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© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 The Brazilian shantytowns on the outskirts of huge cities like Sao Paolo and Rio de Janeiro are known by this foreign term.
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 What are favelas? Scores
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 The international trade agreement that Mexico entered into with the U.S. and Canada in 1992.
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 What is NAFTA? Scores
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $600 The 2 modern-day Central American countries were NOT part of the Union of Central American States.
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $600 What is Panama and Belize? Scores
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $800 Once “The Paris of the Caribbean,” this city is now in shambles after the fall of the Soviet Union.
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $800 What is Havana? Scores
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $1000 Cuba and Puerto Rico share a common culture and history with this other Greater Antilles nation.
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $1000 What is the Dominican Republic? Scores
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 Mesopotamia nestled itself between these two rivers.
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 What are the Tigris and Euphrates? Scores
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$400 The coast around this body of water is rich with oil deposits, as evidenced by the wealth of the coastal countries like Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Kuwait.
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 What is the Persian Gulf? Scores
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $600 Israeli-designed technique of watering in the desert through special pipes that allow only a certain amount of water out.
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $600 What is drip irrigation? Scores
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $800 The first country to start producing oil in mass quantities and the traditional name of the country of Iran, used worldwide until well into the 20th century.
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $800 What is Persia? Scores
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $1000 The 2 requirements to be considered an Arab
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $1000 What is from the Arabian Peninsula and speak Arabic? Scores
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 The term used to refer to the system in India of having fixed layers of society, where priests are at the highest and “untouchables” at the bottom.
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 What is the caste system? Scores
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 Seasonal shifts in the winds, vital to the many farmers of South Asia, but they have also caused massive and destructive flooding in areas such as Bangladesh.
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 What are monsoons? Scores
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $600 These “students of religion” were trained at Islamic schools in Pakistan before taking over Afghanistan in the mid-1990s and instituting strict Islamic law.
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $600 Who are the Taliban? Scores
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $800 Bhutan is the only country in South Asia with this kind of government.
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $800 What is a (constitutional) monarchy? Scores
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $1000 The country created out of Pakistan territory 24 years after Pakistan’s independence.
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $1000 Who are the Bangladesh? Scores
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 The name for Mao’s policy where the Red Guards closed down all the schools and forced the Chinese population to the countryside in order to improve agriculture..
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 What is the Cultural Revolution? Scores
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 This is the name for the period of time in the late 1800s when Japan pulled itself out of isolation and began to industrialize, modernize, and colonize.
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 What was the Meiji Restoration? Scores
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$600 The only country to encompass part of the mainland and insular regions of Southeast Asia.
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $600 What is Malaysia Scores
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $800 After being driven out of mainland China by Mao’s communists, Chiang Kai-Shek’s Nationalists set up their government in what we call Taiwan and they called it this.
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $800 What is the Republic of China? Scores
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $1000 The coastal Chinese cities that operate with capitalistic principles, even though China is officially communist.
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $1000 What are SEZ’s? Scores
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 This European colonial nation left Rwanda in chaos by favoring the Tutsis, but leaving the power in the hands of the impoverished minority Hutus.
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 What is Belgium? Scores
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 The key trading port inside Africa prior to the colonial period
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© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $600 This is the one country in northern Africa that does not encompass any part of the Sahara Desert.
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $600 What is Tunisia? Scores
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $800 Beyond the absence of a mountainous backbone, this is most unique physical characteristic of Africa’s geography
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $800 What is location squarely on the equator? Scores
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $1000 The White and Blue Niles converge in the capital of this country, a former residence of Osama bin Laden and currently maybe the least desirable place to live in the world.
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $1000 What is Sudan? Scores
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 Standing atop Mt. Kilimanjaro, I am on the border of Tanzania and this country.
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $200 What is Kenya? Scores
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $400 I am in the Suez Canal, which connects the Mediterranean Sea to this body of water.
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© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $600 I am in the Brahmaputra River, which flows behind these two small mountainous South Asian countries.
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $600 What is Nepal and Bhutan? Scores
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $800 I am in the 3 rd largest river in the world, the one that serves as the major east-west transportation route in China.
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $800 What is the Chiang Jiang (or Yangtze)? Scores
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $1000 I am in the only landlocked Southeast Asian country.
© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved $1000 What is Laos? Scores
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© Mark E. Damon - All Rights Reserved The Southeast Asian port city that rivals Rotterdam as the world’s busiest port.
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