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democracy |
where all eligible people can elect a representative |
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communism |
all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs |
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monarchy |
a form of government where one person is in charge (the monarch) |
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constitutional monarchy |
where one person has all the power to a certain limit because of a constitution |
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dictatorship |
military leader is in charge |
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anarchy |
where there is no government |
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peninsula |
land that is surrounded by water on 3 sides |
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archipelago |
a group of closely scattered a |
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mountains |
a large natural elevation of the Earth's surface rising up from the surrounding level; a large steep hill |
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delta |
an area where sand, silt, clay, or gravel is deposited at the mouth of a river |
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strait |
a narrow passage of water connecting two seas or two larger areas of water |
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plateau |
elevated plain |
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desert |
an area the receives less than 10" of precipitation a year |
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isthmus |
a narrow strip of land that connects two larger pieces of land |
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2 branches of geography |
physical & human |
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traditional |
resources that are distributed mainly through family |
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command |
publicly owned |
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market |
privately owned |
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mixed |
parts owned privately and parts owned by government or other authorities |
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ring of fire |
a ring of active volcanoes |
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plate tectonics |
the idea that earth is made up of a huge slab of moving rock |
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5 themes of geography |
location, region, human-environment interaction, place, movement |
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earth sun relationship |
earth has a natural tilt, one end points to the sun and the other points away from the sun; because of this, we have the seasons |
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types of location |
absolute and relative |
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Muhammad |
founder of the religion of Islam |
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Hammurabi |
ruler of Babylon, best known for his law code- Hammurabi's code |
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Chang Kai Shek |
started building the great wall of china |
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Marco Polo |
worked in the court of the Mongols and played an important part in telling the Europeans about China and East Asia |
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Mathew Perry |
commodore of the United States Navy |
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Siddhartha Gautama |
he was Buddha |
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Mohandas Gandhi |
person who came back from Britain and used civil disobedience towards Britain |
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Confucius |
He though people should should be normally good and loyal to their families, he also believed that a ruler should lead his people as though he were the head of the family |
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Shi Huangdi |
he founded the Qin dynasty and then when 13 became king and right after that became China's first emperor at 38 |
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Kubai Khan |
Grandson of Genghis Khan, Mongolian general and statesman, conquered china, became first emperor of the country's Yuan dynasty |
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Saddam Hussein |
president of Iraq for 24 years |
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Osama Bin Laden |
created a single Islamic state |
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Mao Zedong |
China's first communist leader |
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OPEC |
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries |
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ASEAN |
Association of Southwest Asian Nations |
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Reincarnation |
once you die you are reborn into another body |
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Polytheism |
people who worship many gods |
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Monotheism |
a period of a thousand years |
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Nirvana |
where there is neither suffering, or sense of self, and the person is released from the effects of karma; the final goal of Buddhism; a happy place |
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Mosque |
a Muslim place of worship |
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karma |
that what you do in this life, affects you in the next |
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5 pillars |
Sahada, Salat, Zakat, Sawm, Hajj |
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Vedas |
religious hymns handed down orally for many centuries before they were written down |
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eight-fold path |
right views, intention, speech, action, livelihood, effort, mindfulness, and concentration |
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four noble truths |
the four central beliefs containing the essence of Buddhist teaching |
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Partition of Palestine |
to be separated into parts between Arabs and Jews |
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Partition of India |
was the dividing of the British Indian Empire into India and Pakistan |
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Israeli - Arab conflict |
the political tension, military conflicts and disputes between a number of Arab countries and Israel |
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Great Leap Forward |
it was created to increase China's industrial output |
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Tiananman Square |
protests where hundreds of protesters were killed or injured by Chinese military |
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pearl harbor |
when the Japanese bombed a U.S. army base |
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Vietnam War |
a war between North Vietnam and South Vietnam, NV was backed by china, North Korea, and other communist countries; SV was backed by Thailand, United States and Vietnam and other anti-communist countries; it ended up being a war between the United States and Vietnam |
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Spanish American War |
a conflict between America and Spain; the U.S. declared war on Spain because they sunk the USS Maine and Havana |
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Korean War |
the north attacked the south |
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cold war |
no one actually fought, only threats were sent back and forth |
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caste system |
the social class a person is born into and cannot change |
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Cuneiform |
writing that was done on clay tablets in Mesopotamia (Iraq) |
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taliban |
Islamic fundamentalist political movement in Afghanistan currently waging war in that country |
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trade surplus |
when you export more than you import |
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trade deficit |
when you import more than you export |
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mandate of heaven |
the belief in china that the emperor's to be "chosen" by the gods and that there can only be one ruler at a time |
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Samurai |
Japanese warriors |
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feudalism |
giving land for military service |
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human capital |
how skilled workforce of a country is |
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rain shadow |
the leeward side of a mountain near an ocean that get no rain because of the windward side side |
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latitude |
the horizontal lines on a map or globe |
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longitude |
the vertical lines on a map or globe |
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voluntary trade |
a market where buyers and sellers have the right to sell and buy their own preference or refuse to if they choose to do so |
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spillover |
economic events in one area that occur in another because of something else |
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water cycle |
evaporation and precipitation |
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refugees |
a person who flees a country because of natural disaster, war, or in search of a better life |
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cultural diffusion |
the spread of cultural ideas and social activities from one group to another |
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monsoons |
a wind |
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renewable resources |
natural resources that can be renewed |
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nonrenewable resources |
natural resources that cannot be renewed |
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weather |
what the temperature is at the time |
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climate |
what the average temperature is |
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silk road |
a series of trade routes leading from Europe to China |
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Himalayas |
the largest mountain range in Asia and the world |
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Suez Canal |
artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea |
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climates of the different regions of Asia |
East Asia: temperate; Southeast Asia: tropical Savannah , humid; South Asia: tropical and temperate; Southwest Asia: arid, semiarid, and temperate |
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great wall of china |
a wall extending for 1500 miles built to defend the Chinese border in Ancient China |
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Ganges River |
trans-boundary river of Asia which flows through the nations of India and Bangladesh |
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Major Archipelagos in Asia |
Japan, Philippines, and Maldives |
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Tigris and Euphrates Rivers |
the rivers that surround Mesopotamia or current day Iraq |
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yellow river |
Chinese civilization began there |
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Indus river |
one of the longest rivers in Asia |
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highest point in the world |
the peak Mount Everest |
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lowest point in the world |
dead sea |
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region of largest oil reserves |
southwest Asia or the middle east around the pacific golf |
