Unit 3 Flashcards
(26 cards)
A mountain system of south-central Asia extending about 2,400 km (1,500 mi) through Kashmir, northern India, southern Tibet, Nepal, and Bhutan
The Himalayas
A mountain in the central Himalayas on the border of Tibet and Nepal
Mount Everest
Wet land where rice is grown
Paddy Fields
A form of agriculture using a great amount of human labor and/or capital to farm small amounts of land
Intensive Agriculture
Harvesting two crops in the same plot each year
Double Cropping
Raising and harvesting fish and marine life in ponds and other bodies of water
Aquaculture
Government controlled by outside forces, such as another country’s government
Puppet Government
Collective farms grouped together to organize farming and plan public services
Communes
Simple pictures used to represent ideas
Pictograms
Artistic handwriting or lettering
Calligraphy
A religion that teaches there is natural order to the universe called the Tao
Taoism
A philosophy based on the teachings of Confucius
Confucianism
Military rule
Martial Law
Large sea waves created by undersea tectonic activity like earthquakes
Tsunamis
a former country in E Asia, on a peninsula SE of Manchuria and between the Sea of Japan and the Yellow Sea
Korea
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
Japan
Migration route for birds
Flyway
A powerful warlord in early Japan
Shogun
Japanese political revolution that overthrew that shogun and restored the power of the emperor
Meiji Restoration
To formally join an area to a country
Annex
Japan’s elected lawmaking body
Diet
Incorporates territory on both sides of the cease-fire line as it existed at the end of the Korean War
Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)
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
Subsidies
the principle that hard work is intrinsically virtuous or worthy of reward.
Work Ethic
