abeka old world geography chapter 5
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 China | the third largest nation in the world |
| Huange He | the river that the people of China's descendants settled on |
| China's Sorrow | another name for the Huange He river |
| system of writing | what the Chinease developed that involved more than three thousand symbols |
| divided | China was what during the Chou dynasty |
| Chou dynasty | the longest ruling dynasty in Chinease history |
| Confucius | a famous Chinease teacher |
| Shih Huang Ti | ruler of the state called Ch'in and claimed to be the first emperor of China ruling during the Ch'in dynasty |
| Great Wall of China | the longest structure built by man |
| Ch'in dynasty | one of the shortest dynasties in history |
| Han dynasty | the dynasty in which China grew to its greatest size |
| Great Silk Road | allowed trade between China and the Roman Empire |
| silk | the Chinease were the first people to discover and use what |
| Egyptians | invented the first real paper in A.D. 105 |
| paper money | the Chinease were the first to print ______ ________ |
| porcelain | a fine and delicate type of pottery developed by the Chinease |
| gunpowder compass | _________ and the _________ are both ancient inventions developed by the Chinease |
| Marco Polo | an Italian trader |
| Cathay | what Marco Polo called China |
| J Hudson Tailor | spent forty years teaching the Chinease about Christ known as the father of faith missions |
| John and Betty Stam | _______ and _______ _______ gave their lives to tell the Chinease the true way of salvation |
| Sun Yat-sen | led the Republic of China |
| communist | some of China's leaders accepted a ____________ system of government |
| Mao Tse-tung | led the Chinease communists |
| Chiang Kai-shek | led the Nationalists of the Republic of China |
| Taiwan | the Island Chiang Kai-shek and his supporters fled to |
| People's Republic of China | Taiwan became known as the _________ ________ __ ______ |
| giant panda | one of the world's rarest animals that live in the bamboo forest |
| Beijing | China's capital city |
| Shanghai | a famous and busy seaport |
| Tianjin, Guangzhou, Chongquing, and Nanjing | some other cities in China |
| Hong Kong | returned to Chinease rule in 1997 |
| pagoda | a building or tower with many stories |
| Grand Canal | the longest man-made waterway in the world |
| junks sampans | _________ and ________-small boats used to get goods to market from farming areas |
| free enterprise system | people have the right to own property |
| Tian'an Men Square | a million people gathered at this place to protest communism and demand democratic reforms that would allow the citizens to take a more active part in their country's government |
| Taipei | the capital of Taiwan(which has a republican form of government) |
| Mongols | the nomadic tribes Mongolia is named after |
| Genghis Khan | united the fierce Mongol tribes in the early 1200's |
| Mongol Empire | an empire that reached all the way to Europe, making it the largest empire in history |
| Gobi desert | one of the coldest deserts in the world lies mostly in Mongolia but extends to northern China |
| P'yongyang | the capital of North Korea |
| Seoul | the capital of South Korea |
| Nippon | Japanese for Japan meaning "land of the rising sun" |
| Commodore Perry | opened Japan for trade with the nations of the world |
| Hirohito | befor and during World War II, this man the the emperor of Japan |
| Tojo | a general that was more powerful than the emperor of Japan |
| Pearl Harbor | an important military base in Hawaii |
| Hiroshima Nagasaki | the United States dropped a atomic bomb on the cities of __________ and __________ |
| bullet train | the _______ ______, a high-speed electric train between Tokyo and Osaka, Japan |
| Tokyo | Japans capital and the world's largest city |
| Mt. Fujiyama | Japan's most famous landmark |
| kimonos | long robes that some Japanese women wear |
| terracing | one method of farming |
| Japan | one of the most crowded nations on earth |
| Adoniram Judson | one of the first foreign missionaries sent out by the United States to Myanmar |
| Vietnam War | communist aggression led to what war |
| Thailand | called the "Land of the Free" is the only Southeast Asian country that has never been under the rule of a European country |
| Malaysia | occupies part of the Maly Peninsula |
| Borneo | the third-largest island in the world |
| Singapore | one of the most prosperous countries in the world |
| Brunei | a small country on the northern coast of Borneo that is rich in oil and natural gas |
| Indonesia | made up of many islands, onece know to westerners as the "Spice Islands" or "East Indies |
| Philippines | given to the United States by Spain |
| Manila | the capital of the Phillipines |
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