| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Land under heaven | Old School term used for China |
| 1.4 billion | China's population |
| Himalayas | Famous mountain range in China |
| Yeti | Famous monster in the famous mountain range in China |
| 25 | Percent of China that is deserts |
| 25 | Percent of China that is mountains |
| 95 | Percent of people that live in China's eastern half |
| 75 | The percent of people who are farmers in China |
| Gobi | Northern desert of China |
| Taklamakan | Western desert of China |
| Tibet | Mountain range in southwestern corner of China |
| Tienshan | Mountain range in the northwestern corner of China |
| Mandate from heaven | The permission of the people for emperor and his family to rule |
| Lao Tzu | Taoism was founded by him |
| Individual | Taoism experessed the importance of the ______ |
| Classific of the way and its power | Lao Tzu's book |
| Confuciansim | Confucius founded this religion |
| Analects | Book Mencius wrote |
| Society | In confucianism everybody finds a place in _______ |
| Legalism | The religion in which everyone was assumed to be evil |
| Siddartha Gautama | This guy founded buddhism by sitting under a tree for a long time |
| Nirvana | Buddhist name for heaven and grunge band from Seattle |
| Silk road | Road used to travel to China and trade stuff (especially silk) |
| Marco Polo | This guy went to China and made a book about their stuff / also a popular children's pool game |
| Macau | The first European settlement in China |
| Opium | China traded porcelain for this and became addicted |
| First opium war | This war broke out because Chinese blew up the British Opium |
| The fleet | Special name for the British army |
| Treaty ports | The 5 ports made in China for trade were called this |
| Opium | The 2nd opium war had nothing to do with this |
| Treaty of Tianjin | The treaty ending the 2nd opium war in 1960 |
| Tai Ping Rebellion | The war between northern and southern China from 1950-1964 |
| Korea | Japan defeated China for control of this country |
| Boxers | Nickname for the Society of righteous and harmonous fists |
| PuYi | The last dynastic emperor of China |
| Sun Yat Sen | The provisional leader that replaced PuYi |
| Three principles of the people | Policy that Sun Yat Sen added |
| Yuan Shih Kai | Leader after Sun Yat Sen |
| Warlord Period | A time in which there was no definite leader of China |
| Kuomintang | Sun Yat Sen returns in 1918 and creates this politcal party |
| Russia | This country cound not make up its mind so decided to help both the nationalists and the communists |
| Mao Zedong | Former leader of the Chinese Communist party |
| Chiang Kai Shek | Leader of the nationalists that replaces Sun Yat Sen |
| Nationalists | This party defeats the other in 1928 |
| Manchuria | The part of China that Japan invades in 1931 |
| Manchukuo | Name of the Japanese group that took over Manchuria |
| 1948 | Year that Mao defeats the Nationalists |
| Peoples republic of China | China's name after Mao took over |
| Stalin | Mao copies this guy's ideas |
| Great leap forward | Nickname for second five year plan |
| Four Olds | Ideas, customs, culture, and habits were called this by Mao |
| Gang of Four | This gang had four people in it and was ruled by Mao's wife |
| Four Modernizations | Agriculture, industry, technology, military were called this by Deng Xiaoping |
| Democracy Wall | A wall in which people got to write what the thought about the government |
| A Bulldozer | Deng used this to destroy the Democracy wall |
| Tiannamen Square | Many students have a hunger strike against the government |
| Hu Jin Tao | Current leader of China |
| Xia | First(unproven) dynasty of China |
| Shang | Second dynasty |
| Zhou | Third dynasty |
| Zhou | This dynasty was first to use iron and bronze |
| Zhou | The 3 faiths (confucianism, legalism, taoism) emerge under this dynasty |
| Q'in | Fourth dynasty |
| Q'in | China got its name from this dynasty |
| Q'in | The first legalist dynasty |
| Q'in | This dynasty starts the construction of the great wall |
| Han and Later Han | The fifth and sixth dynasties |
| Han and Later Han | China became an empire under this dynasty |
| Han and Later Han | Silk Road created under this dynasty |
| Xian | Chinese city at the end of the silk road |
| Aleppo | Syrian city at the end of the silk road |
| Period of disunion | The period of dynasties 7-12 were referred to as this |
| Sui | Thirteenth dynasty |
| Sui | Buddhism is created under this dynasty |
| Tang | Fourteenth dynasty |
| Tang | Buddhism becomes a major religion under this dynasty |
| The five dynasties | The five dynasties from 15-19 were also referred to as this |
| Song and Southern Song | Dynasty 21 and 22 |
| Yuan | Dynasty 22 |
| Yuan | Marco Polo arrived under this dynasty |
| Ming | Dynasty 23 |
| Q'ing | Dynasty 24 |
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