Geography - 2nd 9 Weeks Assessment (Study Guide)

	1.	The flow of water in the Nile River has been controlled by the ____.  (318)  11-1

	2.	In the 1200s, many groups of Mongols joined together under ____.  (514) 17-3 

	3.	What was the World War II alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan called?  (151)

	4.	The Law of Return brought an increase in Israel’s ____.  (346) 12-2 

	5.	The Korean War ended in 1953 with ____.  (533) 18-2 

	6.	According to Christians, the messiah is ____. (309) 10-2

	7.	Alexander the Great conquered and spread the culture of ____.  (129)

	8.	The period of peace and prosperity initiated by Caesar Augustus was the ____.  (130)

	9.	The Mesopotamian civilization developed in a region known as ____. (301) 10-1

	10.	Iraq’s economy is based on ____.  (351) 12-4

	11.	The second-largest group of people in Iraq are ____.  (352) 12-4 

	12.	What body of water in Southwest Asia is the saltiest and lowest in the world?  (342) 12-2 

	13.	The word Sahara means ____.  (318)  11-1

	14.	The most important Christian holy day is ____. (310) 10-2

	15.	The most industrialized country in Southwest Asia is ____.  (344) 12-2 

	16.	Although Hindi is the official language of India, people in business and government use ____.  (476) 16-1 

	17.	The inventor of movable type was ____.  (138)

	18.	The leader responsible for the Holocaust was ____.  (151)

	19.	Which country was once split into communist and democratic parts but is now reunited?  (155)

	20.	The North Korean government _____ and ______ factories and farms.  (535) 18-2 

	21.	Japan has few ____ materials.  (526) 18-1 

	22.	Renaissance writers reached a wider audience by writing in ____.  (138)

	23.	Japan experiences many earthquakes because ____.  (524)  18-1

	24.	A philosopher who believed that government should serve and protect the people and their freedom was ____.  (140)

	25.	In 1910 this country conquered Korea and made it part of its empire.  (533) 18-2 

	26.	The Korean Peninsula juts out from northern China between the Sea of Japan (East Sea) and the ____.  (532) 18-2 

	27.	The idea that kings and queens ruled by the will of God was called the ____.  (140)

	28.	Judaism was first practiced by a small group of people called ____. (307) 10-2

	29.	The Himalaya and the Karakoram Range separate South Asia from the rest of ____.  (472) 16-1 

	30.	Why was the Great Wall of China built?  (501) 17-2

	31.	Istanbul was once called ____.  (338) 12-1 

	32.	During the 1930s, Japan began taking over land in ____.  (528) 18-1 

	33.	The four regions of the United Kingdom are England, Scotland, ____.  (174)

	34.	World War II came to an end when the United States dropped atomic bombs on which two Japanese cities?  (151)

	35.	The major religions of South Korea are Buddhism, Christianity, and ____.  (534) 18-2 

	36.	The Benelux countries are ____.  (181)