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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Gorbachev | (cold war) soviet leader who started to give more economic and political freedoms to the soviet union -> calliopes of the soviet union and cold war |
| czar | emperor -> peter the great was ____ of russia from 1682-1725 tried to empathize science and technology |
| Lenin | leader of communist party; took control of the government |
| Stalin | Leader of the soviet union during WWII wanted to spread communism; fought against the german natiz |
| Valdimir Putin | russian president (2000) |
| outback | an unpopulated island of austrilla |
| Lagoon | Salt water separated from the sea by coral reefs |
| Artesian Wells | a deep well where water is pumped upward |
| Krakota | island that was blown up when a volcano; erupted and created huge tsunamis |
| rabbits in Austrila | no noatural predators=infested austrilla and ate all their crops; still struggling with this issue |
| low lands | formed by coral reefs |
| high lands | formed by volcanos; have soil and support agriculture |
| Atoll | island with lagoon in the middle |
| Vietnam war | US became involved; over communism (Book has more details) |
| Major food source in Vietnam | rice |
| europeans settlement of Australia | colonized in 1788 as a place to send prisoners; gave brittan more pacific naval bases; had violent conflicts w/ many people came |
| good effects of tourism in Oceania | spend money= supporting infrastructure |
| bad effects of tourism in Oceania | require hotels, streets, roads and vehicles; also a threat to environment and traditional way of life |
| Aborigines | orignal inhabitants of Australia; lived off of hunting gathering and did not harm their land |
| Population location of Australia | along the (east) coast |
| Devolpment of Antarctica | used for scientific research; governed by the UN (united nations) |
| Religous influrences in SE Asia | Spanish->christianity to Philipense missioonaries and colonism-> christianity widely spreading |
| North Korea | CCC- Communism, Command Economy, China= ally |
| South Korea | DDU- Democratic, Demand Economy, US= ally |
| Isolationism in china | mountains |
| Development of Japan | lack of natural resources; industrial leader of East Asia |
| Imperialism | authority of an empire or nation over forge in countries |
| Spheres of influence in China | method of dividing forigen countries |
| 3 gorges dam | dam began in the late 20th century to help control flooding, generate power and allow ships to sail further into china |
| Japanese homes | small; one or 2 rooms; build up and not out/wide to take up less space |
| Tiananmen Square | fight broke out and government tried to hide it |
| Ring of Fire | chain of volcanoes that line the Pacific Ocean |
| Chinese Economic Zones | developed by government to increase foreign trade |
| Population location in China and Japan | east coast |
| Hong Kong | thriving trade; reunited with china in 1997 |
| Cyclone | violent storm w/ fierce winds and heavy rain; most extreme weather pattern of South Asia |
| Tsunami | Very destructive; many in Japan; giant ocean waves caused by underwater earthquakes or volcanic eruption |
| Pacific Rim | economic and social region |
| Daoism | THE WAY harmony; government should not get involved |
| Confucianism | importance of oder, education and higharcy in a well ordered society |
| Buddism | enlightment; 4 noble truths; 8 fold path; nirvana; rebirth |
| Economic Triggers | strong economy with cheap labor; high technology and exports |
| Typhoons | tropical storm that occurs in the Western Pacific |
| India Modern Problems | overpopulation- lack of basic needs; religion and ethnic division |
| Kashmir | territory where Pakistan and India have fought many wars |
| Division of South Asia after it split up | religious and ethnic groups |
| why is the indus river important to Pakistan | good soil; brings water throughout region; very HOLY; very polluted with daed organisms; irrigation |
| Indo-Gangetic Plain | most densely populated area where most people live; lots of rain and good soil |
| Bangladesh | young country; believes in large families; broke away from Pakistan; poor, muslim, large population |
| Cyclone of 1970 | created Bangladesh; killed hundreds of thousands of people; 80% of rice was gone; 70% of ships were wrecked |
| Winter Monsoons | very dry winds; south west winds |
| Summer Monsoons | very wet north east winds |
| Population density in South Asia and where do they live | near the east coast and along the ganges river; info gangetic plain |
| caste system | social classes; certain moral duty, dharma |
| Brahmans | priest and scholars |
| Kshathyas | rulers and warriors |
| Sudras | artisans and labors |
| Vaisyas | farmers and merchants |
| Religious Conflict in South Asia | Pakistan(islam) and India(Hinduism) don't get along |
| Himalayan Mountians | Mountain range including mt. Everest |
| Hinduism | Belief in many gods; reincarnation; karma; caste system |
| Aswan high Dam | created to stop flooding of the nile river in Egypt and Sudan gives farmers regular supply of water |
| ancestor worship | worship sports of relatives from the past |
| animism | non human organisms have sports; souls |
| aids | hiv disease that plagues Africa |
| desertification | an expansion of dry expansion into most area that are next to deserts |
| Africas physical geography | irregular coastline- low then flattens; natural harbors |
| F.W. de Klerk | president of apartheid in South Africa |
| Berlin Conference | determined by european nations on how african countries should be divided; no african leaders could attend; didn't separate ethnic groups |
| Culture of North Africa | simmular to SW Asia |
| African rivers | can't be used bc of caderacks |
| farming in africa | not done well; methods that ruin soil and main part of economy |
| European colonization of Africa | natural resources |
| factors making development in african counties difficult | lack of infustrucure |
| escarpment | a steep slope with nearly flat plateau onto |
| nigeria | oil and help from other countries |
| nelson mandela | south african leader |
| sahara | largest desert in the world; streches from atlantic to red sea |
| the sahel | fertil land south of sahara; slowly getting smaller due to overarming |
| rift valleys | land that sanks to form long thin valleys or continental plates pulled apart |
| wadi | dry riverbed |
| natural resources in SW asia | oil |
| bedouins | nomadic desert peole |
| jerusalem | heart of 3 major religions |
| major religions of SW Asia | Islam, Judaism, Christianity |
| Creation of Israel after WWII | Jewish got israel and kicked out the palatines |
| fertil cressent | valley around tigris and euphrates river and wraps along the nile river |
| muhammed | messenger of islam; prophet |
| kurds | stateless nation |
| Zionism | the movement of giving jews a homeland |
| climate regions of SW Asia | largest dessert(arid) semiarid and Mediterranean along the coast |
| Theocracy | governed based on religion |
| dictatorship | country led by a dictator or someone with complete rule over a country |
| areal sea | begining to shrink bc officials are using it for irrigation of cotton fields and kara kum canal |
| on going tensions in russia | eastern Europe; split not based on religion |
| Collapse of the USSR | Gorbachev |
| result of the 1917 revolution russia | communism |
| location of natural resources russi | petrulium in the caspian; leading in oil and natural gas |
| religious distribution russia | book not split by religions when deciding land |
| Caucasus mountains | mountain range between black sea and caspian sea |
| russias access to the Mediterranean | black sea |
| russias population distribution | west most people live |
| communism | government holds most of the political power and means of production |
| USSR becoming republics | 1922 communist party organized different groups of people |
| climate regions russia | humid continental and subartic climates; effect of distance from the sea- continentality= amount of precipitation and temp |
| vegetation regions russia | tundra forest steepe- chromosome(soil) dessert- kara kum and kyzyl kum |
| Ural Mountains | mountain range separating eroupe and asia |
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