China Woodward
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ariviere99 on May 17, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Chang Jiangs River | Longest river in China, 3, 400 miles |
| 3 Gorges Dam | World's Longest Dam, prevents floods and supplies lots of hydroelectric power |
| Beijing | Capital of China |
| Forbidden City | Place where China's king lived |
| 3 | number of different air masses in east and southeast asia |
| monsoon | seasonal winds that blow steadily from the same direction for several months at a time but change directions at other times of the year |
| dynasty | a line of rulers from a single family |
| Mandate of Heaven | the belief of the people that God wants you to rule |
| Dynastic Cycle | the way in which you are great and then you stink |
| Confucianism | Zhou's way of thinking by teaching people by being virtuous or morally good as well as loyal to their families |
| Daoism | a way of living in harmony with nature |
| Buddhism | a religion introduced to China from India, nirvana equals a perfect life |
| Han | a dynasty that invented paper and founded the Silk Road |
| Silk Road | a large trading network stretched from China to SW Asia; they sent silk, spices, tea, paper, and fine clay work and received gold, silver, stones, and fine woods |
| Tang and Song | a dynasty that produced steel by mixing iron with coal carbon and created gun powder as well as the compass |
| Mongols | Genghis and Kublai Khan ran this dynasty that stretched from the Pacific Ocean to Europe. Marco Polo helped by working for them. |
| Confucianism | founded by Confucius |
| 5 main respects | 1. Ruler to ruled 2. Father to son 3. Older brother to younger brother 4. Husband to wife 5. Friend to friend |
| Filial Piety | respecting your elders |
| Legalism | founded by Han Feizi, rejected Confucianism and Daoism, believed that people acted out of self interest, only a system of punishment and rewards would ensure order in society |
| Ming | a dynasty that built Beijing and the Forbidden City, created the census |
| census | count of population, statistics of population |
| Qing | Last dynasty of China |
| Mao Zedong | a communist leader in China who tried to modernize China, similar to Stalin |
| collective farms | several large government farms |
| Deng | leader after Mao, opened Chinese markets to the world, started to Westernize China, reigned during Tiananmen Square Massacre |
| gentry | well-born and well-bred people |
| communism | a system of government in which the government controls the way of producing goods |
| One child policy | an act to control population growth in 1979 that encouraged families to not have more than one child |
| command economy | economic system in which the government decides how resources are used and what goods and services are produced |
| Boxer Rebellion | event when the Chinese people were killing every white person possible |
| Great Firewall of China | modern day bans in China restricting internet access and types of westernization |
| Tibet | an area, originally a separate Buddhist kingdom, that was taken over by China. The people of the area want freedom and independence from China. |
| trade deficit | the difference of money between two countries such as between China and the United States |
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