Vocab 13 Flashcards
Khmer Rouge
“Red cambodians” left-wing insurgent group led by French-educated Marxists. rebelled against the royal Cambodian government in the early 1960s and again in a peasants revolt in 1967
Lingua Franca
Agreed upon common language to facilitate communication on specific topics
Animism
Wide variety of tribal religions that generally focus on natures spirits and human ancestors
Bumiputra
“Sons of the Soil” the name given to native Malay, who are given preference for jobs and schooling by the Malaysian government
Ramayana
One of the two main epic poems of the Hindu religion
Tsunami
very large waves induced by earthquakes
Shifted cultivators
Migrants with or without agricultural experience, who are transplanted by government relocation schemes
ASEAN
International organization linking together the ten most important countries of Southeast Asia
Typhoon
The name given to tropical hurricanes in the western Pacific
Transmigration
The relocation of a nations population from one location to another within its national territory
Domino Theory
US geopolitical policy of the assumption that if Vietnam fell to the communists, the rest of SE Asia would soon follow
Golden Triangle
An area of northern Thailand, Burma and Laos that is known as a major source region for heroin and is plugged into the global drug trade
Crony capitalism
A system in which close friends of a political leader are either legally or illegally given business advantage in return for their political support
Entrepot
A city and port that specializes in the transshipement of goods
