Asia Unit Test Review

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• -an unbalanced ratio of boys to girls

• A large and wealthy city that was the imperial capital of the Byzantine empire and later the Ottoman empire, now known as Istanbul

• Southwest Asia

• the most populated city in the world

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• An ancient trade route between China and the Mediterranean Sea.

• All began in the Southwest Asia

• -controversial policy with regard to human rights

• Central Asia

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• Belief in only one god (monotheism)

• the removal of salt from seawater to make it usable for drinking and farming

• A dam built over the Yangtze river in China. It is the world's biggest dam.

• South Asia

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• A chain of islands

• Most populated country in the world

• Launched in response to the September 11th, 2001 attacks, this war sought to capture Osama bin Laden and remove the Taliban as leaders of the country. Ended in August, 2021.

• Southeast Asia

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• Muslim minority group in China that live close to the borders with Afghanistan and Pakistan. This group is the target of persecution and other human rights abuses.

• A geographical area of fertile land in the Middle East stretching in a broad semicircle including the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.

• Movement of people from rural areas to cities

• East Asia

Constantinople

• A superhighway that connects four major cities in India; part of a planned infrastructure initiative for India.
• A chain of islands
• A large and wealthy city that was the imperial capital of the Byzantine empire and later the Ottoman empire, now known as Istanbul
• A Jewish state on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean, both in antiquity and again founded in 1948 after the atrocities of the holocaust.

Arabian Peninsula

• A Jewish state on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean, both in antiquity and again founded in 1948 after the atrocities of the holocaust.
• China claims the international waterway as its territory.
• largest peninsula in the world; mostly taken up by the country of Saudi Arabia; Surrounded by the Red Sea, Persian Gulf, and the Arabian Sea.
• -controversial policy with regard to human rights

Fertile Crescent/Mesopotamia

• -controversial policy with regard to human rights
• underground rock formations that store water
• Movement of people from rural areas to cities
• A geographical area of fertile land in the Middle East stretching in a broad semicircle including the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.

oil

• Movement of people from rural areas to cities
• -an unbalanced ratio of boys to girls
• A geographical area of fertile land in the Middle East stretching in a broad semicircle including the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
• Natural resource that transformed the middle east into a wealthy, powerful region.

War in Afghanistan

• -large, aging population of those born before 1979
• Launched in response to the September 11th, 2001 attacks, this war sought to capture Osama bin Laden and remove the Taliban as leaders of the country. Ended in August, 2021.
• Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan (all were part of the former Soviet Union).
• A dam built over the Yangtze river in China. It is the world's biggest dam.