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Ch. 20 Sect. 1 Vocab
East Asia Today
Term | Definition |
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meditation | the practice of using concentration to quiet and control thoughts |
animism | a belief that everything, including objects in nature, has a soul |
polytheism | the belief in more than one god |
monotheism | a belief in one god |
porcelain | a type of strong ceramic pottery |
movable type | a printing invention in which individual characters can be moved to create different pages of text |
multinational corporation | a large company based in one country that establishes branches in several others |
economic globalization | the practice of economic activities being conducted across national borders |
anime | a style of animation or cartoon developed in Japan |
manga | a type of Japanese comic book |
bullet train | a train that travels more than 125 miles per hour, and is shaped like a bullet |
magnetic levitation | type of train that rides on a cushion of air over tracks laid with many powerful magnets |