Chapter 27

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Tibet

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A mountainous region in Asia on the northern side of the Himalayas, since 1965 forming an autonomous region in the west of China; pop. 2,196,000; official languages, Tibetan and Chinese; capital, Lhasa

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Aborigines

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A person, animal, or plant that has been in a country or region from earliest times

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Mongolia

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A large and sparsely populated country in eastern Asia that includes the Gobi Desert, bordered by Siberia in Russia on the north and by China on the south; pop. 2,750,000; capital, Ulaanbaatar (Ulan Bator); language, Mongolian (official)

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Shanghai

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Force (someone) to join a ship lacking a full crew by drugging them or using other underhanded means

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Bejing

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The capital of China, in the northeastern part of the country; pop. 6,920,000. It became the country's capital in 1421, at the start of the Ming period, and survived as the capital of the Republic of China after the revolution of 1912

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Tianjin

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A port in northeastern China, in Hebei province; pop. 5,700,000

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Guangzhou

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A city in southern China, the capital of Guangdong province; pop. 3,918,000. It is the leading industrial and commercial center of southern China

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Dynasty

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A line of hereditary rulers of a country

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Homogeneous

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Of the same kind; alike

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Tokyo

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The capital of Japan, located on the northwestern shores of Tokyo Bay, on the southeastern part of the island of Honshu; pop. 8,163,000. Formerly called Edo, it was the center of the military government under the shoguns 1603–1867. Renamed Tokyo in 1868, it replaced Kyoto as the imperial capital

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Shogun

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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

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Samurai

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A member of a powerful military caste in feudal Japan, esp. a member of the class of military retainers of the daimyos

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Nagasaki

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A city and port in southwestern Japan, on the western coast of Kyushu island; pop. 445,000. On August 9, 1945, it became the target of the second atom bomb dropped by the U.S

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Hiroshima

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A city in southwestern Japan, on the southern coast of the island of Honshu; pop. 1,086,000. It was the target of the first atom bomb, which was dropped by the US on August 6, 1945, and resulted in the deaths of about one third of the city's population of 300,000. This, with a second attack on Nagasaki three days later, led to Japan's surrender and to the end of World War II

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Haiku

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A Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world

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Acculturation

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socialization: the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture; "the socialization of children to the norms of their culture"

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Seoul

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The capital of South Korea, located in the northwestern part of the country, on the Han River; pop. 10,628,000. It was the capital of the Korean Yi dynasty from the late 14th century until 1910, when Korea was annexed by the Japanese. Extensively developed under Japanese rule, it became the capital of South Korea after the partition of 1945

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Pyongyang

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The capital of North Korea; pop. 2,000,000. The oldest city on the Korean peninsula, it was first mentioned in records in 108 bc. It developed as an industrial city during the years of Japanese occupation 1910–45

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Cultural divergence

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the restriction of a culture from outside influences.