Central Asia Video Quiz- Ch 10

Central Asia is one of the most ______ regions in the world.

• powerful

• populated

• diverse

• all of the above

Central Asia experienced centuries of?

• peace

• power struggles

• settled agriculture

• Christianity

Historically many of the people in Central Asia were pastoral nomads.

• true

• false

International relations or geopolitics was important in Central Asia because?

• Of the meeting between East and West

• It was the most powerful region

• It was home to the Greek and Roman empires

• Of the Industrial Revolution

The old Silk Road went through Central Asia and connected?

• China, India, and the Americas

• Japan, England, and South Africa

• East Asia, Western Europe, and South America

• China, India, and the Horn of Africa

This empire took over Central Asia?

• Greek

• Persian

• Roman

• Incan

The Persian Empire, now modern day ____, helped to usher in a Golden Age of _____

• Iraq, Christianity

• Iran, Judaism

• Iraq, Hinduism

• Iran, Islam

Kazakhstan means

• home of the Kazakhs

• land of the Stans

• land of the Kazakhs

• home of the Uzbeks

Kazhaks are a(n)

• religion

• ethnic group

• war clan

• nomadic group

Part of Islam's golden age was a power competition (think geopolitics) between ethnic groups and _______.

• Muslims

• Caliphates

• other ethnic groups

• Russia