Diversity amid Globalization Chapter 11 key terms
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- anthropogenic landscape
- one that has been heavily transformed by human activities
- autonomous region
- a region that has some independence
- Burakumin
- an outcast group of Japanese whose ancestors worked in "polluting industries such as leathercraft
- central place theory
- says that an evenly distributed rural population will give rise to a regular hierarchy of urban places with uniformely spaced larger cities surrounded by constellations of smaller cities, each, in turn, will be surrounded by smaller towns
- China proper
- the populous eastern half of China
- loess
- fine windblown material that was deposited on the loess plateau
- Confucianism
- an idea system and philosphy developed by Confucius
- desertification
- the spread of desert conditions
- diaspora
- a scattering of a particular group of people over a vast geographical area
- geomancy
- the Chinese and Korean practice of designing buildings in accordance with the spiritual powers that supposedly course through the local topography
- gross domestic product
- the market value of all final goods and services produced within a country in a given period of time
- hiragana
- quasi-alphabet that allowed the expresion of words and parts speech not easily represented by Chinese characters
- ideographic writing
- each symbol represents primarily an idea rather than a sound
- kanji
- this is known as Chinese characters in Japanese
- laissez-faire
- market freedom with little governmental control
- Mandarin
- high officials of Imperial China
- Marxism
- the communistic belief system developed by Karl Marx
- multinational corporation
- companies that operate and manufacture in more than one country
- particularism
- focusing on the unique atributes of particular places
- pollution exporting
- when companies move their dirtier factories overseas
- regulatory lakes
- these reduce the flood crest downstream because they reduce the flow of water during floods
- rust belt
- zone of decaying factories
- samurai
- the warrior class of premodern Japan
- sediment load
- suspended clay, silt, and sand in the water
- Shogunate
- a supreme military leader who theoretically remained under the emperor
- social and regional differentiation
- certain groups of people and certain portions of the country prospered while others faltered
- Special Economic Zones
- where foreign investment was welcome and state interference minimal
- spheres of influence
- where the colonial power had no formal political authority but did enjoy informal influence and tremendous economic clout
- superconurbation
- a huge zone of coalesced metropolitan areas
- swidden agriculture
- slash and burn of forests
- tectonic plates
- the basic building blocks of Earth's crust
- tonal language
- where the meaning of each basic syllable changes completely according to the pitch in which it is uttered
- tribal peoples
- they have a traditional social order based on autonomous village communities
- urban primacy
- the concentration of urban population in a single city