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ch.30-32
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Archipelago | a set of closely grouped islands, which sometimes form a curved arc |
| Oceania | pacific islands |
| High Island | created by volcanoes |
| Low Islands | made of coral reefs |
| Great Barrier Reef | the world's largest coral reef |
| Outback | Outback unpopulated inland region |
| Voyaging Canoes | Voyaging Canoes a large ship developed be 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 | Bikini Atoll the isolated reef located in the Marshall Islands of the Pacific, that was the site of U.S. nuclear bomb tests |
| Mandala | Mandala states organized as rings of power around a central court |
| Khmer Empire | a powerful mandala that lasted roughly from the 9th to the 15th centuries |
| Indochina | a French colony made up of Cambodia |
| Vietnam War | (1954-1975) the military conflict resulting from American involvement in South Vietnam to prevent its takeover by Communist North Vietnam |
| ASEAN | the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, and alliance that promotes economic growth and peace in the region |
| Micronesia | tiny islands |
| Melanesia | black islands |
| Polynesia | many islands |
| Subsistence Activities | Subsistence Activities activities in which a family produces only the food, clothing, and shelter they need |
| Copra | dried meat of coconuts |
| Taro | a plant with a starchy root |
| Penal Colony | a plant with a starchy root |
| Aboriginal People | people of Australia |
| Maori | people of New Zealand |
| Treaty of Waitangi | gave Britain control over New Zealand |
| Pakeha | a Maori term for white people |
| Assimilation | a process whereby a minority group gradually gives up its own culture and adopts the culture of a majority group |
| Stolen Generation | what Aboriginal people today call the 100,000 mixed-raced children who were taken by the government and given to white families to promote assimilation |
| Land Rights Act of 1976 | gave Aboriginal people the right to claim land in the Northern Territory |
| mabo case | the law case that upheld Aboriginal Eddie Mabo's land claim by which the Court recognized that Aboriginal people had owned land before the British arrived |
| Pastoral Leases | renting land from the government |
| Push pull factors | Push factor is a factor that causes people to leave their homeland while pull factors draws people to another location |
| Industrialization | Growth of industry |
| Wik Case | court ruled that Aboriginal people could claim land under a pastoral lease |
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