East Asia 1-25 Flashcards
(30 cards)
To supply dry land with water by using ditches or canals
Irrigate
A society with cities, a central government, social classes, and usually, writing , art, and agriculture.
Civilization
A ruler of widespread lands
Emperor
A series if 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 cultures through the movement of people.
Cultural diffusion
Of a relating to a government that owns a countries larger industries,businesses, and most of the land.
Communist
A fortification wall which, with all it’s extensions, stretched 4,000 miles through china, under construction from about 600 bc 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 threat animals
Nomad
Having similar members, in reference to a group.
Homogeneous
Extreme
Radical
A computer drivin machine that does tasks once done by humans.
Robot
To economically support, some governments 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.
Diversity
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 givin to china by its Chinese leaders.
Middle Kingdom
An economic system in which people are allowed to copse their own jobs, start private businesses, and make a profit.
Free enterprise
