East/Southeast Asia Vocabulary

Study the definition and picture.

Try to guess the correct vocabulary word.

Woven palm fronds, reeds, or straw used to build roofs.

Thatch

A Japanese form of poetry that contains only 17 syllables.

Haiku

Cloth manufactured by weaving or knitting

Textile

Beijing, China: thousands of protesters were injured or killed by

the military in 1989

Tiananmen Square

A Japanese warrior who pledged to serve a particular lord and protect his estate.

Samurai

By the end of the Long March, he had emerged as the leader

in the Communist Party.

Mao Zedong

Famous Chinese philosopher who taught the importance of moral

character

Confucius

Religion founded in India in the 500’s B.C. by Siddhartha

Gautama

Buddhism

A Japanese city on which the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb in 1945

Hiroshima(August 6, 1945)

A group of families who trace their descent from a common ancestor

Clan

A Hindu temple built in Cambodia by the Khmer people

Ankor Wat

In feudal Japan, the emperor’s chief general who held most of the

country’s power

shogun

Nationalist Party Leader of China from 1927-1949.

Chang Kai-Shek

Mostly the same

Homogeneous

The freedom to say or write what you think, to worship as you believe, to be safe from physical harm, and political persecution—and to have enough to

eat.

Human rights

A method of dyeing fabric in which any parts of the fabric not

intended to be dyed are covered with wax

Batik

A family of rulers

dynasty

A leader in Vietnam’s independence movement

Ho Chi Minh

A Buddhist tower built in many levels, with sculptures or carvings

of Buddha on each level

Pagoda

A Japanese city which the U.S. dropped its second atomic bomb in

1945

Nagasaki

( August 9, 1945)

The founder of Buddhism

Siddhartha Gautama

A large farm on which hundreds of families work

cooperative

A movement that Mao Zedong began in China in 1966 in an

attempt to remove opposition to the Communist Party

Cultural Revolution

A government ruled by a person in the military.

Military dictatorship