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chapter 30
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| archipelago | a set of closely grouped islands |
| oceania | the group of islands in the pacific. |
| high island | pacific islands created by volcanoes. |
| low island | pacific islands made of coral reefs. |
| great barrier | a 1250 mile chain of more than 2500 reefs and islands along australia northeast coast. |
| reef | under water thing were fish and other things can grow and live. |
| outback | the dry,unpopulated inland region of australia. |
| voyaging canoe | a large ship developed by pacific islandsers to sail the ocean. |
| outrigger canoe | a small ship used in the lagoons of islands where pacific islanders settled. |
| atoll | a ringlike coral island or string of small islands surrounding a lagoon. |
| bikini atoll | the isolated reef,located in the marshall islands of the center pacific. |
| mandala | in tibetan buddhism a geometric design that symbolizes the universe and aids. |
| khmer empire | a powerful empire that lasted roughly from the 9th to the 15th centuries. |
| indochina | a french colony comprised of combodia loas and vietnam. |
| vietnam war | the military conflict resulting from american involement in south vietnam to prevent its takeover by communist north vietnam. |
| asean | the association of southeast asian nations. |
| micronesia | a region in which several large cities and other areas grow together. |
| melanesia | one of the three regions in oceania. |
| polynesia | one of the three regions in oceania. |
| suubsistence activities | an activity in which a family produces only the food. |
| copra | the dried meat of cocanuts. |
| taro | a tropical asian plant with starchy roots. |
| penal colony | a place to send prisoners. |
| aboriginal people | people who migrated to australia from asia at least 40000 years ago |
| maori | the first settlers of new zealand who had migrated from polynesia more than 1000 years ago. |
| treaty of waitangi | the treaty signed by the british and mario in 1840 giving britain control over new zealand. |
| pakeha | a mario term for white people,for the new zealands of european desent. |
| assilmilation | a process whereby a minority group gradually gives up its own culture and adopts the cultre of a mijority group. |
| stolen generation | in australia what aboriginal people today call the 100000 mixed raceed children who were taken by the government and given to white families to promote assimilation. |
| lad rights act of 1976 | a secial law passed for aboriginal rights in australia giving aboriginal people the right to claim land in the territory. |
| mabo case | in australia the law case that uploaded aborininal eddie mabos land claimby which the court recognized that aboriginal people had ownedland before the british arrived. |
| pastoral leases | in australia a huge chunk of land still ownedby the government. |
| wik case | the court ruled in this case that aboriginal people could claim land held under a pastral lesase. |
| industrialization | the groth of an inustry in a counrty or a society. |
| push pull factor | a factor that causes people to leave their homes and a factor to draw people to another location. |
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