Chapter 7 Key Term Quiz

East Asia
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A polycentric city of 11 compact cities, including Hong Kong, Macau, Huizhou and Guangzhou, that is projected to soon increase its population to 65 million and is one of China's industrial growth regions.

Name given to China's claimed territory in the South China Sea due its presentation on Chinese maps with nine dashes.

An area where waters drains from and flows into a river or a number of tributaries.

An area created by sediments carried by a river.

A China-led initiative to provide funds for development projects.

A dynamic economic model which classifies countries as either core, periphery, or semi-periphery by the economic interactions between them.

A system of large family-controlled firms that dominates the South Korean economy.

Fine-grained windblown sediment.

The ruling system in Korea with one of the longest continuous political systems from 1392 to 1910.

Currency from another country.

An empire that developed from the Roman Empire, centered on Constantinople that lasted from 285 until 1483.

War between China and the UK in 1839-42 over the opening of China's eastern ports to European traders and especially the import of opium into China by the British.

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