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diaspora
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Is any movement of a population sharing common national and/or ethnic identity.
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ideographic writing
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Pictographic characters grouped together to create new concepts.
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Kanji
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Chinese characters that are used in the modern Japanese logographic writing system.
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shogun
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A hereditary military dictator of Japan.
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tribal peoples
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A tribe, viewed historically or developmentally, consists of a social group existing before the development of, or outside of, states.
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proxy way
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A proxy war or proxy warfare is a war that results when opposing powers use third parties as substitutes for fighting each other directly.
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orientalism
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the scholarly knowledge of Asian cultures and languages and people
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desertification
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the gradual transformation of habitable land into desert;
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cooling pond
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a pond where hot water from factories and power plants is stored until it is the same temperature as nearby bodies of water.
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