Afro-Asian Studies
Vocabulary
Terms
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- Hwang Ho
- refers to the Yellow River which is sometime's called China's Sorrow because of disastrous floods.
- monsoon
- seasonal winds
- Middle Kingdom
- refers to China because the people believed that their land stood between heaven and earth.
- terracing
- cutting into hillsides to provide a series of steps of level land for farming. eg. The Red Basin near Chingtu
- House of Snow
- refers to the Himalaya Mountains
- Peking
- Northern Capital is often called the Paris of the east because of its natural beauty and fine architecture
- delta
- a piece of land formed by the deposit of silt at the mouth or end of a river. eg. The Hsi, or West River, empties into the South China Sea, and the great port city of Canton is located at its mouth
- Khan
- title of a ruler. eg. Ghengis Khan, the Mongol ruler
- plateau
- high, flat land. eg. The Roof of the World refers to the Tibetan plateau.
- floating farms
- rafts covered with soil near river edges
- Cathay
- referred to the northern area of China Proper and was so named by Marco Polo.
- cells
- communist groups
- archipelago
- a grouping of islands. eg. Japan
- communism
- an economic system whereby the means of production and distribution are owned and managed by the government, and the goods produced are shared by all the citizens
- Manchu
- referred to the invaders from Manchuria (today in northeastern China)
- ideograph
- a Chinese written character which sometimes looks like a picture representing an idea
- commune
- a grouping of collective farms
- Mandarin
- the Chinese language of the educated.