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