South East Asia Chapter 13 – Flashcards
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Khmer Rouge
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literally " Red (or communist) Cambodians" this left-wing insurgent group led by French=educated Marxist rebelled against the royal Cambodian government in the early 1960's and again in a peasants' revolt in 1967.
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lingua France
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an agreed-upon common language to facilitate communication on specific topics such as international business, politics, sports, or entertainment.
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Animism
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A wide variety of tribal religions that generally focuses on nature's spirits and human ancestors
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Bumiputra
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Literally "sons of the soil" the name given to the native Malay, who are given preference for jobs and schooling by the Malaysian government
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Ramayana
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One of the two main epic poems of the Hindu religion
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Tsunami
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Very large sea waves induced by earthquakes
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Shifted cultivators
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Migrants, with or without agricultural experience, who are transplanted by the government relocation schemes
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ASEAN
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An international organization linking together the ten most important countries of southwest Asia
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Typhoon
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The name given to tropical hurricanes in the western Pacific
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Transmigration
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The relocation of a nations population from one location to another within its national territory
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Domino Theory
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A US geopolitical policy of the 1960's and 1970's that stemmed from the assumption that if Vietnam fell to the communist, the rest of southeast Asia would soon fallow.
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Golden triangle
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An area of northern Thailand, Burma, and Laos that is known as a major source region for heroin and is plugged into the global trade.
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crony capitalism
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A system in which close friends of a political leader are either legally or illegally given business advantages in return for their political support
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Entrepot
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A city and port that specializes in the transshipment of goods
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Swidden
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Also called "shifting cultivation" or "slash-and-burn agriculture"; a form of cultivation in which forests or brushy plots are cleaned of vegetation, burned, then planted to crops, only to be abandoned a few years later as soil fertility declines.
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Rugged terrain on the mainland and thousands of islands
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best describes the physical geography of Southeast Asia
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A tsunami
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was the environmental hazard that caused tremendous loss of life and property in December 2004
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Deforestation
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is the most prevalent environmental damage in southeast Asia
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Tropical Humid
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is the climate type that dominates Southeast Asia
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Swidden
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Is the most common agriculture in the uplands of southeast Asia
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Brunei, Singapore, and Thailand
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are all below replacement level, based on their TFR
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European colonists, Muslim merchants, and immigrants from China and South Asia
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Are all groups of foreign influences on Southeast Asia
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What attracted the earliest Europeans (the Portuguese) to southeast Asia?
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Nutmeg and cloves
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The Netherlands
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Became the dominant Colonial European dominate power in Southeast Asia
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The Philippines
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Was a colony of the United States from 1898 till 1946
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Which country of southeast Asia had its culture most profoundly changed by European colonization?
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The Philippines, by the Spanish
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What was the name of the theory that held that if Vietnam fell to communists, so would neighboring countries and perhaps all of southeast Asia?
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The Domino Theory
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What is ASEAN's core mission?
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To prevent countries from outside southeast Asia from gaining undue influence in the region.
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What southeast Asian countries have had the greatest development successes in the region?
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Singapore and Malaysia
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What is the nature of the correlation between economic and social indicators in southeast Asia?
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Countries with favorable economic indicators tend to have favorable social indicators.
