Unit 7- Asia Vocabulary

A King or Queen is the official head of state but power is limited by a constitution.

• Great Wall of China

• Constitutional Monarchy

• Archipelago

• Dynasty

a country or area in which another country has power to affect developments although it has no formal authority.

• Sphere of influencce

• Pacific Rim

• Disctatorship

• Substinence Farming

growing just enough food to feed own families

• Trade deficit

• Endemic

• Substinence farming

• Sphere of Influence

Class of warriors in feudal Japan who pledged loyalty to a noble in return for land.

• Dictatorship

• Tsunami

• Samurai

• Flora

an ideology or system based on the idea that the property of a community should be owned collectively and shared among everyone.

• Pacific Rim

• Communism

• Plantation

• Absolute Monarchy

A large farm in tropical and subtropical climates that specializes in the production of one or two crops for sale, usually to a more developed country.

• Pacific Rim

• Tsunami

• Plantation

• Dictatorship

all the animal life in a particular region

• Fauna

• Flora

• Tsunami

• Samurai

world's longest man made structure built to keep invaders from the north out of China, started by the Qin Dynasty, expanded by the Han Dynasty,

• Constitutional Monarchy

• Archipelago

• Great Wall of China

• Dynasty

In feudal Japan, a noble similar to a duke. They were the military commanders and the actual rulers of Japan for many centuries while the Emperor was a powerless spiritual figure.

• Shogun

• Tsunami

• Samurai

• Plantation

an economic and social region including the country's surrounding the pacific ocean

• Dictatorship

• trade deficit

• trade surplus

• Pacific Rim