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Ch. 20 Sect. 1 Vocab
East Asia Today
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |