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What five regions make up the Realm?
India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Mountainous North, Southern Islands
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Monsoons:
Source of life, seasonal reversal of winds, essential for rice production. If it weren't for monsoons Burma and Myanmar wouldn't have the food they have, but lots of disease and ruined infrastructure and land from flash floods
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What brought India their freedom? (Modern India 1947-present day)
The British not being able to afford their posessions anymore and Ghandi
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Most of Islam is located where?
Pakistan
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Where is most of Hinduism located?
India
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Where is Sikhism located?
Northern India (clash w/Muslims in Pakistan)
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Where is Buddhism based (located)?
Sri Lanka
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Define Hindu:
Pantheon of gods representing natural forces
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In Hinduism, what are the 4 goals of life?
Dharma, Artha, Kama, Moksha
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Define dharma:
pursure human righteousness
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Define Artha:
accumulation of worldly success
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Define Kama:
spiritual love
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Define Moksha:
release from empty pleasures and suffering
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Three main gods of Hinduism?
Brahma (creator), Vishnu (preserver), and Shiva (destroyer)
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Vishnu:
forgiveness and love; avatars, Buddha, Christ, Muhammad
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Samsara:
reincarnations; transmigration of the soul
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Karma is important to which religion?
Hinduism
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Hindu caste system:
Brahmins (priests), Kshatriyas (politicians, warriors), Vaishyas (merchants, doctors, lawyers, etc.)
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What religion is based on self-knowledge and the elimination of worldy desires?
Buddhism
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Dharma:
realize the Truth
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Nirvana: (& how can you reach it?)
Enlightenment; through the Middle Path
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What are the 4 Noble Truths of Buddhism?
Life, selfishness is cause of suffering, these can be ended, answer is the 8-fold path (the way out)
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Eightfold Path to the Middle Way:
Right: understanding, intent, speech, conduct, livelihood, effort, awareness, meditation
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What caused the removal/decline of Buddhism?
The arrival of Islam in 8th century AD
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What is the economic capital of India?
Mumbai (Bombay)
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Current capital of India?
New Delhi
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What is the capital of Pakistan?
Islamabad
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Bangladesh is prone to what?
Natural disasters: cyclones, flooding, droughts
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Country with a high population density and one of the poorest countries?
Bangladesh
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What is the capital of Nepal?
Kathmandu
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What is the capital of Bhutan?
Thimphu
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What is the capital of Vietnam?
Hanoi
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When did the US withdraw from the Vietnam War?
1973
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Who won the Vietnam war and in what year?
North in 1975
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Vietnam invaded which country and in what year?
Cambodia 1979
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What were the Killing Fields?
Khmer Rouge empty the cities and forced everyone to the fields in Cambodia
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What did Khmer Rouge do?
Destroyed the culture of Cambodia, families, and social distinction until Vietnam invaded
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Where is the largest Muslim population?
Indonesia
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What is the capital of Indonesia?
Jakarta
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Largest recorded explosion?
Krakatua (1883) in Indonesia
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Capital of philippines?
Manila (on Luzon island)
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Language of the Aryans?
Sanskrit
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Aryans belief system? What did it turn into?
Vedism; Hinduism
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Hinduism's caste system:
type of social class system; if you were in the lowest caste it was because you deserved it, couldn't advance, and were at the mercy of those higher than you
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What agriculture is Sri Lanka known for?
Tea, rubber, and coconuts
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Who occupies southern Sri Lanka?
Aryans and Buddhists
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Who occupies northern Sri Lanka?
Tamil Tigers, a separatists terrorist group
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Where is the Himalayan Region located?
Nepal
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What is the Maldives known for?
Tourism, highest GNP, Archipelago in the Indian Ocean
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Which mountainous country is wedged between China and India?
Bhutan
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in 2008 Bhutan went from an absolute monarchy to what?
Multi-party democracy
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State religion of Bhutan?
Buddhism
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Capital of Maldives?
Maale
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Ho Chi Minh is known a what by the population?
Saigon
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French colonists separated Vietnam into these three units:
Tonkin (contains capital), Cochin China (contains Saigon), Annam
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Who invated Vietnam in 1940?
Japan
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Where is the Mekong River located?
N to S, through five of the realm's countries border, ends at delta in southernmost Vietnam
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What does the Mekong river support?
Rice farmers, fisherman, transportation, and electricity
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China wants to build dams on Mekong river, what negative impacts will this have?
Cause salt (water) to get in rice paddies, hurting exports
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Former French Indochina is what country today?
Cambodia
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Angkor is the capital of?
The Khmer Empire (Hindu cosmology)
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Who was responsible for destroying Cambodias culture? How did he die?
Pol Pot (led Khmer Empire); suicide
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What is Cambodia's temple/world's largest religious monument called? dedicated to?
Angkor Wat; Vishnu
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Domino Theory?
- Theory that destabilizing one country would destabilize the neighboring country
- Believed to happen in vietnam
- American troops destabalizing vietnam would create domino effect and destabalize and collapse order in the surrounding countries such as cambodia and Laos
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Capital of Malaysia?
Kuala Lumpur
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Who discovered Philippines?
Magellan
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Who were the Huks?
the military arm of the Communist party to fight Japanese in WWII
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Capital of Thailand?
Bangkok
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Where is known for human trafficking, sex and drug trade, tourism, bad tsunami?
Thailand
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Which country was formely Siam and was never colonized?
Thailand
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Which country has rich Buddhist tradition?
Thailand
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Which religion has many gods, idols, books, burn their dead, and have a caste system?
Hinduism
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Which religion is monotheistic, has no idols, has one sacred book, bury their dead, social equality, and is intolerant of other religions?
Islam
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Pakistan-Indian conflict over Kashmir:
- Independence & Partition
- 1947
- – Pakistan Invades
- 1965
- – Indian/Pak. War
- 1971
- – India takes advantage of Pakistani civil war
- Relative calm since 2002
- Terrorist attacks in India in 2008
- Pakistan/India Border
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