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Exam 3 Flashcards

1
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Maghreb

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Northwest Africa centered morocco

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2
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Superimposed political boundaries

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States created without local input.

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3
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Incomplete Colonialism

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Colonial powers left before creating societies.

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4
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Percent of global economy in Sub-Saharan Africa

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2%

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5
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Berbers

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Comes from Barbarian.

Non-Arab ethnicities.

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6
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African country where Goromonzi Project exists?

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Zimbabwe

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African country where Okavango Delta is located

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Botswana

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8
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“Big Three Diseases” in Africa

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  • Malaria
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Tuberculosis
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Ebola

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Hemorrhagic fever with 50% mortality rate.

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10
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Apartheid

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Racism, blacks had few rights.

Segregation

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11
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Nelson Mandela

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Civil rights in Africa.

Nobel peace prize.

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12
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Population of India

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1.3 Billion

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13
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Monsoon

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Heavy summer rain

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14
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Karma

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Hindu and Buddhist beliefs that who you live this life, determines your next.

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Dharma

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Things and individual person needs to learn to achieve enlightenment.

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16
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Four Nobel truths of Buddhism

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  • sorrow and suffering are apart of life
  • people often suffer because they desire things they can’t have or don’t need
  • you escape suffering by ending desires
  • enlightenment - follow “the middle way” and avoid extremes
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17
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Dalits

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Untouchable, lowers dirty work

Poor

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18
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Mahatma Gandhi

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Hindu spiritual and political leader.

Led independence from England.

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19
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Syncretic religions

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  • 80% Hindu, 10% Buddhist

- beliefs are mixed together

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20
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Ho Chi Minh

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Uncle Ho

Leader of communist side of war

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21
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Village in Vietnam where massacre occurred

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My Lai

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22
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Number of Americans killed in Vietnam war

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58,236

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23
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Angkor Wat

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Hindu/Buddhist city temple in Cambodia.

24
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Singapore is a major trading city dominated by what ethnicity

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Chinese

25
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Which island in Indonesia is famous for orangutans?

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Sumatra

26
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Which island is mostly Hindu

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Bali

27
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Irian Jaya

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Javan name for Papua New Guinea, an area they conquered and renamed .

28
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Brown Colonialism

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When formerly white people become dictators over other non white people.

29
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How big in area is China compared to the U.S.

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The same size

30
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Mao Zedong

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Chinese communist won in 1949 leader of Chinese communist revolution.

31
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Sinicization

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Mao’s goal

Make all ethnicity become Chinese.

Enforced Chinese identity.

32
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Sahel

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“Border” transition zone between Arid North and Humid South.

33
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Sudan was split into two countries, why?

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Difference in race and religion.

34
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Berlin conference of 1884

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European countries split up African colonies.

35
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African countries with largest population and lots of oil.

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Nigeria

36
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CITES

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International treaty to protect endangered species.

37
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DaBeers

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A global diamond cartel

38
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Hindu pilgrimage city in India.

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Varanasi

39
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Powell doctrine

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Use diplomacy, go to eat with an exit strategy, have support of the American people, build allies with other countries, have over whelming military superiority.

40
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Thailand - what about its geopolitical history makes it unique in SE Asia

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Was never a European colony.

41
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Indonesians mostly are members of what religion?

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Islam

42
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Which island/nation controls Indonesia?

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Java

43
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Geographic traits of East Asia

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Largest population of any religion, wars and political instability, birthplace of civilizations, countries are rich and poor, capitalist and communist.

44
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Population of China

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1.4 billion

45
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Ethnocentrism

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Belief that China is the center of the world.

46
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Forbidden city

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Old dynasty compound in Beijing. Now a tourist sight.

47
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One child policy and its effects.

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  • 400 million fewer births
  • 120 males to 100 females
  • selective abortion of female fetuses
  • trafficking of young girls for marriage
48
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Hutong

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Chinese “barrios” now disappearing

49
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River where the three gorges dam is being build

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Yangtze

50
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Deng Xiaoping

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Chinese leader after Mao. Created special economic zones.

51
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Special economic zones.

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Capability business zones in China.

52
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Han

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Dominant ethnicity

53
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Mongolia

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Not apart of China, pro u.s.

Buddhist country.

54
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Tibetans

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Ethnicity in Tibet, are now Chinese citizens.

55
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Great Wall of China is a symbol of what forces

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Paranoia, fear, ethnocentrism

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