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the great game
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19th c. struggle for power in Central Asia between Russia, UK, and China
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fight
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Amu Darya and Syr Darya
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international rivers, major irrigation for cotton industry (causing shrinking of Aral Sea)
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they were soviet rivers
moscow controlled them used to grow crops |
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oil pipeline
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follows weird route to avoid possible conflict in Russia, Iran, and Chechnya
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rainshadow
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no rain due to the elevation taking up most of the rain prior to reaching this area
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central asia
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alluvial fan:
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fan-shaped deposits of sediments dropped by streams flowing out of the mountains, long devoted to farming
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Loess area
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steppe:
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grasslands
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Ex: Northern Central Asia
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Sinicization
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“Chinese-ification” Spread of Chinese citizens into non-Chinese parts of China
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Taiwan, TIbet, Uighur, etc.
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Taliban
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harsh Islamic fundamentalist political group that ruled most of Afghanistan in the late 1990s; lost power in 2001 but later regrouped in Pakistan and continues to fight against US-led forced in S and E Afghanistan
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theocracy
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government run by religious leaders.. Many Central Asian countries are theocracies, based around Islam
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Tibet with the Dalai Lama
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transhumance
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Moving flocks from lowland pastures in the winter to highland meadows in the summer.
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Kyrgyz of Kyrgyzstan
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desertification
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caused by overgrazing and poor farming practices
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gobbi desert spreading southward
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periphery to empires
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becasue its inland; never a large empire historically becasue its inland and secluded in rainshadow
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exotic rivers
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running through desert
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syr darya
amu darya |
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caspian sea
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worlds largest sea
central asia |
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geography
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high plateaus and mts. in central and southern areas
grassland/steppes in the north desert basin in southwestern areas |
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language
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turkish
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religion
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muslim and buddhism
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aral sea
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shrinking due to irrigation
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turkic
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umbrella language
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containment
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no new countries should become communist
us are against it |
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agriculture
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grow a lot of poppyseed
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4 major minority groups
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uighurs, manchurians, tibetans, and mongolians
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wan tto make them more chinese
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china's rust belt
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less important as time goes on, no more industrialization here
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south...
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grow rice
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west...
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desert
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east/north
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wheat and grain
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religions
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confucionism
taoism buddhism |
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confucionism
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he is from heaven(madate from heaven)
fillilal piety(hierarchy by age; older you are...more respect you get) |
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taoism
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yin vs yang
balance opposites are good |
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buddhism
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worship buddah
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opium wars
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war where the west got china addicted to opium in order to open up trade with them
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treaty ports
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these ports were opened during opium war
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hong kong (opium war)
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this city was the exception, it stayed controlled by great britain for a while longer than the rest
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lds church
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there is a temple in china
no proseliting tho |
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chaing kai shek
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he is in taiwan
nationalists |
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mao zedong
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he is in china
communists |
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chinese fertility
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restrictions
sons are good; girls are bad (son preference) one kid! |
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little emporers
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sons are good
abort or kill or give up daughters spoiled kids |
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japan development and prosperity
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homogenity
emphasis on education discipline industrial insular(islands that can be protected) good location for trade (situation) US rebelling after WW2 No defense expenses |
name 8
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japan development and prosperity
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limited resources
limited agricultural land physical hazards aging population |
name 4
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physical hazards
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active tectonic plates
tsumnamis little flatland |
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kamikaze
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divine wind
when huge fleets were coming to korea they were blown away |
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galapagos syndrone
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technology is verrrry advanced
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industry
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dependent on oil
silk!! |
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