1.      What is the subspecies of humans that exist today? How did they originate?

2.      What is prehistory? How do we know about prehistoric societies? Which scientists study them?

3.      How did the constant food supply affect human societies?

4.      What does the term “Latin America” refer to?

5.      What is the population characteristics of Latin America?

6.      What languages are spoken in Latin America?

7.      Which nation colonized most of the countries of “Latin America.”

8.      What were known as Latifundio?

9.      What is the most followed religion in Latin America?

10.   What does NAFTA stand for? Which countries are members?

11.   What is the most industrialized nation in Latin America?

12.  What is Paleolithic age? How did the Paleolithic people live? What were there characteristics?

13.  What does Neolithic age refer to? What important changes took place in human life during this era?

14.  What is civilization? How did civilization emerge?

15.  What are the different vegetation zones of Russia? Which one is the most fertile? Where was the most crops grown in Russia?

16.  Where did the Russians get their Orthodox religion and Cyrillic alphabet from?

17.  How did Mikhail Gorbachev affect Soviet Economy?

18. What are the different groups of ethnic people in CIS? Which group forms the majority?

Review the following names and terms:

• Monsoon
• Ethnocentrism
• Great Leap Forward
• Cultural Revolution
• Filial Piety
• 5 relationships
• Sorrow of China
• Four Modernizations
• Tiananmen Square
• Arable
• Archipelago
• Zaibatsu
• Bantu
• Swahili
• Desertification

Review the following questions:

1. What are the main islands of Japan? Which one is the largest?
2. What types of natural disasters are common in Japan? What impact did natural disasters have on Japanese culture?
3. What is the resource base of Japan? How do Japan acquire its resources for development?
4. How are the following similar: Shinto, Animism, Daoism.
5. Why would Japanese have to use their land very carefully?
6. What are the two major parts of Southeast Asia?
7. What major religions are practiced in what parts of Southeast Asia?
8. How did Mao Zedong try to change China?
9. How did Deng Xiaoping transform China?
10. How did Swahili culture develop in Africa?
11. What is the impact of desertification o Africa?
12. What role did Bantu Migration play on African cultural formation?

Review the following names and terms:

• Cone Shaped Peninsula
• Subcontinent
• Monsoon
• Ethnocentrism
• Deccan Plateau
• Indo-Gangatic Plains
• Great Leap Forward
• Cultural Revolution
• Filial Piety
• 5 relationships
• Sorrow of China
• Four Modernizations
• Tiananmen Square
• Arable
• Archipelago
• Indochina
• Hua-chiao

Review the following questions:

 Which main river systems have helped India grow?

1. What is the caste system?
2. What influences / affects the food production in South Asia?
3. What economic problems do the countries of South Asia face?
4. What major religions are practiced in South Asia?
5. What are the two major parts of Southeast Asia?
6. What major religions are practiced in what parts of Southeast Asia?
7. How did Mao Zedong try to change China?
8. How did Deng Xiaoping transform China?
9. What were the Four Modernizations? What were its effect?
10. What happened in Tiananmen square?
11. Where do most people in China live?
12. What philosophy had the greatest impact on China? how?