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Covers Final Chapters East, South, Southeast Asia

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show Region includes China, Japan, Mongolia, North & South Korea; considered the most heavily populated region in the world  
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Chinese “liberation”   show
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Tectonic Activity   show
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show started construction by the Qin Dynasty and was built at various times between the 14th/mid-16th centuries  
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Imperialism in Japan   show
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show Emperor (mere figure Head) →Shoguns (military and political leaders) →daimyos (powerful lords who controlled the provinces) →Samurai (Sh&Da service warriors)  
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show occurred because of famine, taxes, restriction of Euro-trade, uprising, Opium War  
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Opium War   show
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show result of the Opium War defeat; ceded Hong Kong to the British and allowed Euro-US trade access to China thru a series of ports opened to foreign trade as a result of major powers pressure.  
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Hong Kong   show
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show introduced the concept of gunboat warfare which explains the forcible persuasion of a country to comply with orders or use of weaponry will be used until country complies; basically a rape of a country’s control/power  
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Sun Yat - Shen Nationalist Party   show
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show emerged as the leader of the communist party following the retreat known as the Long March; devised a strategy that aims at gaining support for a revolution led by China’s rural peasantry (85% of total population)  
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Taiwan   show
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show as of 2010, 1.56 billion people live in this region (mostly near coastal areas)  
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Poverty of North Korea   show
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Japanese Economic Miracle   show
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The Great Leap Forward   show
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Tibetan Plateau   show
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Major Landforms of the Region   show
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show the end of the Korean War  
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Rural peasantry   show
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show The production of fish protein in rice ponds that benefits the sustainability of the rice crop and provides fish with abundant area to prosper and people with source of protein  
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show landscapes in the region near the Gobi desert that were plowed and large scale irrigation was installed to allow for farming, similar to Soviet Union VLP  
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DMZ Zone   show
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show created by the Qin dynasty, was an overland system of trade routes that connected China to Mediterranean Europe  
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show fabric that is highly desirable and largely associated with East Asia; produced from the fibers of cocoons of silkworms, practice of sericulture(production of silk) have been practiced since 2700 BCE  
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Japan and Buddhism   show
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Kyoto   show
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Tokugawa Dynasty   show
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show launched as an attempt to restore revolutionary spirit, reeducate the privileged, and re-affirm corrupt party officials;  
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show Special Economic Zones used as important econ planning technique for China set up as carefully segregated export processing areas that offered Cheap Land and Labor, tax breaks to transnational corporations  
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First SEZ’s   show
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Chinese Migration   show
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show China has second largest economic potential…Japan has the 3rd largest economy in the world  
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Asian Tigers of the Economy   show
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Religions and Differences   show
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show philosophy based on the ethics of good governance and principles as well as importance of hard work, family life, and education does not have gods or afterlife, most widely recognized belief system in China even after years of Communist discouragement  
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World War 2 Recovery Strategies   show
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Monsoons   show
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show loosely defined region of countries that border the Pacific Ocean  
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Korean War   show
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show nickname for the Tibetan plateau  
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Major Cities   show
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show due to their successful military conquests  
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show Yangzte, Huang He, Mekong, Xi  
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show became known as the Communist organized strategic retreat covered 5,965 miles and killed 100,000 people in the process  
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show Dominant ethnic group in China  
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Dalai Lama   show
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show Tibetan plateau nomadic pastoralism rely heavily on the use of the Yak; considered the principal source of livelihood; supply milk, wool and meat. Their wool is used for the fabric of tents that is a distinctive component of the Tibetan landscape.  
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show once known as Edo Bay  
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show low birth rates and low death rates, overcrowding, longevity, aging population with no one to care for the elderly. Many adults live with their parents due to issues surrounding overcrowding  
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show a very common practice in this region is the use of Child labor which is why so much of globalization is occurring here; it is cheaper to produce a product in this region than America which is why globalization is occurring  
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show increasing trend of single-children families and tendency to spoil the child because of attention given  
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One Child Policy   show
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show former name of Taiwan  
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Domesticated Crops   show
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show a name for the Japanese caste monopolies  
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show civilizations in empirical China that were held together and expanded through the use of their capacity for holding and controlling water  
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show blanket of air pollution that consists of sulfates, nitrates, black carbon, fly ash, and many other pollutants that reduce the amount of solar radiation that can trap heat and damage forests and crops by acid rain; also causes a number of health concerns  
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Regional culture adaptation   show
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show mostly rural to urban and as of 2010, the urbanization rate for the region was 49% urbanized  
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Climate   show
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Physical Features   show
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Roof of the World   show
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show history is complex; dynasties and empires were constantly changing and started as grand centralized states but slowly lost control to regional centers and finally collapsed as a forceful new dynasty emerged.  
