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37 Cards in this Set
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Chinese Tactics to Over take Tibetan Cultures:
Military |
Invaded with Military force
Destroyed monasteries, nunneries ad cultural institutions |
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Chinese Tactics to Over take Tibetan Cultures:
Cultural destruction |
Monasteries became tourist sights
Killed Buddhist munks, baned Religious studies Changed names of places to Chinese names. |
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Chinese Tactics to Over take Tibetan Cultures:
Changed Demographies |
Chinese gaiven incentives to move to tibet: get away from the one child policy.
Tibetans became minority of their own country. |
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Chinese Tactics to Over take Tibetan Cultures:
Law |
Against the Chinese law for tibetans to:
Fly the tibetan flag Protest chinese occupation shouting free tibet |
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Chinese Tactics to Over take Tibetan Cultures:
Enviromental change |
Desertification, Deforestation, Dam construction, endangered species, Nuclear waste
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Tibetan Response
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many Tibetans have fled tibet and risked their lives, many refugees around
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Chinese Response
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The Chinese don't understand why the tibetans don't like them being there...they feel as though they have liberated tibet.
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Dahli lama and Non-violent strategies
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Tenzin Gyato-14th dahli Lama traveled 40 years raising awareness of tibetan issues. Uses education vs weapons to attract attention and pressure towards the Chinese.
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What are the overall effects of Tibetan situation?
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Tibetan Buddhism has spread around the globe.
Tibet has emerged as a global cause, especially because of the peaceful, mystical, and spiritual image that “Tibet” has |
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Where is Deforestation happening most rapidly?
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equatorial countries especially Southeast Asia
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What are some causes and effects of Deforestation?
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Over farming the land
Lack of rainfall Loss of species Loss of traditional habitats |
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Who are the "Ecology Monks of Thailand"?
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Its a formation of social movements and alliances who protect forests. They use buddhist teachings to help local people solve social problems.
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What was the problem Giew Muang tried to solve?
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Deforestation
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How did Giew Muang bring local, buddhist, and governmental beliefs to save the community forest in his village?
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First he educated the local people...then applied the buddhist beliefs of all living things
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What was the Tree Ordination Ceremony in 1990?
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It was how the Buddhist marked the forests as sacred and belonging to the communites.
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Define Ecotourism
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enviromentally oriented tourism designed to protect the enviroment sometimes to offer economic opportunities to the local people.
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Define Xenophobia
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A hate or fear of foreigners
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What were the grand Canals...and why were they built?
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Sui dynasty built the canals to link the northern china to the south for trade purposes.
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What was the Opium Wars and who fought them?
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Hong Kong VS British...british provoked china into a military response by insisting on being able to trade opium.
Hong Kong was turned over to the British because they lost. |
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What was the Treaty of Nanking?
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When Hong kong was turned over to the British because of the loss of the Opium Wars.
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What was the great Leap forward?
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Mao Zedong launched a bold movement to accelerate the pace of economic growth.
Industrialization It caused malnutrition and starvation. |
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What is the "one child policy"
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Chinese can only have one kid unless they moved to tibet
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Define Geomancy
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belief that physical attributes of places can be analyzed and manipulated to improve the flow of cosmic energy.
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what is Juche
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Kim II sungs vision for north korea. Powerful country but a very impoverished country
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What is the Wallace Line
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A deep ocean trench which divides two major biogeographical zones of Asia and Australia.
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What was the Domino Theory?
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Communist takeover of South Vietnam would further lead to spreading communist beliefs.
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What were some of the Ecological consequences of the Vietnam War
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many vietnamese soldiers died, much less than americans, harmful defoliants were sprayed that poisoned ecosystems.
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Who were the Khmer Rouge
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they were communist revolutionaries who destroyed cities and killed many people they wanted to isolate themselves.
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What happened in Cambodia in 1975-79
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A quarter of the camodian population died after the vietnamese charged in and installed a new government.
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What were three types of migration in southeast asia
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1. flowing from Rural areas into cities
2. flowing from war zones to safe zones 3. resettlement from rural to urban |
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Why did opium become a lower source for thailand
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Government programs persuaded the country to grow subsitute products such as tobacco.
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Where is the Golden Triangle
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Burma, Laos, Thailand (centers in this region) inside this triangle the drug industry is taking over.
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Where are the largest heroin markets
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United States, Europe, Thailand, Australia
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What was the Raj
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Focus on British imperial shifted from trade and territorial control to social reform and cultural imperialism.
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What did the Raj bring to southeast asia
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Plantations and western industrial developments.
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What was the importance of tea?
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it was a mild drug in high demand, cultivated in China and japan. it became a catalyst of social, economic and political change.
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Who was Thomas Lipton
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He was a pioneer of vertical economic integration he cut the cost of tea by 35% to europeans by gaining control of the market.
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