Chapter 8 Key Term Quiz

South East Asia
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An area where waters drains from and flows into a river or a number of tributaries.

The region that includes Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam.

An organized killing of a particular ethnic group.

A group of people living outside of their homeland.

Refers to the movement from a more centralized form of economy to a freer, market-based economy.

An austere form of Sunni fundamentalism in the Islam religion that is heavily promoted by Saudi Arabia.

A form of Buddhism based on the oldest known records of Buddha's teaching. Dominant form of Buddhism in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Thailand.

An forested area in the tropics marked by substantial rainfall.

The belief that non-human entities have spirits, prominent among hunter-gatherers yet evolving into subsequent cultures.

Name given to a series of innovations that were especially prominent from the late 1960s to the 1970s, that increased agriculture production through new high-yielding varieties of crops, irrigation, and the use pesticides and fertilizers.

The recreation of a transnational authority guided by Islamic principles and is a long held belief of many Sunni fundamentalists.

The systemic variation in sea temperature in the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of South America, typically in late December, that has an impact on the weather of the region and across other regions of the world.

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