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25771 SE Asia
Vocabulary for Unit 10
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| archipelago | a set of closely grouped islands |
| Oceania | the group of islands in the Pacific, including Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. |
| high island | Pacific islands created by volcanoes |
| low island | Pcaific Ilands made of coral reefs |
| Great Barrier Reef | a 1,250-mile chain of more than 2, 500 reefs and islands along Australia's northeast coast, containing some 400 species of coral |
| outback | the dry, unpopulated inland region of Australia |
| voyaging canoe | a large ship developed by Pacific Islanders 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 Central Pacific that was the site of U.S. nuclear bomb tests, consequently contaminating the atoll with high levels of radiation and driving its inhabitants away |
| mandala | a state organized as a ring of power around a central court, which often changed in size over time, and which was used intead of borders in early southeast Asian states |
| Khmer Emoire | a powerful empire that lasted roughly from the 9th to 15th centuries in what is now Cambodia |
| Indochina | a French colony comprised of Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam; it won independence from France in 1954 |
| Vietnam War | the military conflict resulting from American involvemnt in South Vietnam to prevent its takeover by Communist North Vietnam |
| ASEAN | the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, an alliance that promotes economic growth and peace in the region |
| Micronesia | one of three regions in Oceania, meaning "tiny isalnds" |
| Melanesia | a region in Oceania meaning "black islands" |
| Polynesia | one of three regions in Oceania, meaning "many isloands" |
| subsistence activities | an activity in which a family produces only the food, clothing, and shelter they themselves need |
| copra | the dried meat of coconuts |
| taro | a tropical Asian with a starchy root, which can be eaten as a boiled vegetable or made into breads, puddings, or a paste called poi |
| penal colony | a place to send prisoners |
| Aboriginal people | poeple who migrated to Australia from Asia at least 40,000 yearsd again; the original settlers of the island |
| Maori | the first settlers of New Zealand, who had migrated from Polynesia more than 1,000 years ago |
| Treaty of Waitangi | a treaty signed by the British and Maori in 1840 giving British control over New Zealand |
| pakeha | a Maori term for white people, for the New Zealand of European descent |
| assimilation | a process whereby a minority group gradually gives up its own culture and adopts the culture of a majority group |
| Stolen Generation | in Australia, what aboriginal people today call the 100,000 mixed race children who were taken by the government and given to white families to promote assimilation |
| Land rights Act of 1976 | a special law passed for aboriginal people in australia givning the Aboriginal people the righ tto claim land in the Northern Territory |
| Mabo Case | in Australia, the law case that upheld aboriginal Eddie, Mabo's land claim by which the court recongnized that Aboriginal people had owned land before the British arrived |
| pastoral leases | in Australia, a huge chunk of land still owned by the government; ranchers take out leases, renting the land from government |
| Wik Case | in Australia, the court ruled in this case that Aborginal people could claim land held under a pastoral lease |
| industrialization | the growth of industry in a country or a society |
| push-pull factors | a factor that cuses people to leave their homes and move to a new location or draws people to move to a location |
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