Unit three Flashcards

1
Q

mountain range including Everest

A

The Himalayas

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2
Q

The tallest mountain in the world

A

Mount Everest

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3
Q

a field where rice is grown

A

Paddy fields

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4
Q

intensive agriculture is a kind of agriculture where a lot of money and labor are used to increase the yield that can be obtained per area of land.

A

Intensive agriculture

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5
Q

planting two different crops in the same field

A

Double cropping

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6
Q

agriculture but with fishies

A

Aquaculture

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7
Q

a government which is endowed with the outward symbols of authority but in which direction and control are exercised by another power.

A

Puppet government

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8
Q

a group of people living together and sharing possessions and responsibilities.

A

Communes

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9
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a pictorial symbol for a word or phrase. Pictographs were used as the earliest known form of writing, examples having been discovered in Egypt and Mesopotamia from before 3000 BC.

A

Pictograms

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10
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decorative handwriting or handwritten lettering.

A

Calligraphy

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11
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a Chinese philosophy based on the writings of Lao-tzu ( fl. 6th century BC), advocating humility and religious piety.

A

Taoism

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12
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a system of philosophical and ethical teachings founded by Confucius and developed by Mencius.

A

Confucianism

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13
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military government, involving the suspension of ordinary law.

A

Martial Law

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14
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a long high sea wave caused by an earthquake, submarine landslide, or other disturbance.

A

Tsunamis

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15
Q

a country that was connected to china but due to the Korean war there is now a north and south Korea north is communist and south is democratic

A

Korea

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16
Q

A very heavily populated country made of four islands

A

Japan

17
Q

a route regularly used by large numbers of migrating birds.

A

Flyway

18
Q

a hereditary commander in chief in feudal Japan. Because of the military power concentrated in his hands and the consequent weakness of the nominal head of state (the mikado or emperor), the shogun was generally the real ruler of the country until feudalism was abolished in 1867.

A

Shogun

19
Q

a political revolution that ended the shogun and restored power to the emperor.

A

Meiji Restoration

20
Q

add (territory) to one’s own territory by appropriation.

A

Annex

21
Q

Japans elected lawmaking body

A

Diet

22
Q

demilitarized zone, an area from which warring parties agree to remove their military forces.

A

Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)

23
Q

a sum of money granted by the government or a public body to assist an industry or business so that the price of a commodity or service may remain low or competitive.

A

Subsidies

24
Q

the principle that hard work is intrinsically virtuous or worthy of reward.

A

Work ethic

25
Q

an area in which the business and trade laws are different from the rest of the country.

A

Special Economic Zones

26
Q

an agreement made by opposing sides in a war to stop fighting for a certain time; a truce.

A

Armistice