South East Asia Ch. 2 Vocab Flashcards
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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 architecture.
Civilization
A ruler of widespread lands.
Emperor
A series of 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 culture through the movement of people.
Cultural diffusion
Of a relating to a government that owns a country’s large 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 600 bc to 1600 ad
The 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 their animals.
Nomad
Having similar members in reference to a group.
Homogeneous
Extreme
Radical
A computer driven 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 area.
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 given to chime by its Chinese leaders.
Middle Kingdom
An economic system in which people are aloud to choose their own jobs start private businesses and make profit.
Free enterprise
