| A | B |
|---|
| Seismic | descripitive of earthquakes or earth vibrations |
| Intensive Farming | farming that requires amount of labor |
| Aquaculture | fish farming contributes about one third of China's yearly catch |
| Terraces | In farming a flat narrow ladge of land supported by walls of stone and mud parallel to the natural slop of the land |
| Sphere of infuence | areas in which these countries had some political and econmic control |
| Abdicate | give up his throne |
| Warlords | regional leaders with their own arimies, seized power in their own area |
| Light industry | the production of small consumer goods such as clothing and appliances |
| martial law | ordered demonstrators to leave the square |
| double cropping | growing more then one crop a year on the same land |
| theocrat | is someone who claims to rule by religous or divine authority |
| autonmous region | is a political unit with limited self-goverment |
| ideograms | pictures or charcters representing a thing or an idea |
| atheism | denies the exitnces of god |
| acupuncture | is the practice of inserting needles at a specific point on the body to cure diseases or to ease pain |
| buffer | protective zone between China and Russia |
| provisional | temporary government |
| exdus | a mass migration from a region |
| seismograph | machines that registers movements in the earth's crust |
| typhoons | is a tropical hurricane that froms over the Pacific Ocean |
| homogeneous | unifrom |
| militarism | new leaders promoted |
| downsized | fired as their companies trim workers to save cost |
| tariffs | taxes on imports that make foreign goods more costly then their domestic equivalents |
| quotas | fixed total quantities which |
