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World Cultures Test
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Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. why were the British able to dominate India ?
Because it is a large land ares (not as big as a continent) and it has distinct
Aryan invaders - Muslim invaders - British
Israel
Superior technology - religious divisions - political divisions
2. What are Sepoy's ?
Hindus and Muslims
Indian soldiers serving under British command in India
Israel
Aryan invaders - Muslim invaders - British
3. What Middle East countries are friendly to the U.S ?
Famine - emphasis on cash crops - disruption of traditional Indian ways in life
Colonial control in India
Saudi Arabia - Oman - Yemen
Saudi Arabia - Egypt - Turkey
4. What countries were imperial powers in the Middle East ?
Palestinians rejected the plan to create both an Arab and Jewish homeland in present day Israel - Israel was victorious in all wars fought with Arab countries in the Middle East
Israel
Economic boycott - hunger strike - non- cooperation
England and France
5. Who contributed to the Indian Culture ?
Provided quick ways to make large sums of money - provided private citizens to invest - offered reduced risk for investor
Palestinians rejected the plan to create both an Arab and Jewish homeland in present day Israel - Israel was victorious in all wars fought with Arab countries in the Middle East
Aryan invaders - Muslim invaders - British
Pledge to create a homeland for Jews
6. Who contributed to the Indian Culture ?
Israel
Hierarchy of people in India
Colonial control in India
Aryan invaders - Muslim invaders - British
7. What was important about Joint-stock companies ?
Israel
Famine - emphasis on cash crops - disruption of traditional Indian ways in life
Provided quick ways to make large sums of money - provided private citizens to invest - offered reduced risk for investor
Democracy
8. What was important about Joint-stock companies ?
Hierarchy of people in India
Provided quick ways to make large sums of money - provided private citizens to invest - offered reduced risk for investor
India - Bangladesh - Pakistan - Bhutan - Nepal - Sir Lanka
He designed a march to the sea
9. How did Gandhi protest the Salt March ?
Deccan Plateau - Indus River - Ganges river- Eastern and Western Ghats
Lawyer - high caste Hindu
Saudi Arabia - Oman - Yemen
He designed a march to the sea
10. What areas make up South Asia ?
Provided quick ways to make large sums of money - provided private citizens to invest - offered reduced risk for investor
Between the Jews and the Arabs
Democracy
India - Bangladesh - Pakistan - Bhutan - Nepal - Sir Lanka
11. What is the Balfour Declaration ?
Deccan Plateau - Indus River - Ganges river- Eastern and Western Ghats
Saudi Arabia - Oman - Yemen
Pledge to create a homeland for Jews
Hindu radical
12. Who did Indian independence caused violence between ?
Colonial control in India
The British East India Company's control over India
Superior technology - religious divisions - political divisions
Hindus and Muslims
13. Why is South Asia considered a sub-content ?
England and France
Between the Jews and the Arabs
Because it is a large land ares (not as big as a continent) and it has distinct
Hindus and Muslims
14. When did India gain its independence ?
15. What is India's government considered to be today?
Democracy
Between the Jews and the Arabs
India - Bangladesh - Pakistan - Bhutan - Nepal - Sir Lanka
Israel
16. After the Sepoy rebellion what did the British establish ?
Palestinians rejected the plan to create both an Arab and Jewish homeland in present day Israel - Israel was victorious in all wars fought with Arab countries in the Middle East
Hindu radical
Colonial control in India
Conflict
17. What was described as economic imperialism ?
18. What is the caste system ?
Hierarchy of people in India
Indian soldiers serving under British command in India
Deccan Plateau - Indus River - Ganges river- Eastern and Western Ghats
Conflict
19. What are the geographic features ?
Lawyer - high caste Hindu
Because it is a large land ares (not as big as a continent) and it has distinct
Israel
That set is apart from the rest of Asia
20. What countries are found on the Arabian Peninsula ?
The British East India Company's control over India
Because it is a large land ares (not as big as a continent) and it has distinct
Israel
Saudi Arabia - Oman - Yemen
21. What is India's government considered to be today?
Because it is a large land ares (not as big as a continent) and it has distinct
He designed a march to the sea
Democracy
Provided quick ways to make large sums of money - provided private citizens to invest - offered reduced risk for investor
22. what country was created by United Nations in 1947 ?
Israel
Provided quick ways to make large sums of money - provided private citizens to invest - offered reduced risk for investor
He designed a march to the sea
Economic boycott - hunger strike - non- cooperation
23. What are the 3 negative impacts of Imperialism in India ?
Lawyer - high caste Hindu
Because it is a large land ares (not as big as a continent) and it has distinct
Superior technology - religious divisions - political divisions
Famine - emphasis on cash crops - disruption of traditional Indian ways in life
24. Who was Gandhi assassinated by ?
Conflict
Palestinians rejected the plan to create both an Arab and Jewish homeland in present day Israel - Israel was victorious in all wars fought with Arab countries in the Middle East
