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