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Alluvial Fans
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A fan shaped deposit of sediments dropped by a river or stream flowing out of a mountain range
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Shanghai Cooperation Organization
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Formed in 2001, it is a geopolitical group composed of CHina, Russia, Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan that focuses on common security threats and works to enhance economic cooperation and cultural exchange in Central Asia
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Loess
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A fine, wind deposited sediment that makes fertile soil but is very vulnerable to water erosion
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Pastoralist
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nomadic and sedentary peoples who rely upon livestock for sustenance and livelihood
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Steppe
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Semiarid grasslands found in many parts of the world. Grasses are usually shorter and less dense in steppes than in prairies
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Theocracy
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a political state led by religious authorities
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Anthropogenic Landscape
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a landscape heavily transformed by human agency and activity
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Autonomous Region
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in the context of China, provinces that have been granted a certain degree of political and cultural autonomy, or freedom from centralized authority, owing to the fact that they contain large numbers of non Han Chinese people. Critics contend that they have little true autonomy
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China Proper
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the eastern half of the country of China where the Han Chinese form the dominant ethnic group. The vast majority of China's population is located in China Proper
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Confucianism
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The philosophical system developed by Confucius in the six century B.C.E.
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Geomancy
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The traditional Chinese and Korean practice of designing buildings in accordance with the principles of cosmic harmony and discord that supposedly course through the local topography
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Hiragana
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the main Japanese syllabary, used for writing indigenous words, each symbol stands for a particular vowel-consonant
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Ideographic Writing
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A writing system in which each symbol represents not a sound but rather a concept
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Kanji
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the Chinese characters, or ideographs, used in Japanese writing
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Marxism
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the philosophy developed by Karl Marx, the most important historical proponent of communism. Marxism, which has many variants, presumes the desirability and the necessity of a socialist economic system run through a central planning agency
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Animism
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A wide variety of tribal religions based on the worship of nature's spirits and human ancestors
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Association of Southeast Asia Nations (ASEAN)
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A supranational geopolitical group linking together 10 different states of Southeast Asia
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Bumiputra
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The name given to native Malay (literally, sons of the soil) who are given preference for jobs and schooling by the malaysian government
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Crony Capitalism
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a system in which close friends of a political leader are either legally or illegally given business advantages in return for their political support
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Domino Theory
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A US geopolitical policy of the 1970s that stemmed from the assumption that if vietnam feel to communists, the rest of Southeast Asia would soon follow
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Entrepot
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a city and port that specializes in transshipment
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Golden Triangle
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an area of northern Thailand, Burma, and Laos that is known as a major source region for heroin and is plugged into the global drug trade
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Khmer Rouge
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Literally "red (or communist) cambodians" the left wing insurgent group led by French educated marxists rebelled against the Cambodian government in the early 60s and again in a peasant' revolt in 67
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Primate Cities
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the largest urban settlement in a country that dominates all other urban places, economically and politically. often, yet not always, the primate city is also the country's capital
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Typhoons
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large tropical storms, similar to hurricanes, that form in the western Pacific Ocean in tropical latitudes and cause widespread damage to the Philippines and coastal Southeast and East Asia.
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Transmigration
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the planned, government sponsored relocation of people from one area to another within a state territory
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Tsunamis
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very large sea waves induced by earthquakes
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