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People that moved in the Columbian Exchange included:
Some Native Americans
The people of North Sentinel Island
European Colonists
Enslaved People
Some Native Americans, European Colonists, Enslaved People
What is not a major division of geography?
Stratigraphy
What are major aspects of physical geography?
Land, Water, Weather, climate
What are major aspects of human geography?
Culture, politics, race/ethnicity, population
True or false: all maps have some distortion?
True
Which of the following elements are not a decay product of uranium?\
Nitrogen
Thorium
Lead
Protactinium
Lead
Which is not a type of force in plate tectonics?
Blue Drag
Ridge Push
Mantle Drag
Slab Pull
Blue Drag
Which is not a type of boundary in plate tectonics?
Vertical
Divergent
Convergent
Transform
Vertical
What is the name of the most recent super continent?
Pangea
What of the following does not limit human pop growth?
Income
Political Affiliation
Government Policies
Food
Political Affiliation
When did the human population hit one billion people?
1830
Political pull factors in migration include include:
Stigmatization
Peace
Rule of Law
Stability
Peace, Rule of Law, Stability
Social barriers to migration include:
Cultural Legacy
Cultural Homogeneity
War
Violence
Cultural legacy, cultural homogeneity, violence
Pull factors during the Great Migration include:
Red Summer of 1919
Higher wages
Pullman Porters
Harlem Renaissance
Higher wages, Pullman Porters, Harlem Renaissance
The Demographic Transition Model shows how human population growth ____ at the beginning of industrialization, then _____ .
increases, slows down
The Bracero Program was intended to
provide legal migrant labor to the World War II effort
T or F: The replacement rate in post-industrial countries is 2.1.
True
T or F: The total fertility rate is defined as the average number of children a woman would have during her reproductive lifetime.
True
T or F: The human population is expected to begin shrinking by the end of the century.
True
Which of the following were the Olmecs NOT contemporaneous with?
Safavid Empire
The Aztecs were known for utilizing what kind of food production in their capital city?
Aquaculture
Incan Mit'a was a tax on
Labor
Cerro Potosí was the extraction sight of what resource under the Spanish Empire?
Silver
Which of the following is not a type of species dispersal?
Extensionism
The Great American Interchange was a _____ for terrestrial species, but a ______ for aquatic species
Corridor, Vicariance event
Smallpox typically killed between __ and __ percent of an indigenous population.
60, 95
T or F: The Mayan cultural survived the decentralization of the their early political system prior to European contact.
True
T or F: It took the Spanish Empire 40 years to take over the full extent of the Incan Empire.
True
T or F: Tectonic uplift caused the development of the Ismuth of Panama as well as the uplifting of the ancient sea bed that became the homeland of the Mayans.
True
T or F: The Great American Interchange allowed one of the largest migration of land species in the history of the planet.
True
What naval technology enabled Europeans to sail down the African coast?
Tacking
Europeans lost access to most goods from the Silk Road following what event?
The fall of Constantinople
Dutch Financial innovations included which of the following (select all that apply)?
Central banking
Insurance
Corporations legally being people
Limited liability
Central Banking, Insurance, Limited Liability
The Troubles in ____ Ireland (1968 - 1998) were a response to _____
Northern, Structural Inequality
T or F: The Coriolis Effect causes wind to deflect as you get closer to the poles.
True
T or F: The Thermohaline circulation makes London colder.
False
T or F: Europe had few trade goods beyond gold and silver that could be traded for goods coming to them along the Silk Road.
True
T or F: European resource extraction from their colonies was primarily in the form gold and silver.
False
Desertification of the Sahara region began:
11,000 years ago
Mansa Musa's Haj resulted in what occurring?
A crash in the value of gold
Christians in Ethiopia were part of what early branch of Christianity, before breaking off into the Tewahedo Orthodoxy?
Coptic Church
The Ethiopian Empire was primarily in conflict with what European empire up through World War II, where the Ethiopian's joined the allied powers?
Italian Empire
The primary trade goods from the Wagadou Empire were ___ and ___ .
Gold, Salt
The Mali Empire was primarily ____ and had a ____ political structure.
Islamic, decentralized
The development of ____ helps prevent the contraction ___ resulting in European empires beginning their ____ .
Quinine, malaria, Scramble for africa
T or F: The Songhai Empire began as a revolt against Mali authority.
True
T or F: Most languages in sub-Saharan Africa are from the Bantu linguistic group.
True
T or F: After losing control of the Red Sea in 646 CE, Aksum focused on expansion into the south.
True
TERM
A
DEFINITION
Kazakhstan
TERM
B
DEFINITION
Uzbekistan
TERM
C
DEFINITION
Turkmenistan
TERM
D
DEFINITION
Iran
TERM
E
DEFINITION
Afghanistan
TERM
F
DEFINITION
Tajikistan
TERM
G
DEFINITION
Kyrgyzstan
TERM
H
DEFINITION
Pakistan
TERM
I
DEFINITION
China
TERM
J
DEFINITION
India
The driving force in dessert geomorphology is
aeolian forces.
