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34 Cards in this Set
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anthropogenic landscape
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one that has been heavily transformed by human activities
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autonomous region
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a region that has some independence
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Burakumin
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an outcast group of Japanese whose ancestors worked in "polluting industries such as leathercraft
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central place theory
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says that an evenly distributed rural population will give rise to a regular hierarchy of urban places with uniformely spaced larger cities surrounded by constellations of smaller cities, each, in turn, will be surrounded by smaller towns
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China proper
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the populous eastern half of China
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loess
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fine windblown material that was deposited on the loess plateau
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Confucianism
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an idea system and philosphy developed by Confucius
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desertification
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the spread of desert conditions
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diaspora
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a scattering of a particular group of people over a vast geographical area
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geomancy
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the Chinese and Korean practice of designing buildings in accordance with the spiritual powers that supposedly course through the local topography
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gross domestic product
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the market value of all final goods and services produced within a country in a given period of time
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hiragana
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quasi-alphabet that allowed the expresion of words and parts speech not easily represented by Chinese characters
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ideographic writing
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each symbol represents primarily an idea rather than a sound
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kanji
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this is known as Chinese characters in Japanese
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laissez-faire
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market freedom with little governmental control
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Mandarin
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high officials of Imperial China
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Marxism
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the communistic belief system developed by Karl Marx
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multinational corporation
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companies that operate and manufacture in more than one country
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particularism
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focusing on the unique atributes of particular places
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pollution exporting
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when companies move their dirtier factories overseas
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regulatory lakes
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these reduce the flood crest downstream because they reduce the flow of water during floods
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rust belt
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zone of decaying factories
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samurai
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the warrior class of premodern Japan
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sediment load
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suspended clay, silt, and sand in the water
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Shogunate
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a supreme military leader who theoretically remained under the emperor
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social and regional differentiation
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certain groups of people and certain portions of the country prospered while others faltered
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Special Economic Zones
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where foreign investment was welcome and state interference minimal
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spheres of influence
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where the colonial power had no formal political authority but did enjoy informal influence and tremendous economic clout
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superconurbation
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a huge zone of coalesced metropolitan areas
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swidden agriculture
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slash and burn of forests
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tectonic plates
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the basic building blocks of Earth's crust
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tonal language
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where the meaning of each basic syllable changes completely according to the pitch in which it is uttered
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tribal peoples
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they have a traditional social order based on autonomous village communities
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urban primacy
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the concentration of urban population in a single city
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