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59 Cards in this Set
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Contagious diffusion
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When a cultural trend is transmitted from person to person from an original source to numerous others, similar to a virus.
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Relocation Diffusion
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When a person migrates from their home and shares their culture with a new location.
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Chinese 'Reunification'
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-When China was officially brought under one state in 1928
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Salafism
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Puritanical, "back to the roots/renewal" movements
-Believe society has gone astray from the "true path" -Basically fundamentalists |
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Vietnam's core areas
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Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City
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China's adherence to
socialist doctrine |
-They like communism
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Main Islands of Japan
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-Hokkaido
-Honshu (biggest) -Shikoku -Kyushu |
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Domino theory
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A theory prominent from the 1950s to the 1980s, that speculated that if one state in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect.
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Origin of today's
Singapore |
-It was Japanese, then a crown colony of Britain, then it became independent
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Outcome of the Meiji restoration in Japan
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-Restored Japan to practical imperial rule
-Enormous social and political changes -Responsible for Japan as a modernized nation |
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2 Problems for Japan's
future development |
-Aging population
- i dunno |
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The engine of Vietnams economic success
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-Enterprises in the private sector
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What is the Koran?
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The holy book of Islam
-believed to be written by mohammad |
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Khmer Rouge Urban
Development Policy |
-Probably bad.
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Centrifugal forces in
India |
-The caste system
-Language -Religion |
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River Basin Beijing is
located in |
-The Hai river basin
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Main difference between
Chinese Communist development strategy and that of Soviet Russia |
-China focused on agriculture more than Rus.
-The USSR was a multiethnic state -Little foreign investment in USSR - China Government destroyed private savings. Much capital flight.-Russia -USSR/Rus has an aging population, declining life expectancy -Export oriented growth was not a strategy |
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What is Loess
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a loosely compacted yellowish-gray deposit of windblown sediment of which extensive deposits occur
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Challenges to China’s future as under the Communist Party in its present boundaries.
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-Freedoms vs. riches
-Avoiding the Russian experience -Democracy as a threat |
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What is an emerging economy
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-An economy that is progressing to be more advanced, usually by means of rapid growth and industrialization.
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Chinese demographic trends since the 70's
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-Population is getting older.
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A transportation innovation that facilitated globalization.
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-Shipping containers?
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Basic characteristics of China’s physiographic provinces.
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-Eastern basins and highlands
-Plateau Steppe of Mongolia -Desert basins and ranges of Xinjiang -Qinghai Xizang high plateaus and mountains |
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Territorial Sea
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The water 12 nautical miles (13.8 real miles) away from the base of a coastal state.
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Location of Iraq’s oil with respect to ethnic groups.
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-The Kurds are in there somewhere
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Monsoon
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A seasonal prevailing wind in the region of South and Southeast Asia. Brings lots of rain in wet season.
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Indo-European languages in South Asia.
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-Hindi?
-Languages are similar. -Origin theories are different |
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Consequences of the Great Leap Forward in China.
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-Widespread waste of resources
-Famine in 1960-61 -Over 50 million deaths |
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Major religious ideology and Indian civilization.
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Hinduism, caste system.
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Distribution (location) of Pakistan’s population.
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-Most are towards the east side of the country.
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Major occupation of
Indians. |
-low income jobs
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Islam in South Asia
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-Pakistan split to become an Islamic country
-2nd largest religion in india |
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Characteristics of Urban India
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-Still gross
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The occupation of most Chinese people is in this sector of the economy.
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-Agriculture
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Basic geography of agriculture in China.
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-Terraced fields
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Characteristics of the Four Modernizations.
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-Innovations designed to increase agriculture, industry, national defense, and science and technology in China.
-Tried to promote a modernized, happy China -Rebuilt educational institutions -Return of the intellectuals |
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Internal migration in
China. |
-Chinese people from rural areas will (illegally) come to the city to work in factories and make money
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China's culture hearth
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-By Beijing
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Major pre-communist
political party in China |
-The Chinese Nationalist party
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Chinese dynasty that had the greatest areal extent
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-The Qing (Manchu) dynasty
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Major sectarian divisions of Muslims
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-Sunni
-Shia- or "The people of the house" -believe that Ali should've been next -Sufisim- or "Charismatic Islam" -Salafism- Usually part of Sunni- Fundamentalist groups.
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String of pearls
hypothesis |
-China is trying to claim islands in the Indian ocean to gain more control over that area
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Countries of the Arabian Peninsula
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-Bahrain
-Kuwait -Oman -Yemen -Qatar -United Arab Emirates -Saudi Arabia |
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Chinese reform and
private property |
-In the 80's communism relaxed, let long term leases of land from the township happen.
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Major reason for the creation of most of today’s states of the Middle East.
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-oil?
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What makes the Middle East a region?
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-Semi stringed together things
-paradoxical region |
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World distribution of Muslims
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-1-1.8 billion muslims
-60% in asia -20% in Middle East and North Africa |
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Largest Muslim country
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Indonesia
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Renfrew hypothesis
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-That the Indo-European languages originated in Anatolia (Turkey)
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Members of the Trans-Pacific Partnership
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Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the
United States, and Vietnam. |
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Petroleum have-nots in NASWA
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-derp.
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Pakistan's neighbors
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-China
-Afghanistan -India |
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Turkey’s use of political and economic power.
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-to get things.
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What is the Maghreb?
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-The countries in the northwest part of Africa
-Formerly the Berber states -Mauritania -Algeria -Libya -Morocco -Tunisia |
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Indian Ocean trade
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-China wants in
-India doesn't like China |
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Jesus and Mohammed in the Koran.
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-Jesus is mentioned more in the Koran.
-He is just seen as another prophet |
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Chinese internal
colonization. |
-They made people from West China, islands, etc part of their empire.
Ex. Tibetans |
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Choke point
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A point of congestion or blockage.
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The temporal and spatial process of Chinese imperial expansion similar to which other empire(s)?
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-Russian, European, Western
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