East and South East Asia Vocab

A term commonly used to describe several booming economies in Southeast Asia. Typically includes Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Taiwan. The economic growth in each of the nations is usually export-led but with sophisticated financial and trading hubs.

• ASEAN

• Tiger Economy

• Shogun

• Tariff

Member of the Japanese warrior caste. The term originally used to denote aristocratic warriors, but it came to apply to all of the members of the warrior class that rose to power in12 century Japan.

• Samurai

• Shogun

• Khmer Rouge

• Tsunami

Polytheistic religion that revolves around the kami, supernatural entities believed to inhabit all things.

• Shintoism

• Confucianism

• Buddhism

• Hinduism

A hereditary commander in chief in feudal Japan. They were generally the real rulers of the country until feudalism was abolished in 1867.

• Samurai

• Shogun

• Khmer Rouge

• Shinto

A tax or duty to be paid on a particular class of imports or exports.

• Tariff

• ASEAN

• Outsourcing

• Tsunami

A long high sea wave caused by an earthquake, submarine landslide, or other disturbance.

• Tsunami

• Samurai

• Shogun

• Khmer Rouge

Head of the Nationalist government in China from 1928 to 1949. Later head of the government exiled in Taiwan.

• Chaing Kai-Shek

• Moa Zedong

• Khmer Rouge

• Shogun

An ancient Chinese belief system that focuses on the importance of personal ethics and morality.

• Shintoism

• Confucianism

• Hinduism

• Buddhism

The campaign undertaken by the Chinese communists between 1958 to 1960 to organize its vast population to meet China's industrial and agricultural problems.

• ASEAN

• Great Leap Forward

• Outsourcing

• Domino Theory

The leader of the Communist party in China from 1935 until his death.

• Moa Zedong

• Chaing Kai-Shek

• Shogun

• Pol Pot