Identifications: Briefly identify the following significant terms, using full sentences with fact in your completed answers posting on this course website (60 points)

1. alluvial fan

2. autonomous region

3. Common wealth of Independent States (CIS)

4. steppe

5. desertification

6. Aral Sea

7. Taliban

8. Pashtun

9. Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)

10. The New Silk Road

11. tsunami

12. China Proper

13. Taiwan

14. Hong Kong and Macao

15. ideographic writing

16. loess

17. One Belt One Road

18. Deng Xiaoping

19. Juche

20. hikikomori

21. caste system

22. Jainism

23. Hinduism

24. Buddhism

25. The Green Revolution

26. Indian Subcontinent

27. Jammu-Kashmir

28. Maoism

29. Sikhism

30. linguistic nationalism

II. Essay: answer the following essay question, using full sentences and paragraphs with fact in your posting of completed answers (40 points) (400 words)

One of the main themes of the textbook is globalization. In the three areas studied in the aforementioned chapters reviewed in this final examination, some have argued that globalization has been a positive development while other have suggested that it is in fact a new “social imperialism” or has at the very least upset the natural geopolitics in favor of outside Powers. From an objective standpoint, one can certainly conclude that these regions have progressed since World War II given prominent examples such as India and China. Can the merits of such argument be countered or supported?