chapter 31-33 vocab Crossword

areas in which these countries had some politi-cal and economic control, but did not directly govern.
give up his throne
regional leaders with their own armies,
the production of small consumer goods such as clothing, appliances, and bicycles.
law that is administered during periods of strict military con- trol.
growing more than one crop a year on the same land.
someone who claims to rule by religious
autonomous region is a political unit with limited self-government.
pictures or characters representing a thing or an idea.
denies the existence of God.
practice of inserting very thin needles at specific points on the body to cure diseases or to ease pain.
protective zone
emergency or interim government set up when a political void has been created by the collapse of a very large government
mass departure, that provided a vast supply of inexpensive labor for the factories of Hong Kong.
machines that register movements in the earth’s crust
tropical hurricane that forms over the Pacific Ocean, often causing floods and land- slides.
uniform
glorification of the military and a readiness for war.
fired
taxes on imports that make foreign goods more costly than their domestic equivalents.
fixed total quantities,
strip of land on which troops or weapons are not allowed.
increase in number, of atomic weapons around the world.
people without manners or civilized customs.
wet land on which rice is grown,
native
people who rebel against their government, has greatly slowed Myanmar’s economic growth.
keystone of the program attracting foreign investors
lack of similarity