Module 4 Essentials Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
tsunami | a large wave caused by an earthquake |
one child policy | Chinese rule to control the size of families |
caste system | a way that India separated its groups of people |
Repression | the opposition to freedom |
staple crop | the most important food produced or eaten in a region |
arable | land that can grow crops |
propaganda | information given out in order to influence people (often half truths) |
monsoon | seasonal winds that often times bring extremely heavy rains |
famine | a huge food shortage often caused by extended droughts |
Himalayas | the tallest mountains in the world |
Hinduism | a religion that originated in South Asia |
corruption | the use of power for personal gain |
Buddhism | a religion that developed out of the teaching of Siddhartha Gautama |
caravan | a group of people traveling together |
outsourcing | sending tasks to be done by workers outside a company |
secular | not religious |
landlocked | cut off from direct access to the ocean |
command economy | an economy in which the central government makes all basic economic decisions |
market economy | an economy where the producers and consumers make the economic decisions |
party | a political group |
liberated | to free or get freedom |
silk road | trade routes across Asia |
overgrazing | when animals eat to the point of killing the plants |
Korean War | war between communists and democracies in Asia during the early 1950s |
Cultural Revolution | violent attempt to change the way people live in communist China in the 1960s |
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