| A | B |
|---|
| typhoon | a hurricane in the Pacific |
| work ethic | people who long hours out of duty |
| agriculture | farming |
| ancestor veneration | worshipping/praying to your departed relatives so they'll look over your family |
| anime | Japanese animation |
| annex / annexation | to take over a piece of land ? make it part of your own nation |
| archipelago | chain of volcanic islands |
| arranged marriages | when parents decide who their children will marry |
| artisans | craftsmen- people making things with their hands |
| Atomic Era | started on August 6, 1945 with the dropping of the 1st atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan ? the nuclear age |
| August 6 & 9, 1945 | beginning of the nuclear age: Hiroshima suffers the 1st atomic bomb ? Nagasaki is the 2nd city to be hit an atomic bomb 3 days later |
| capital | money |
| chivalry | European knights code of honor |
| December 7, 1941 | US enters World War II - Pearl Harbor attacked |
| favorable balance of trade | it occurs when you export more than you import |
| haiku | a Japanese poem: 17 syllables |
| Hirohito | Emperor of Japan during World War II |
| Hiroshima & Nagasaki | the only 2 cities to have nuclear bombs dropped on them (August 1945) |
| homogeneous | people of the same race/culture |
| imperialism | taking over an area for your own benefit |
| import | to ship into your country - you lose $ |
| industrial | factories |
