Chapter 2 south east asia Flashcards
A society with cities, a central government, social classes, and usually, writing, art, and architecture.
Civilization
To supply dry land with water by using ditches or canal.
Irrigate
A ruler of widespread lands.
Emperor
A series of rulers from the same family, Chinese history is described by dynasties.
Dynasty
A movement of people from one country or region to another.
Migration
A group of families who claim a common ancestor.
Clan
A spreading of ideas and culture through the movement of people.
Cultural diffusion
Of a relating to a government that owns a country’s large industries, business, and most of the land.
Communist
A fortification wall which, with all its extensions, stretched 4,000 miles through china, under construction from about 600 BCC to 1600 AD.
Great Wall of china
A community in which land is held in common and where members live and work together.
Commune
A version of a language found only in certain regions.
Dialect
A person who has no settled home, nomads move from place to place in search of water and grazing land for their animals.
Nomad
Having similar members, in reference to a group.
Homogeneous
Extreme
Radical
A computer driven machine that does tasks once done by humans.
Robot
To economically support, some government subsidize certain industries.
Subsidize
A period of time when an economy and business that support it slow down.
Recession
Unfair treatment, often based on race or gender.
Discrimination
In business, to extend activities into different areas.
Diversify
A huge food shortage.
Famine
Peaceful faith taught respect.
Confucius
In 1853 he went to Japan to try to get them to trade with the US the first time.
Commodore Matthew perry
The name given to china by its Chinese leaders.
Middle Kingdom
A economic system in which people are allowed to choose their own jobs, start private business, and make a profit.
Free enterprise
A strong communist leader who enforced the one child law.
Mao Zedong
Groups of youths who were taught to have no connections to the past, they were told not to respect their parents/teachers.
Red guard
A large island country off the southeast coast of mainland china.
Taiwan
The capital of South Korea.
Seoul
