Asia Flashcards
(36 cards)
Confucianism
A Chinese philosophy that teaches that the best organizational model for the state and society is a hierarchy based on the patriarchal family
Civil disobedience
Protesting the laws or policies by peaceful direct action
Loess
Wind blown material that forms deep soils in china, North America, and Central Europe
Special economic zones
Free trade zones within china, which are commonly called export processing zones elsewhere
Subcontinent
A term often used to refer to the entire Indian peninsula, including Nepal, Bhutan, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh
Monsoon
A wind pattern in which in summer months, warm, wet air coming from the ocean brings copious rainfall, and in winter, cool, dry air moves from the continental interior toward the ocean
Typhoon
A tropical cyclone or hurricane in the western Pacific Ocean
Buddhism
A religion of Asia that originated in India in the sixth century bce as a reinterpretation of Hinduism; it emphasizes modest living and peaceful self-reflection leading to enlightenment
Nationalism
Devotion to the interests or culture of a particular country, nation, or culture group; the idea that a group of people living in a specific territory and sharing cultural traits should be united in a single country to which they are loyal and obedient
Great Leap Forward
Ian economic reform program under Mao Zedong intended to quickly raise china to the industrial level of Britain and the United States
Cultural revolution
A political movement launched in 1966 to force the entire population of china to support the continuing revolution
The green revolution
Increases in food production brought about though the use of new seeds, fertilizers, mechanized equipment, irrigation, pesticides, and herbicides
Partition
The breakup following Indian independence that resulted in the establishment of Hindu India and Muslim Pakistan
Caste system
A complex, ancient Hindu system for dividing society into heredity hierarchical classes
Orographic rainfall
Rainfall produced when a moving a moving moist air mass encounters a mountain range, rises, cools, and releases condensed moisture that falls as rain
Crony capitalism
A type of corruption in which politicians, bankers, and entrepreneurs, sometimes members of the same family, have close personal as well as business relationships
Domino theory
A foreign policy theory that used the idea of the domino effect to suggest that if one country fell to communism, others in the neighboring region were also likely to fall.
Lingua Franca
Language of trade
Coral bleaching
Color loss that results when photosynthetic algae that live in the corals are expelled
Shifting cultivation
A productive system of agriculture in which small plots are cleared in forest lands, the dried brush is burned to release nutrients, and the clearings are planted with multiple species; each plot is used for only two or 3 years and then abandoned for many years of regrowth
Tsunami
A large sea wave caused by an earthquake
Association of south East Asian nations ( ASEAN)
An organization of south East Asian governments that was established to further economic growth and political cooperation
Sex tourism
The sexual entertainment industry that services primarily men who travel for the purpose of living out their fantasies during a few weeks of vacation
Homogenous culture
A society of people that are comprised of the same race.
