Flashcards in FBMS Asia Vocabulary ch 4-6 Deck (25):
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Emperor
Male ruler , king
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Dynasty
Family of rulers
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Clan
Group of families w/ common ansestor
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Cultural diffusion
Spreading of ideas from culture to culture
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Communist
Goverment that controls countries large buisness
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Commune
Community when people work together
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Dialect
Unique language to a different region
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Nomad
A person that has no settled home but moves from place to place
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Homogeneous
Identical or similar
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Ethnic group
A group of people who share such characteristics as language religion and ancestry
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Caste
In the Hindu religion, a social group into which people are born and which they cannot change; each group with assigned jobs
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Colony
Land ruled by another nation
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Boycott
Refusal to buy goods
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Partion
Division into parts
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Monotheism
Belief that there is only one God
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Collective farm
In a communist country, a large farm formed from many private farms collected into a single unit controlled by the government
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Muezzin
A person whose job is to call Muslims to pray
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Holocaust
The systematic killing of more than 6 million Jews and others by the Nazi Germany before and during WW2
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Khmer Empire
An empire that included much of present day Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, and part of Laos
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Nationalist
A person who is devoted to the interest of his or her country
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Khmer Rouge
The Cambodian Communist party
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Maori
A native of New Zealand whose ancestors traveled from Asia to Polynesia, and later to New Zealand
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early people from Australia
Aborine
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Staition
Raising live stock
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