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Define words on p of your notebook. Look in the glossary of your GACTCT book. Also pp / sedimentBrahman / monsoonKarma / peninsulacaste system / brown cloudsBuddhism / typhoonsFour Noble Truths / subcontinentNirvana / natural resourcemonotheistic / HinduismShintoism / Vedaskami / polytheisticConfucianism / reincarnation / sedimentBrahman / monsoonKarma / peninsulacaste system / brown cloudsBuddhism / typhoonsFour Noble Truths / subcontinentNirvana / natural resourcemonotheistic / HinduismShintoism / Vedaskami / polytheisticConfucianism / reincarnation
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Warm-up #9/10 Wednesday, 3/6/13Name one thing that you know
about China, Japan, India or Southeast Asia.
AGENDA:Unit 9 vocabulary review
Map of Southern and Eastern AsiaAnnouncement: Unit 9 vocabulary quiz on
Friday
Define words on p 92-93 of your notebook. Look in the glossary of your GACTCT book. Also pp 127-148.
sediment Brahman monsoon Karma peninsula caste system brown clouds Buddhism typhoons Four Noble Truths subcontinent Nirvana natural resource monotheistic Hinduism Shintoism Vedas kami polytheistic Confucianism reincarnation
Unit 9 Vocabularysediment – the topsoil, silt and minerals from the mountains that is gradually spread along the path of a river making the land fertile.
monsoon – a seasonal prevailing wind, lasting several months, bringing heavy rains.
peninsula – a body of land that is surrounded by water on three
sides.
brown clouds – haze of pollution
Hong Kong
typhoon – a tropical storm
Over Pacific Ocean
subcontinent – a division of a continent
natural resource – something that is in or supplied by our natural environment and can be consumed or used by people
Hinduism – the worship of many gods that are a part of a supreme
spirit named Brahman.
Vedas – a book containing prayers and rituals of the Hindu religion.
polytheistic – worshiping many gods
reincarnation – a belief that the soul does not die with the body, but enters the body of another being, either a person or an animal
Brahman – the name Hindus have given to the gods they believe are part of a supreme spirit
Karma – the belief that ones actions determine ones fate
caste system – a belief that a social class is inherited
Buddhism – a belief that people could find peace if they could reject greed and desire
Four Noble Truths – the four phases of the Buddhist religion
Nirvana – name given to reaching a state of perfect peace in the religion of Buddhism
monotheistic – belief in one god
Shinto – the earliest religion in Japan which means “way of the gods”
kami – the divine spirit that followers of the Shinto’s religion believe live in nature
Confucianism – a philosophy or ethical system based on good deeds and morality
No warm-up Thursday, 3/7/13
AGENDA: Review unit 9 vocabulary Map of southern and eastern Asia
Announcement: unit 9 vocabulary quiz tomorrow
