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Unit 3 Flashcards

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A mountain system of south-central Asia extending about 2,400 km (1,500 mi) through Kashmir, northern India, southern Tibet, Nepal, and Bhutan

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The Himalayas

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A mountain in the central Himalayas on the border of Tibet and Nepal

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Mount Everest

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Wet land where rice is grown

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Paddy Fields

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A form of agriculture using a great amount of human labor and/or capital to farm small amounts of land

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Intensive Agriculture

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Harvesting two crops in the same plot each year

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Double Cropping

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Raising and harvesting fish and marine life in ponds and other bodies of water

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Aquaculture

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Government controlled by outside forces, such as another country’s government

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Puppet Government

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Collective farms grouped together to organize farming and plan public services

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Communes

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Simple pictures used to represent ideas

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Pictograms

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Artistic handwriting or lettering

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Calligraphy

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A religion that teaches there is natural order to the universe called the Tao

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Taoism

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A philosophy based on the teachings of Confucius

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Confucianism

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Military rule

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Martial Law

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Large sea waves created by undersea tectonic activity like earthquakes

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Tsunamis

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a former country in E Asia, on a peninsula SE of Manchuria and between the Sea of Japan and the Yellow Sea

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Korea

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a string of more than 3,000 islands to the east of Asia extending 1,300 miles between the Sea of Japan and the western Pacific Ocean

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Japan

17
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Migration route for birds

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Flyway

18
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A powerful warlord in early Japan

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Shogun

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Japanese political revolution that overthrew that shogun and restored the power of the emperor

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Meiji Restoration

20
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To formally join an area to a country

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Annex

21
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Japan’s elected lawmaking body

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Diet

22
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Incorporates territory on both sides of the cease-fire line as it existed at the end of the Korean War

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Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)

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A sum of money granted by the government or a public body to assist an industry or business so that the price of a commodity or service may remain low or competitive

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Subsidies

24
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the principle that hard work is intrinsically virtuous or worthy of reward.

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Work Ethic

25
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Supposed to facilitate rapid economic growth by leveraging tax incentives to attract foreign investment and spark technological advancement

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Special Economic Zones

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An agreement made by opposing sides in a war to stop fighting for a certain time; a truce

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Armistice

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