Term
|
Definition
General name for religions that worship nature spirits and ancestors |
|
|
Term
Association of Southeast Asia Nations (ASEAN) |
|
Definition
Includes every country in the region of Southeast Asia except East Timor, has created generally effective system of regional cooperation. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Dominant Malay peoples, means “sons of the soil. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
the president’s friends were given huge economic favors, while those believed to be enemies had their properties taken |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| If Vietnam fell to the communists, then so would Laos and Cambodia; onces those countries were lsot, Burma and Thailand, and perhaps even Malaysia and Indonesia, would become members of the Soviet-dominated communist bloc. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
A place where goods are imported, stored, and then transshipped. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Communist Guerrilla group that gained power in Cambodia, received supplies from North Vietnam. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
common trade language, used by people of different communities throughout much of the insular realm. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
is an ancient Sanskrit epic. It is attributed to the Hindu sage Valmiki and forms an important part of the Hindu canon (smṛti). The Ramayana is one of the two great epics of India, the other being Mahabharata.[1] It depicts the duties of relationships, portraying ideal characters like the ideal servant, the ideal brother, the ideal wife and the ideal king |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
System of small plots of several acres of forest or brush are periodically cut by hand, the fallen vegetation is then burned to transfer nutrients into the soil before subsistence crops are planted. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Another name for Hurricane- in western Pacific. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
relocation of its population from one region to another within its national territory. |
|
|
