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