Globalization

      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?