan.
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What is the world's longest fortification?
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Great Wall in China
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Why is the Middle East called the Crossroads of the Ancient World?
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It is called the Crossroads of the Ancient World because of its central location at the intersection of the overland trade routes which connected Europe, Asia, and Africa.
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