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agroecology |
The practice of traditional,non-chemical methods of crop fertilization and the use of natural predators to control pests. |
Crops |
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Purdah |
The practice of concealing women from the eyes of nonfamily men. |
Concealing women |
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wet rice cultivation |
A prolific type of rice production that requires the plant roots to be submerged in water for part of the growing season. |
Submerged in water |
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Commodities |
Raw materials that are traded, often to other countries, for processing or manufacturing into more valuable goods. |
Traded goods |
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Horn of Africa |
The triangular peninsula that juts out from northeastern Africa below the Red Sea and wraps around the Arabian Peninsula |
Triangular |
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caste system |
A complex, ancient Hindu system for dividing society into hereditary hierarchical classes |
Hereditary |
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Partition |
The breakup following Indian independence that resulted in the establishment of Hindu India and Muslim Pakistan. |
Establishment of independence |
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Animism |
A belief system in which spirits, including those of the decreed, are thought to exist everywhere and to offer protection to those who pay their respects. |
Spirits |
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Export-led growth |
An economic developed strategy that relies heavily on the production of manufactured goods destined for sale abroad. |
Developed strategy |
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Apartheid |
A system of laws mandating racial segregation. |
Laws |
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The subregions of South Asia are |
Afghanistan and Pakistan, Himalayan country, Northwest India, Northeastern South Asia, central India, and southern south Asia. |
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The subregions of East Asia are |
China, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Mongolia, and Taiwan |
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The subregions of Sub-Saharan Africa are |
East Africa, West Africa, South Africa and Central Africa |
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The name of the empire with an important Muslim trading route and religious center was |
Mali Empire 1250-1600 C.E. |
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The first Sub-Saharan African colonial state to gain independence from Europe was |
Ghana in 1957 |
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In terms of language most Africans speak both |
Native tongue and lingua franca |
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In (year) south Asia gained independence from |
1947, Britain |
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The three great rivers of south Asia are |
Bhramaputra, Indus and Ganga |
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Two of the eight water related issues in south Asia are |
Water scarcity and flooding, glacial melting, sea level rise, rising per capita use of water, inefficient allocation and use of water, water pollution, crop failures, and food insecurity. |
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In China, are pollution is caused by the burning of |
Coal |
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In (year), the People's Republic of China was proclaimed by the Chinese Communist Party, with the president being |
1949, Mao Zedong |
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The largest and most densely populated of Japan's islands is |
Honshu |
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Name and describe a geographical issue in Sub-Saharan Africa |
Climate change, food and water are among the region's many geographical issues. Sub-Saharan Africa is vulnerable to climate change because even slight variations in temperature, rainfall, and water greatly effect farming production, therefore effect food availability. With the region's political instability and poverty issues they do not have much resilience to the effects of the climate change. |
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Name and describe a geographical issue in South Asia |
Changes in food production in South Asia are among the region's geographical issues. Food supplies and incomes of wealthy farmers have increased. Meanwhile, new agricultural technology has displaced impoverished agricultural workers, forcing them to move and seek employment in the crowded cities and live in unsanitary conditions and must purchase their food. |
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Name and describe a geographical issue in East Asia |
Overpopulation and gender roles are both geographical issues in this region particularly in China. Fear of overpopulation caused China to enforce a one-child-per-family policy in 1979. This policy has since caused a shortage of females due to the long-standing cultural preference for male children. Many parents will choose abortion or adoption if their baby is female or the female baby‘s will die during early infancy due to neglect or even infanticide. |
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Describe why China did not colonize an overseas empire |
There are a couple of reasons why China did not colonize an overseas empire. In the years of Zheng He's lavish voyages, the newly explored region's lacked the commodities that China was looking for. In addition their conflict with Mongolian nomads at that time required any extra resources available to go towards upgrading the Great Wall. |
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Describe the market reforms in China |
China's leaders enacted market reforms in the 1980‘s that changed the country's economy in four ways. One was the responsibility system which returned agricultural decision making to the farm household level. Another was allowing newly established businesses to sell their produce and goods in competitive markets. Also regional specialization which encouraged specialization rather than self-sufficiency to take advantage of regional variations. As well as the Chinese government‘s allowance of direct foreign investment in export-oriented enterprises and the sale of foreign products in China. |
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