Geography Final Exam Review
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Chinese Tactics to Over take Tibetan Cultures:
Military -
Invaded with Military force
Destroyed monasteries, nunneries ad cultural institutions -
Chinese Tactics to Over take Tibetan Cultures:
Cultural destruction -
Monasteries became tourist sights
Killed Buddhist munks, baned Religious studies
Changed names of places to Chinese names. -
Chinese Tactics to Over take Tibetan Cultures:
Changed Demographies -
Chinese gaiven incentives to move to tibet: get away from the one child policy.
Tibetans became minority of their own country. -
Chinese Tactics to Over take Tibetan Cultures:
Law -
Against the Chinese law for tibetans to:
Fly the tibetan flag
Protest chinese occupation
shouting free tibet -
Chinese Tactics to Over take Tibetan Cultures:
Enviromental change - Desertification, Deforestation, Dam construction, endangered species, Nuclear waste
- Tibetan Response
- many Tibetans have fled tibet and risked their lives, many refugees around
- Chinese Response
- The Chinese don't understand why the tibetans don't like them being there...they feel as though they have liberated tibet.
- Dahli lama and Non-violent strategies
- Tenzin Gyato-14th dahli Lama traveled 40 years raising awareness of tibetan issues. Uses education vs weapons to attract attention and pressure towards the Chinese.
- What are the overall effects of Tibetan situation?
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Tibetan Buddhism has spread around the globe.
Tibet has emerged as a global cause, especially because of the peaceful, mystical, and spiritual image that “Tibet†has - Where is Deforestation happening most rapidly?
- equatorial countries especially Southeast Asia
- What are some causes and effects of Deforestation?
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Over farming the land
Lack of rainfall
Loss of species
Loss of traditional habitats - Who are the "Ecology Monks of Thailand"?
- Its a formation of social movements and alliances who protect forests. They use buddhist teachings to help local people solve social problems.
- What was the problem Giew Muang tried to solve?
- Deforestation
- How did Giew Muang bring local, buddhist, and governmental beliefs to save the community forest in his village?
- First he educated the local people...then applied the buddhist beliefs of all living things
- What was the Tree Ordination Ceremony in 1990?
- It was how the Buddhist marked the forests as sacred and belonging to the communites.
- Define Ecotourism
- enviromentally oriented tourism designed to protect the enviroment sometimes to offer economic opportunities to the local people.
- Define Xenophobia
- A hate or fear of foreigners
- What were the grand Canals...and why were they built?
- Sui dynasty built the canals to link the northern china to the south for trade purposes.
- What was the Opium Wars and who fought them?
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Hong Kong VS British...british provoked china into a military response by insisting on being able to trade opium.
Hong Kong was turned over to the British because they lost. - What was the Treaty of Nanking?
- When Hong kong was turned over to the British because of the loss of the Opium Wars.
- What was the great Leap forward?
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Mao Zedong launched a bold movement to accelerate the pace of economic growth.
Industrialization It caused malnutrition and starvation. - What is the "one child policy"
- Chinese can only have one kid unless they moved to tibet
- Define Geomancy
- belief that physical attributes of places can be analyzed and manipulated to improve the flow of cosmic energy.
- what is Juche
- Kim II sungs vision for north korea. Powerful country but a very impoverished country
- What is the Wallace Line
- A deep ocean trench which divides two major biogeographical zones of Asia and Australia.
- What was the Domino Theory?
- Communist takeover of South Vietnam would further lead to spreading communist beliefs.
- What were some of the Ecological consequences of the Vietnam War
- many vietnamese soldiers died, much less than americans, harmful defoliants were sprayed that poisoned ecosystems.
- Who were the Khmer Rouge
- they were communist revolutionaries who destroyed cities and killed many people they wanted to isolate themselves.
- What happened in Cambodia in 1975-79
- A quarter of the camodian population died after the vietnamese charged in and installed a new government.
- What were three types of migration in southeast asia
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1. flowing from Rural areas into cities
2. flowing from war zones to safe zones
3. resettlement from rural to urban - Why did opium become a lower source for thailand
- Government programs persuaded the country to grow subsitute products such as tobacco.
- Where is the Golden Triangle
- Burma, Laos, Thailand (centers in this region) inside this triangle the drug industry is taking over.
- Where are the largest heroin markets
- United States, Europe, Thailand, Australia
- What was the Raj
- Focus on British imperial shifted from trade and territorial control to social reform and cultural imperialism.
- What did the Raj bring to southeast asia
- Plantations and western industrial developments.
- What was the importance of tea?
- it was a mild drug in high demand, cultivated in China and japan. it became a catalyst of social, economic and political change.
- Who was Thomas Lipton
- He was a pioneer of vertical economic integration he cut the cost of tea by 35% to europeans by gaining control of the market.