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Characteristics of the Cultural Revolution   show
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show romoted lots of infanticide esp. females, benefits changed population ratios, illegitimate terminations of pregnancy were used which caused big problems  
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Countries   show
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show Deccan Plateau, Mountain Rim, Peninsular Highland, Coastal Fringe  
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show 3 major river systems are the Indus, Ganges (Ganga), and the Brahmaputra  
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show The main delta is the Bengal Delta and covers a large portion of Bangladesh and India. It is the product of the major rivers: Ganges, Brahmaputra, Meghna, and their distributaries  
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show lots of variable types of climate including deserts in the northwest region and wet tropical climate patterns in the coastal and island areas, humid subtropical climate in the Mountain Rim and near the ganges  
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Monsoon patterns   show
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Bonded Labor   show
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Grameen Bank   show
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Green Revolution   show
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show social and political movement that calls on India to unite as an explicitly Hindu nation  
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show fundamentals used by the Grameen Bank and provides small loans to poor people with no credit. 96% of borrowers of microfinance are women with children  
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show distinctive part of Indias ecology that has untouched mangrove and tropical swamp forest, home to crocodiles and the largest population of Bengal tigers in the world; the word itself means beautiful forest  
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show creation of distinctive landscapes of stepped, reinforced flat agricultural fields cut into steep slopes and keeps land from environmental disaster and soil erosion; used primarily in rainy mountainous areas  
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Religions of the region   show
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Hearth Areas   show
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show A movement led by the Mughals of Turkey and took control over much of India, from 1526-1707, the rule driven by a desire to synthesize the best of many traditions that fell under his control of all the lands  
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show leader and inspirational figure of the grassroots movement that resisted British Imperial rule and the act of partitioning thru their use of peaceful protests and nonviolent boycotting  
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show a single company controls all the operations from growing tea to processing, management, transport, blending, packaging, and marketing  
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Estate Tamils   show
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show the people that work on tea plantations and experience terrible working conditions and poverty.  
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show focus has gone into adapting the agricultural system that use inventive crop systems, agricultural biodiversity, social networks, and water storage to achieve stability and survival in this region  
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show people in India who live at subsistence levels in sustainable ways that have protected and preserved the environment t  
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show large and exotic species of the region that are becoming endangered, they include rhinoceros, elephants, whales, and tigers.  
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show river systems and monsoons rains are the major threats to flooding  
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Arsenic Contamination   show
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HYV Crops   show
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Mujahideen   show
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Taliban   show
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show a terrorist network that surfaced out of the Taliban regime; responsible for many terrorist attacks including 9/11 and became the center focus of the American military operation, “enduring freedom”  
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show Delhi, Karachi, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Begaluru, Chennai, Lahore, Dhaka, Kolkata  
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Languages   show
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Informal Economy   show
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show a system of kinship groupings (called Jati) that are reinforced by language, region, and occupation; very traditional aspect of India’s cultural traditions, most jati are identified by a traditional occupation  
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Stages of Caste System   show
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show the opposite end of all caste systems that consists of members who dispose of human waste and dead animals, Gandhi led people to dissociate this term from the caste system reference…they like to be called Dalits, which means the opressed  
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Endangered species   show
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Buddhism—Location and about   show
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Charlie Wilson   show
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show a product of the declining growth of birth rates in the region; rates in many states of southern India are roughly two births per woman  
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show tribal peoples in India that represent a signifigant part of the manual labor force  
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Physiographic Regions   show
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Cumulative Causation   show
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Islam—location and about   show
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Sikhism—location and about   show
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British legacy/imperialism   show
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Jainism—location and about   show
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Raj   show
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East Pakistan   show
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show experiencing being pushed onto unproductive soils and hillsides as commercial forestry and other things limit access to their land  
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Event of Arsenic Contamination   show
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Chapter 10: Southeast Asia   show
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Mainland Countries   show
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show Indonesia, Phillipines, Malaysia, Timor-Leste, Brunei  
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High Mountains   show
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show a feature common of islands that is due to the subduction caused by tectonic plates  
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Settlement   show
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show Settlement near this area provides water for irrigation, hydroelectric development, and is considered a productive fishery  
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show Serves populations in underdeveloped countries of Laos and Cambodia; serves as a key trade network from Laos, Cambodia to China, Burma, Thailand  
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MRC   show
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Volcanoes   show
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Ring of Fire   show
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Mount Pinatubo   show
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show classification of the region is very hot and wet with equatorial convergence →← and seasonal monsoon winds that bring heavy rains; mainland tends to be drier w/ seasonal rain and islands are more variable in the year to year rainfall  
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Opium   show
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Wallace’s Line   show
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show heavy monsoon rains have meant that adaptation in the form of this practice must be used in order to grow rice; provides steep hillsides with leveled surfaces that facilitate water control and reduced erosion  
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show construction and system of ridges around fields allows them to be flooded, plowed, planted and drained before harvesting  
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show highly labor intensive, preparing and maintaining fields, transplanting seedlings, weeding and harvesting each stalk by hand. Women do most of the labor because of the detail required  
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show most significant region-wide problem affecting forests that once dominated the region; demand for specialized products grew as trade increased and the result was an increase in forest explotation to meet demands  
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show dominates the land area of the region; increase in production of the crop and its irrigation practice might have the ability to shift climatic variability in the region, slightly.  
