Geography - 2nd Nine Weeks Assessment Study Guide 2008-2009

	1.	Judaism was first practiced by a small group of people called ____.
	2.	The first Russian civilization is known as ____.
	3.	What nation of Southwest Asia has land in both Asia and Europe?
	4.	The dictator of the Soviet Union in the late 1920s until after World War II was ____.
	5.	The most important Christian holy day is ____.
	6.	A philosopher who believed that government should serve and protect the people and their freedom was ____.
	7.	The Benelux countries are ____.
	8.	World War II came to an end when ____.
	9.	In 1971 after a civil war, Bangladesh gained its independence from ____.
	10.	The leader responsible for the Holocaust was ____.
	11.	The Mesopotamian civilization developed in a region known as ____.
	12.	The period of peace and prosperity initiated by Caesar Augustus was the ____.
	13.	The most industrialized country in Southwest Asia is ____.
	14.	According to Christians, the messiah is ____.
	15.	India is the world’s second-largest producer of what crop?
	16.	The idea that kings and queens ruled by the will of God was called the ____.
	17.	In the late 1400s, Ivan III made Muscovy stronger when he drove out the ____.
	18.	Iraq’s economy is based on ____.
	19.	The second-largest group of people in Iraq are ____.
	20.	The largest desert in Saudi Arabia is the ____.
	21.	The four regions of the United Kingdom are England, Scotland, ____.
	22.	The inventor of movable type was ____.
	23.	The Great Wall of China was built ____.
	24.	Which country was once split into communist and democratic parts but is now reunited?
	25.	What was the World War II alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan called?
	26.	Japan has few ____.
	27.	The Korean War ended in 1953 with ____.
	28.	What body of water in Southwest Asia is the saltiest and lowest in the world?
	29.	The Korean War erupted after ____.
	30.	Istanbul was once called ____.
	31.	In the 1200s, many groups of Mongols joined together under ____.
	32.	The Himalaya and the Karakoram Range separate South Asia from the rest of ____.
	33.	The Law of Return brought an increase in Israel’s ____.
	34.	Although Hindi is the official language of India, people in business and government use ____.
	35.	Damascus was founded more than 4,000 years ago as a ____.
	36.	The United States gained control of the Philippines as a result of the _________________________ War. 
	37.	The flow of water in the Nile River has been controlled by the ____.
	38.	Renaissance writers reached a wider audience by writing in ____.
	39.	The word Sahara means ____.
	40.	Most people in Indonesia are ____.