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Asia Unit Test
Question | Answer |
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Hinduism: Vedas | a set of sacred texts |
Hinduism: Caste system | people were born into a level of society that determined their jobs and social class |
Hinduism: untouchables | lowest caste, people who are considered unclean, live separate from other castes |
Hinduism: Atman | the part of Brahman, or universal soul, that is in everyone and everything |
Hinduism: Brahma | Creator God |
Hinduism: Vishnu | Preserver God |
Hinduism: Shiva | Destroyer God |
Hinduism: samsara | the belief in the cycle of birth, life, death and rebirth |
Hinduism: Dharma | duty, doing your responsibilities in life |
Hinduism: karma | the belief that what you do in this life determines how good your next life is (including your caste) |
Hinduism: moksha | like enlightenment, the freedom from samsara (the cycle of birth, life, death and rebirth)because you have learned all the lessons that life has to teach you |
reincarnation | the belief that when someone dies, he or she will be born again (both Hindus and Buddhists believe this) |
"awakened one" | Buddah |
Siddhartha Gautama | Prince who became Buddah |
Buddhism: Goal | enlightenment, |
Buddhism: Four Noble Truths | 1. life is suffering, 2. suffering is caused by desire, 3. suffering is ended when you stop wanting things like power, 4. to stop wanting things follow the eight fold path |
Buddhism: Eightfold Path | 1 know the truth, 2 resist evil, 3 don't say anything to hurt others 4 respect life, property, & morality 5 work at a job that does not injure others 6 try to free your mind from evil 7 be in control of your feelings & thoughts 8 practice concentration |
Daoism: How is happiness achieved? | Living in harmony with nature |
Laozi | founder of Daoism |
Dao De Jing | book that preached a return to a simple and natural way of living |
Dao | "the way", the force that gives order to the universe |
Daoism: yin and yang | the believe in balancing opposites |
Mountain range of Mt. Everest | Himalayas |
Mt. Everest superlative | world's tallest mountain |
globalization | the development of a global, or worldwide, society in which people, money, information, and goods flow fairly freely across national borders |
free trade | the flow of goods and services across national borders, with little or no government control (no taxes) |
tariff | a tax on goods that cross country borders |
multinational corporation | a large company that has operations in more than one country |
economic interdependence | a condition in which countries have strong economic ties and depend on each other for resources, technology, trade, and investment |
distribution | the way people or things are spread out over an area or a space; also the way resources, power, or goods are divided among people or groups |
offshoring | the practice of basing some of a company's processes or services overseas, so as to take advantage of lower costs. |
outsourcing | companies send jobs to other countries to be completed by cheap labor |
sweatshop | foreign manufacturer with unsafe working conditions, long hours and low wages. Work is often completed by women and children. |
population density | the average number of people who live in a unit of area, such as a square mile. Population density measures how crowded an area is. |
population distribution | where people live in a country, whether crowded together in cities or spread out across the countryside |
arithmetic population density | the population of a country divided by its total land area |
physiologic population density | the population of a country divided by its arable land area |
commute time | the amount of time spent traveling to and from work |
arable land | land suitable for growing crops |
terracing | the creation of flat areas on mountain slopes for the purpose of farming |