Government in East Asia
Electronic goods are the main export for this country
What is Thailand ?
A political and social movement to strengthen bonds between people of African descent
What is Pan-Africanism ?
A system of beliefs about the world and how to live.
What is philosophy ?
Ethnic and religious conflicts plague a number of African nations.. This turmoil holds back
What is economic growth ?
A flat, fan-shaped plain formed on a seabed where a river deposits material over many years.
What is a delta ?
A government that owns all property and makes all economic decisions.
What is communism ?
This is another name for a monarchy headed by a sultan
What is a sultanate ?
The idea that refers to the devotion that children should have for their parents
What is filial piety ?
The loss of forest cover in a region that results from trees being destroyed faster than they can grow back
What is deforestation ?
Contributes to the increasing drought that Africans in the Sahel and other regions are facing.
What is Climate change ?
Two countries in Southeast Asia that have productive command economies
What is Vietnam and Laos ?
Austronesians
Who were the first group to migrate to Southeast Asia around 2000 BCE from surrounding islands into the Malay Peninsula ?
This helped spread various religions throughout Southeast Asia
What is trade ?
Change from arable land to desert
What is desertification ?
Peninsula in Southeast Asia...includes the countries of Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos Thailand, and Vietnam, as well as the Malay Peninsula
What is Indochina ?
He became leader of the Chinese Communist Party in 2012 and president of China in 2013.
Who is Xi Jinping ?
Countries in Southeast Asia rely heavily on this in order to enhance their economies.
What is exports ?
Buddhism,
Confucianism, and Daoism were brought to Vietnam around 100 BCE by these people
Who were the Chinese ?
Major political challenge in several parts of Africa is the rise of
What is Islamist terrorism ?
This country has more than 100 active volcanoes.
What is Indonesia ?
War from 1964 to 1975 in which the U.S. military supported South Vietnam in its fight to remain independent from communism
What was the Vietnam War ?
The system of white ruling class that controlled the government to protect their power, established a system of legal separation and oppression of non-white South Africans.
What is Apartheid ?
This is a group of people who share a distinct culture, language, and identity
What is an ethnic group ?
Two challenges of Southeast Asia today
What is over population growth and Climate change ?
These form at the mouths of rivers where fertile sediment washes down from the mountains is deposited.
What are river deltas ?