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WW: EH
Who's Who Review: Eastern Hemisphere
Question | Answer |
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I am the spread of ideas and culture for one area of the world to another. What am I? | Cultural Diffusion |
I am a trade route. I reached from Asia to the Mediterranean basin. What am I? | Silk Road |
I am a trade route that crossed the Indian Ocean. What am I? | Maritime Route |
I am a trade route that crossed North Africa. What am I? | Trans-Saharan |
I am a trade route that linked with the Black Sea. What am I? | Northern European |
I am a trade route that took place on the seas and rivers of Europe. What am I? | Western European |
I am a trade route that took plance around the lands of Southeast Asia. What am I? | South China Sea |
I am a trade good that came from West Africa. What am I? | Gold |
I am a trade good that came from the lands around the Indian Ocean. What am I? | Spices |
I am a trade good that came from India, China, the Middle East, and later Europe. What am I? | Textiles |
I am a trade good that came from China and Persia. What am I? | Porcelain |
I am a trade good that came from the Baltic region. What am I? | Amber |
I am a trade good that came from China. What am I? | Paper |
I am a new crop that came from India. What am I? | Sugar |
We are new technologies that came from the Middle East. What are we? | Waterwheels and windmills |
I am a new technology that came from China. I am used to nagivate. What am I? | Compass |
I am a new technology that came from the Indian Ocean region. I am used on ships. What am I? | Lateen sail |
I am a religion. I spread from China to Korea and Japan. What am I? | Buddhism |
We are religions. We spread from India to Southeast Asia. What are we? | Hinduism and Buddhism |
I am a religion. I spread from Arabia to West Africa and Central and Souteast Asia. What am I? | Islam |
We are new technologies from China. We are used in the creation of books and money. What are we? | Printing and paper money |
I am a country. My culture was influenced by China. My name means "land of the rising sun." What am I? | Japan |
I am a chain of islands. What am I? | Archipelago |
I am a strong tropical storm. What am I? | Typhoons |
I am the name given to the area in Asia that are susceptible to earthquakes, volcanoes, and tsunamis. What am I? | Ring of Fire |
I am a language written with phonetic symbols for syllables. What am I? | Kana |
I am the author of the first novel, Tale of the Genji. Who am I? | Lady Murasaki-Shikibu |
We are clan gods. Who are we? | Kami |
I am a religion. I am unique to Japan and based on nature and ancestral worship. What am I? | Shinto |
I am a type of architecture associated with Buddhism. What am I? | Pagoda |
I am the first emperor of Japan. Who am I? | Emperor Jinmu |
I am the dynasty that ruled Honshu for 1000 years. Our rulers claimed to be descendants of the sun goddess. Who are we? | Yamato Clan |
I am a large wave. What am I? | Tsunami |
We were a noble family that ruled Japan. Who are we? | Fujiwara |
I am the sun goddess. Who am I? | Amaterasu |
I am the belief that spirits inhabit everything. What am I? | Animisim |
I am the enterance to a Shinto shrine. What am I? | Torii |
I am the figurehead of the Japanese government. I was worshipped as a god. Who am I? | Emperor |
I am a supreme military commander who controlled the military, finances, and law. Who am I? | Shogun |
I am a local lord who owned land and was served by samurai. Who am I? | Daimyo |
We are warriors who live by a code of behavior. Who are we? | Samurai |
I am a code of behavior followed by Samurai. My name means "way of the warrior" and I emphasize courage, reverence for the goods, fairness, and generosity. What am I? | Bushido |
We make up the majority of the population in Japan. We were laborers. Who are we? | Peasants |
I am an East African kingdom. I was located near the Ethiopian Highlands and the Nile River. I was a Christian kingdom. What am I? | Axum |
I am a farming technique. I involve cutting step-like ridges into the sides of mountains. What am I? | Terrace farming |
We are the West African kingdoms that developed near the Niger River and the Sahara Desert. Our economies were based ont he gold-salt trade on the Trans-Saharan trade route. What are we? | Ghana, Mali, and Songhai |
I am a West African Kingdom. Mansa Musa was our leader and I was an Islamic state. Timbuktu was an important center for trading and learning. What am I? | Mali |
I am a West African kingdom. My capital city was Gao and I was located along the Niger River. What am I? | Songhai |
I am a South African kingdom located near the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers. My capital city was Great Zimbabwe. What am I? | Zimbabwe |