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show includes loss of species, habitat, flooding, soil erosion, smoke and pollution as a result of forest burning  
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Conservation efforts of deforestation   show
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show dominates the religious atmosphere of the island countries and the population of Islamic believers in Indonesia outnumber those in the middle east; practices are more liberal tho  
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Hindu   show
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show religion that dominates the mainland region of Southeast Asia  
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show 12th century kingdom of Angkor Wat created vast and majestic architecturally advanced capitals  
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Christianity   show
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Royalty   show
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Crony Capitalism   show
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show leaders divert national resources for their own personal gain  
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Products of Wealth Concentration   show
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Economic Inequality   show
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Definition of Poverty Between Regions   show
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show mainland and insular regions that are not demarcated by the plate boundaries  
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show very mountainous except for major valleys of the main river systems and some coastal plains  
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Communism   show
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show recognized leader of the Communist resistance who established a government in the north city of Hanoi, Vietnam and ultimately led to the onslaught of the Vietnam War  
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show most serious global manifestation of Cold War competition; brought terrible social and environmental effects in S.E. Asia and US domestic/intl politics  
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Domino Theory   show
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show a defoliant used by U.S. forces (total douchebag move by the US) where they sprayed 5 milli acres of Vietnam that caused irreparable damage to human health and devasted ecosystems with poison  
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show fields throughout Cambodia where millions of people were killed (roughly ¼ of the Cambodian population) and buried during the Khmer Rouge regime  
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show Association of Southeast Asian Nations formed in 1967; distinctively anti-communist and provides a model for economic cooperation despite conflicts of all kinds; remains the position to stay out of any and all political situations of member nations  
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show system introduced by the Dutch that required farmers to devote 1/5th of their land/labor to export-crop production with profits going to Dutch gov’t; especially crops of coffee and sugar  
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Sea Gypsies   show
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show focus of Dutch attempt to dominate trade; islands of focus were Molucca Islands of Indonesia; Dutch restricted production of valuable spices to control trade in the region  
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show practice of slash-burn cultivation that clears land patches for future crop use  
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Pancasilia   show
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show another name for wet rice  
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show program that meant to redistribute populations to reduce civil unrest, increase food production, and further goals of regional development, national integration and spread of Indonesian language  
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Rice Bowls   show
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Economic Complementaries of [S]-IJOR   show
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Economic Complementaries of Malaysia SIJORI   show
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Economic Complementaries of Indonesia SIJORI   show
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show a term used to describe import and transshipment centers of a region  
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Busiest Port in the World   show
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JSR/Growth TRIangle   show
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show area in the highlands of Burma, Laos, and Thailand that are the centers of production for opium crops and a global/regional center for methamphetamines; provides an economic well-being to the otherwise poor area  
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show distinct urban landscape in the form of extended metropolitan regions  
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Overseas Chinese   show
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Biofuels/Palm Oil   show
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Biodiversity of Indonesia   show
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Spralty Islands   show
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EEZ’s   show
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Gender roles   show
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AFTA   show
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show rapid growth of cities have led to a mass over urbanization of the core and peripheries  
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show groups named after their geographic concentration in the sparsely populated regions of Thailand, Burma, Lao, Vietnam  
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Commercial Sex Industry   show
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show very young women are sold into bondage by rural families or smuggled into the industry via slavelike conditions and kidnappings; women might find sex work appealing and rational if background is poor rural families  
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show the practice of having more than one wife at a time, once legal in Thailand; ban imposed created the motivation for an underground economy of commercial sex  
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show married couples move into the wife’s families home  
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show married couples move into the husband’s families home  
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show spectacular capitals are examples of region’s influential kingdoms in 10th-12th centuries that were based on kinship and religious-royal bureaucracies  
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