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Global Studies YHS
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| When the first humans began to stop nomadic herding and use settled farming this was called the... | Neolithic Revolution |
| Why did the first civilization develop on river valleys? | Fertile land, trade |
| The Ghat Mountains, Deccan Plateau, and Himalayan Mountains impacted India in what way? | Create cultural diversity |
| How did the Maurya Empire under Asoka unite India? | Religious tolerance: Buddhism |
| Polytheism and the Vedas are part of what belief system? | Hinduism |
| Ending selfish desire and the eightfold path are part of what religion? | Buddhism |
| Which empire introduced Islam to India | Mughals |
| What system did the British use to profit from imperialism? | Mercantilism |
| How did the British take over India? | Divide and Conquer |
| What was one event that led to Indian nationalism | Sepoy Rebellion, Amristar Massacre |
| What strategy did Gandhi use to unite India? | Ahisma, civil disobedience, Homespun Movement, Salt March |
| Explain the Indian policy of non-alignment during the cold war. | Neutral |
| How have differences among religious/ethnic groups cased problems in India? | Sikhs v. Hindus, Tigers v. Buddhists, India v. Pakistan |
| Explain the problem of nuclear proliferation in South Asia. | India and Pakistan are in conflict and both have nukes. |
| Explain the importance of Kashmir to South Asia and the world. | Land that causes India/Pakistan conflict |
| How did the green revolution impact India? | Overpopulation |
| How has Indian society been affected by urbanization? | Weakens caste system/tradition |
| Why did China call itself the "Middle Kingdom" | Geographic isolation |
| What was the key to the dynastic cycle? | Claiming the mandate of heaven |
| Explain one major accomplishment of any Chinese dynasty? | Great Wall, Grand Canal, Voyages of Zheng He, Silk Road |
| Daoism is based on: | Nature |
| Legalism is based on: | Laws |
| Confucianism is based on: | Fillial Piety, education, 5 relationships |
| China was divided into the spheres of influence after what event? | Opium War |
| Name one way China resisted foreign imperialism. | Boxer Rebellion and Taiping Rebellion |
| The first president of China was: | Sun Yixian |
| The Nationalist leader of China that fought Mao Zedong was: | Jiang Jieshi |
| The event that made Mao a hero was: | Long March |
| One reason Mao prevailed in the Chinese civil war was: | Peasant and women support, nationalist corruption |
| Mao made the Chinese make steel communes throughout the nation. This was called: | The Great Leap Forward |
| The Great Leap Forward was an example of what kind of economic system? | Command Economy |
| Mao attempted to get back into power by using Red Guards and the Little Red Book: | Cultural Revolution |
| When Deng Xiaoping changed the economy of China from Command to Capitalist it was called... | Four Modernizations |
| The situation in Tibet and Tiananmen Square in 1989 was an example of... | Human Right Violations |
| What is the problem between Taiwan and China? | Government: Democracy vs Communtist |
| Explain how geography has influenced Japan | Homogenous culture, Shinto, zen buddhism, no natural resources |
| Feudalism is characterized by: | Centralized government, no social mobility, constant fighting over land |
| How did the Tokugawa Shogunate affect Japanese history? | Isolation |
| Who ended Japanese isolation? | Matthew Perry, Treaty of Kanagawa |
| How did the Meiji Restoration affect Japan? | Modernized and Westernized |
| Explain the reasons for Japanese aggression before/during WWII | Seeking natural resources |
| How did Japan lose WWII? | Island Hopping, Atomic Bomb |
| How did the US influence Japan following WWII? | Demilitarization, Pacifism, Democracy |
| Explain the Asian Tigers | Southeast Asian nations export economies |
| Explain Ho Chi Minh's actions as a nationalist and a communist | Wanted to unite Vietnam, needed Communist allies |
| Explain the actions of Pol Pot | Cambodia, Khmer Rouge committed genocide, Angkor Wat |
| One similarity between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam is: | Monotheism, Abraham, Jerusalem |
| Contrast the Nile river and Mesopotamian civilizations | Egypt-Pyramids, Hieroglyphics, Polytheistic, Pharoh Sumerian civilization-Ziggurats, Cuneiform, Polytheistic, King Similar |
