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Ch. 18 Vocabulary
Ch.21 Vocabulary
Geography
History
People/Cultures
100
A group of islands
What is Archipelago
100
A male ruler of an empire
What is an emperor
100
This is the reason why countries of East Asia must farm all available land
What is to feed the area's large population
100
This is why the Chinese believed they were the Middle Kingdom
What is thought they were the center of the universe
100
This is the most modern of all the East Asian countries
What is Japan
200
The average number of people living in a square mile
What is Population Density
200
The government controls a country's large industries, businesses and land, under this economic system
What is Communist
200
This is a strong influence on the climate of East Asia
What is monsoons
200
China's history is best described in this way (think vocab word)
What is dynasties
200
This is the reason why the Koreas and China have close historical ties
What is Many Chinese settled in the Korean Peninsula during ancient time
300
A country w/ many industries and a well developed economy
What is Developed country
300
The spreading of ideas from one culture to other cultures
What is cultural diffusion
300
The Huang River runs through this fertile region of East Asia
What is the North China Plain
300
This is why Japanese leaders kept their country isolated from the outside world for many hundreds of years
What is to keep the country united
300
This sparked the Korean War in 1950
What is North Korea invaded South Korea
400
A horizontal ridge made in a hillside to create farmland
What is terrace
400
identical or similar
What is homogenous
400
The North China Plain is covered with deposits of this
What is loess
400
This man sailed to Japan in 1853 and forced Japan to grant the United States trading rights
What is Matthew Perry
400
This is the best way to describe the populations of the Koreas and Japan
What is homogenous
500
A raised area of mostly level land
What is plateau
500
A group of people who share such characteristics as language, religion, and ancestry
What is an ethnic group
500
This is the reason why bamboo is grown so widely in East Asia
What is it can withstand the differences between the seasons
500
During much of Japan's history, laws were made by these people
What is shoguns
500
The most important contributions of ancient Chinese engineers were building dams, setting up irrigation systems, and this
What is digging canals