The most famous of the nomadic steppe peoples to control Central Asia were
the Mongol Empire.
The Eurasian Steppes are characterized by ___ conditions and terrain dominated by ___.
Arid, Grasslands
The Great Game, during the ___ , pitted the local peoples against each other in the attempts of the ____ to control the region.
Late colonial period, British and Russian Empires
T or F: The Aral sea has mostly disappeared due to how water in the region is being utilized.
True
T or F: The War of the Heavenly Horses, between the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom and China, is an example of how interconnected the area of Central Asia has been to the movement of people, goods, and ideas.
True
Which of the following religions did not originate in South Asia?
Hinduism
Islam
Buddhism
Sikhism
Islam
The Taj Mahal is an example of what kind of architecture?
Islamic
The British East India Trading Company focused on extracting what kind of resources from it's colonies in India?
Cash Crops
The largest cities in the Indus Valley Civilization had populations of
40-60 thousand people
The caste system originated during the
Vedic Period
The Mughal Empire was primarily ruled by elites belonging to what religion?
Islam
T or F: The Indus Valley Civilization is known for it's hydraulic engineering.
True
T or F: The Intertropical Convergence Zone drives the monsoon seasons.
True
Which city is in the Russian exclave on the Baltic Ocean?
Kaliningrad
The more densely populated Russian Plain and less densely populated Siberia are divided by what mountain range?
Urals
Which River in modern Russia was a critical route for Veringian traders and raiders that connected travelers from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Caspian Sea?
Volga
The Kieval Rus were led by a dynasty originating from what group?
Varangians
Which Country does not control part of the Altai mountain range?
India
The Han dynasty of China was contemporaneous with what European entity?
The Roman Empire
The system of unequal treaties imposed on China following the Second Opium War included which of the following:
Ceding land
All of these
Extraterritoriality
Reparations
All of these
The Chinese Civil War (1927-1949) was won by the ___ , led by ___ .
Communist Party, Mao Zedong
During his reign, Peter the Great over saw the establishment of the Russian Empire. He attempted to ____ Russia and saw his empire recognized as a ____ .
Europeanize, Great Power
The Kievan Rus society was centered on ____ . It was comprised of several small ____ until it was conquered by the ____ .
The Russian plain, principalities, Mongols
About what percent of global shipping traffic travels through the straight of Malacca?
25
Which of the following were not part of the rituals associated with the Chinese tributary system most South East Asian countries engaged in?
Kowtowing
Tribute and gifts
Investure
Trade wars
Trade Wars
Groups that resisted American occupation of the Philippines included all except:
Tagalog Republic
European colonists
Moro peoples
The Pulahan
European colonists
Before declonization, Vietnam was part of
French Indochina
Even during the ____ , when the mean sea level is at its lowest, the ____ delineates between the Sunda and Sahul landmasses.
ice ages, wallace line
Many of islands of South East Asia are produced from _____ along the rim of the Pacific tectonic plate.
volcanic activity
The Philippines were a Spanish colony from ___ to ___ .
1565, 1898
T or F: The great distance between South East Asia and the centers of Islam resulted divergent legal and theological traditions.
True
Austronesian ship technology included all of the following except
Astrolabes
Catamarans
Crab claw sails
Outrigger boats
Astrolabes
he Austronesian expansion began from the island of ____ around ____ .
Taiwan, 3000 BCE
What of the following were part of the Columbian Exchange?
Materials
Animals
Plants
People
Ideas
All the above
People that moved in the Columbian Exchange included:
Some Native Americans
The people of North Sentinel Island
European Colonists
Enslaved People
Some Native Americans, European Colonists, Enslaved People
Animals that were moved to the Americas during the Columbian Exchange included which of the following? Mark all that apply.
Horses
Pigs
Primates
Iguanas
Cows
Horses, Pigs, Cows
Invasive species include which of the following? Mark all that apply.
Kudzu
Horses
Fire Ants
Asian Carp
Mosquitoes
Zebra Mussels
Ferns
Kudzu, Fire Ants, Asian Carp, Zebra Mussels
T or F: One way to think of Colonialism is as imperialism+, where and empire settles people in a region for the purpose of controlling the land and extracting resources
True
Which of the following were responses to colonialism? Mark all that apply.
Religious orthodoxy
Communism
Nationalism and self determinism
Modernization and westernization
All the above
Which of the following were key features of the movements for Nationalism and self determination? Mark all that apply.
Territorial expansion
Regicide
The nation state
Race, ethnicity, and national identity
The nation state, Race/ethnicity/national identity
Many of the problems experienced by former colonies were outcomes caused by imperial policies in those areas, including which of the following? Mark all that apply.
Pan-Islamism
Tyranny of the map
Cultural genocide
Divide and rule strategy
Tyranny of the map, Cultural genocide, Divide and rule strategy