| Explain the achievements of the Islamic empires | Math, Science, Controls trade |
| Explain the differences between Sunni and Shiites | Sunni- believe that anyone can rule Shiite- believe that only blood descendants of Muhammed can rule |
| Explain the achievements of the Ottoman empire | Janissaries, Millets, Istanbul |
| What were the goals of zionism and how did it develop? | Jewish nationalism, Diaspora (scattering of people) |
| What were the goals of pan-arabism and how did it develop? | Arab nationalism, European imperialism, collapse of Ottoman empire |
| Compare Attaturk, Nasser, and Arafat | Nationalists |
| Why did the Arab-Israeli conflict begin? | Palestine, Religious differences |
| What was a result of the 1967 Six Day War? | Israel won, occupied Arab territory |
| Why did terrorism develop in the Middle East? | PLO, bad governments, economies, and Islamic fundamentalism |
| Explain the attempts to end (peace agreements) the Arab-Israeli crisis. | Camp David Accords (Egypt- Sadat; Israel- Begin) Oslo Accords (Egypt- Arafat; Israel- Rabin) |
| Explain the causes of the Iranian Revolution. | US influence, Shah modernizing and westernizing |
| Explain the effects of the Iranian Revolution. | Ayatollah took over, developed Islamic fundamentalist theocracy, Women lost rights, hostage crisis. |
| Explain the causes of the Persian Gulf War 1991. | Saddam wanted oil |
| Explain the causes of the US invasion of Iraq 2003 | WMD, terrorism? Spread democracy? |
| Why did the US invade Afghanistan in 2001? | 9/11, Taliban, Al Qaeda-Osama Bin Laden |
| Policy of mass murder of a particular group | Genocide |
| An economic system in which the government makes all economic decisions. | Command |
| A movement to create a Jewish homeland | Zionism |
| The policy of racial segregation and legal discrimination against non-whites in South Africa | Apartheid |
| A foreign policy during the Cold War in which developing nations did not take sides with either the US or the USSR (Inda for example) | Non-Alignment |
| Domination by one country over another country or region | Imperialism |
| Economic system in which nations develop a favorable balance of trade by exporting more than importing | Trade surplus |
| Belief in one god | Monotheism |
| Devotion to your nation, especially its independence | Nationalism |
| A refusal to obey unjust laws | Civil Disobedience |
| The ability of a nation to choose its own type of government | Self-Determination |
| Chinese leader, communist, Tiananmen Square, market economy | Deng Xiaoping |
| Iranian leader, ousted in 1979, pro-western | Shah |
| Cambodian leader, Khmer Rouge, genocide | Pol Pot |
| Chinese leader, 1949, communist, Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution | Mao Zedong |
| Indian, nationalist, civil disobedience, Salt March, Homespun Movement | Gandhi |
| Vietnamese, nationalist, communist | Ho Chi Minh |
| Chinese, social order, fillial piety, education | Confucianism |
| South Africa, Mandela, segregation, ends in 1990 | Apartheid |
| Permanent settlements, farming, domestication of animals | Neolithic Revolution |
| Mecca, Five Pillars, Middle East | Islam |
| Middle Passage, triangular trade, 1500s-1700s | Slavery |
| Hindu soldiers, put down by British, animal grease on guns, war of independence | Sepoy Rebellion |
| Scramble for Africa, 1884, disregard for natives, European colonies | Berlin Conference |
| Agreement, Egypt recognized Israel, Sadat, Begin | Camp David Accords |
| Conflict, Hindu v Muslim, Kashmir, nuclear proliferation | Indian/Pakistan conflict |
| Problem in South Asia and Africa, assassinations of leaders, weak government | Political Instability |
| Command economy to Capitalism, Deng Xiaoping | Four Modernizations |
| War, 38th parallel, North invaded South, ended in a stalemate | Korean War |
| Iranian leader, 1979, established an Islamic Fundamentalist state | Ayatollah: Iranian Revolution |
| Organization, Palestinian, terrorism | PLO |
| End selfish desire, eightfold path, nirvana | Buddhism |
| Brahma, Vedas, Caste system | Hinduism |
| Government that creates social equality | Democracy |
| Communists, Cambodia, Genocide | Khmer Rouge |
| Oil cartel, controls oil supply | OPEC |
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