WorksheetsUnit 10 East and SE Asia
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
This landlocked country rests between Vietnam and Thailand in southeast Asia, and has a population of around 7 million
Indonesia
China
Japan
Laos
All of these are major river systems that flow through east and southeast Asia EXCEPT
Indus
Yangtze
Yellow
Mekong
What serves as a natural border between China and India?
The Rocky Mountains
The South China Sea
The Indus River
The Himalyan Mountains
What major event affected Chinese history and Hong Kong in the late 1990s?
The Great Leap Forward
The flooding of the Yellow River
Reunification after British rule of Hong Kong ending
The Tiananmen Square Massacre
Which communist group occupied Cambodia during the 20th century and was led by Pol Pot?
Viet Cong
CCCP
Wu Tang Clan
Khmer Rouge
Some historians see the Vietnam War as a continuation of which conflict?
Battle of Gallipoli
First Indochina War
The Korean War
The Sino-Russo War
What is one major difference between present day Mongolia compared to Mongolia hundreds of years ago?
They speak Mongolian
The size of the country now versus the empire's size then
Their nomadic lifestyles
The architecture
Many Filipinos have Spanish sounding surnames, what is the most probable cause for this?
They are big fans of Spain and South America
They originally colonized the area in what is now Spain in prehistoric times
They are Spain's biggest trading partner
Spanish colonization years ago left influence on names as well as religion
Languages found in southeast Asia are tonal, meaning that
Same sounding words could have completely different meanings based on which pitch or inflection is used
They all communicate by singing to one another
Languages are a series of grunts and clicks as opposed to words
They are interchangeable with one another
What was one major cause of the Opium Wars in China?
Chinese citizens were fighting to legalize opium
The British were smuggling in opium to trade for silver so they could afford more tea
Opium numbed the senses, meaning their boxers could take more hits
China had invaded Britain to gain control of their opium reserves
Which of these countries has the highest population in the world?
Bangladesh
India
China
Russia
This Chinese policy, introduced in the 1970s, was recently relaxed to give families greater reproductive freedom.
No Babies Amendment
Zhan Zhuang
Great Leap Forward
One Child Policy
The responsibility of rebuilding Japan in a more western image fell to
Hideki Tojo
Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (SCAP)
MacArthur Park
Mao Zedong
What happened to Vietnam's economy a few decades after the end of the Vietnam war?
It increased
It decreased
It stagnated
Vietnam ceased to exist as a country after the war
This country was originally named Burma, for the ethnic group living there, but changed names in the late 20th century
Indonesia
Malaysia
East Timor
Myanmar
When looking at the Asian Tiger economies, what economic model did they follow to achieve such growth?
Rostow's stages of development
Privatization of their oil reserves like in the Middle East
Japan's post-war rebuilding model
Outsourcing labor
What is another name for the demilitarized zone(DMZ), and why?
No man's land, because no one crosses it
Central Korea, because it is in the middle of the peninsula
SCAP territory, because of American intervention
The 38th parallel, because of the line of latitude that the DMZ falls on
What was the main reason for American intervention in Korea and Vietnam?
They wanted to flex their military might after becoming a post war super power
They wished to halt the spread of communism due to the Domino Theory
America had been enemies with these countries for hundreds of years
These countries contained resources that the US wanted for themselves
Which of these was one of ancient China's most famous inventions?
Democracy
The cotton gin
Gunpowder
Rouge
A long line of family rulers of a country is called a
Pod
Macro-Monarchy
Linear function
Dynasty
