Southeast Asia Flashcards
(31 cards)
A society with cities, a central government, social classes, and usually,writing,art, and architecture.
Civilization
To supply dry land with water by using ditches or canals.
Irrigate
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
a government that owns a country’s large industries.
Communist
A fortification wall which, with all it’s extensions, stretched 4,000 miles through China, under construction from about 600BC 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 their animals.
Nomad
Having similar members, in reference to a group.
Homogeneous
Extreme
Radical
A compute 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 its slow down
Recession
Unfair treatment, often based on race or gender.
Discrimination
In business, to extend activities into different areas.
Diversify
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 for the first time.
Commodore Matthew Perry
The name given to China by its Chinese leaders.
Middle Kingdom
A economic system in which people are allowed to choose their own jobs, start private businesses, and make profit.
Free Enterprise
