Rueschhoff Geography - Asia Vocabulary
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14cladel on November 8, 2010
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Class of 2015 STA, STA Class of 2015
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 paddy | wet lands where rice is grown |
| intensive agriculture | agriculture that uses a lot of human labor |
| double cropping | two crops are harvested each year from the same plot of land |
| aquaculture | raising and harvesting fish and marine life in ponds or other bodies of water |
| puppet government | a government controlled by outside forces |
| communes | agricultural communities that organized farming and planned local public services |
| pictograms | simple pictures of the ideas they represent |
| calligraphy | artistic handwriting or lettering |
| martial law | military rule |
| Chishima (Oyashio) Current | a cold current from the north that cools summers in Japan |
| Japan (Kuroshio) Current | brings moist marine air to southern Japan |
| tsunamis | large sea waves |
| flyway | a migration route for birds |
| Meiji Restoration | political revolution in which a group of samurai demanding reforms overthrew the last shogun and restored the power of the emperor (meiji- enlightened rule) |
| Diet | an elected law-making body |
| shogun | a powerful warlord |
| samurai | professional warriors that protected the daiymo |
| annex | to formally join an area to a country |
| armistice | truce |
| demilitarized zone (DMZ) | the strip of land along the truce line between the N. and S. Korean forces during the Korean War |
| subsidies | financial support |
| work ethic | belief that work itself has moral value |
| export economy | goods are produced mainly for export rather than domestic use |
| trade surplus | a country exports more than it imports |
| urban agglomeration | a densely populated region surrounding a central city |
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