Hindu radical
India - Bangladesh - Pakistan - Bhutan - Nepal - Sir Lanka
25. Who was Gandhi ?
That set is apart from the rest of Asia
Lawyer - high caste Hindu
Hierarchy of people in India
Saudi Arabia - Egypt - Turkey
26. What was considered the homeland for the Jewish people in the world
Israel
Conflict
Colonial control in India
Hindus and Muslims
27. Who did Indian independence caused violence between ?
Hindus and Muslims
Aryan invaders - Muslim invaders - British
Saudi Arabia - Oman - Yemen
Palestinians rejected the plan to create both an Arab and Jewish homeland in present day Israel - Israel was victorious in all wars fought with Arab countries in the Middle East
28. What was the conflict between Jews and Arabs in Israel ?
Israel
Hindu radical
India - Bangladesh - Pakistan - Bhutan - Nepal - Sir Lanka
Palestinians rejected the plan to create both an Arab and Jewish homeland in present day Israel - Israel was victorious in all wars fought with Arab countries in the Middle East
29. What did imperialism bring to the Middle East ?
England and France
Provided quick ways to make large sums of money - provided private citizens to invest - offered reduced risk for investor
Conflict
That set is apart from the rest of Asia
30. What was described as economic imperialism ?
31. Who did the Sepoy's turn on ?
Provided quick ways to make large sums of money - provided private citizens to invest - offered reduced risk for investor
British
Democracy
Palestinians rejected the plan to create both an Arab and Jewish homeland in present day Israel - Israel was victorious in all wars fought with Arab countries in the Middle East
32. Why is South Asia considered a sub-content ?
Because it is a large land ares (not as big as a continent) and it has distinct
Colonial control in India
Democracy
The British East India Company's control over India
33. What countries were imperial powers in the Middle East ?
England and France
Israel
Palestinians rejected the plan to create both an Arab and Jewish homeland in present day Israel - Israel was victorious in all wars fought with Arab countries in the Middle East
Provided quick ways to make large sums of money - provided private citizens to invest - offered reduced risk for investor
34. What are the 3 negative impacts of Imperialism in India ?
1940's
Famine - emphasis on cash crops - disruption of traditional Indian ways in life
Saudi Arabia - Oman - Yemen
Palestinians rejected the plan to create both an Arab and Jewish homeland in present day Israel - Israel was victorious in all wars fought with Arab countries in the Middle East
35. What is the Balfour Declaration ?
Democracy
Pledge to create a homeland for Jews
Famine - emphasis on cash crops - disruption of traditional Indian ways in life
British
36. What did imperialism bring to the Middle East ?
Saudi Arabia - Egypt - Turkey
Conflict
Israel
Lawyer - high caste Hindu
37. When did India gain its independence ?
38. What is the caste system ?
Between the Jews and the Arabs
Conflict
Superior technology - religious divisions - political divisions
Hierarchy of people in India
39. What areas make up South Asia ?
India - Bangladesh - Pakistan - Bhutan - Nepal - Sir Lanka
England and France
Hierarchy of people in India
Deccan Plateau - Indus River - Ganges river- Eastern and Western Ghats
40. What were the areas of conflict ?
Palestinians rejected the plan to create both an Arab and Jewish homeland in present day Israel - Israel was victorious in all wars fought with Arab countries in the Middle East
Israel
Deccan Plateau - Indus River - Ganges river- Eastern and Western Ghats
Between the Jews and the Arabs
41. What Middle East countries are friendly to the U.S ?
India - Bangladesh - Pakistan - Bhutan - Nepal - Sir Lanka
Saudi Arabia - Egypt - Turkey
Provided quick ways to make large sums of money - provided private citizens to invest - offered reduced risk for investor
Democracy
42. what country was created by United Nations in 1947 ?
England and France
That set is apart from the rest of Asia
Saudi Arabia - Egypt - Turkey
Israel
43. How did Gandhi resisted British control over India ?
Economic boycott - hunger strike - non- cooperation
Palestinians rejected the plan to create both an Arab and Jewish homeland in present day Israel - Israel was victorious in all wars fought with Arab countries in the Middle East
The British East India Company's control over India
Israel
44. What are the geographic features of South Asia ?
Israel
1940's
He designed a march to the sea
Deccan Plateau - Indus River - Ganges river- Eastern and Western Ghats
45. Who was Gandhi ?
Superior technology - religious divisions - political divisions
Saudi Arabia - Egypt - Turkey
Lawyer - high caste Hindu
England and France
46. How did Gandhi protest the Salt March ?
He designed a march to the sea
Superior technology - religious divisions - political divisions
Indian soldiers serving under British command in India
Lawyer - high caste Hindu
47. What was the conflict between Jews and Arabs in Israel ?
1940's
Indian soldiers serving under British command in India
Palestinians rejected the plan to create both an Arab and Jewish homeland in present day Israel - Israel was victorious in all wars fought with Arab countries in the Middle East
1940's
48. What are Sepoy's ?
Pledge to create a homeland for Jews
Indian soldiers serving under British command in India
Saudi Arabia - Oman - Yemen
1940's
49. What were the areas of conflict ?
Hierarchy of people in India
Hindu radical
1940's
Between the Jews and the Arabs
50. What are the geographic features of South Asia ?
Deccan Plateau - Indus River - Ganges river- Eastern and Western Ghats
Democracy
Israel
1940's