Unit 10 - East Asia Vocabulary

The standard literary and official form of Chinese based on the Beijing dialect, spoken by over 730 million people.

• Lancastrian

• Magellan

• Mandarin

• Coup

A country's fleet of ships that engages in trade.

• Super Trawler

• Drift-net Fishing

• Great Leap Forward

• Merchant Marine

A citizen who speaks out against government policies.

• Dissident

• Coup

• Mandarin

• Samurai

An area's original inhabitants

• Dissident

• Cultural Divergence

• Aborigines

• Samurai

Cultural modification of an individual, group, or people by adapting to or borrowing traits from another culture.

• Aborigines

• Ideograms

• Acculturation

• Aquaculture

Fine, yellowish, brownish topsoil made up of particles of silt and clay, carried and deposited by the wind.

• Loess

• Merchant Marine

• Acculturation

• Aborigines

The cultivation of seafood

• Aquaculture

• Cultural Divergence

• Islet

• Super Trawler

An ocean going factory ship with facilities for processing and freezing fish.

• Drift-net Fishing

• Super Trawler

• Aquaculture

• Merchant Marine

A very small island.

• Mandarin

• Loess

• Islet

• Coup

Earning more money from export sales than spending for imports.

• Aborigines

• Merchant Marine

• Dynasty

• Trade Surplus