| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Silk road | trade route that was used heavily to transport Chinese goods to the Middle East and Europe from the 12th to 17th centuries |
| fireworks | created in China, used in there spring festival to scare away the mythical beast of the new year |
| Great Wall | built by built Shi Huangdi to keep out northern nomadic invaders |
| Chinese inventions | gun powder, paper, fireworks |
| three Gorges Dam | built to increase hydroelectric energy and decrease impact of flooding on the Yangtze River |
| Kung Fu | developed by a buddhist monk in a cave above the shoalin monastery based on the movements of animals |
| Tai Chi | a soft or internal martial art which uses the ideas of yin and yang |
| Forbidden city | the palace of the emperor, believed to have 9999 rooms one short of the mythical 10,000 in heaven |
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