| Term | Definition |
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Qin Shihuangdi |
was the first true emperor of China |
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Confucius |
is a Chinese philosopher whose ideas and sayings were collected after his death and became a basic of a philosophical doctrine known as Confucianism |
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conscription |
is when men and young boys are taken away from their families military or noval service, or a draft |
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dialect |
is a special variety of a language |
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Mandarin |
is the standard Chinese language |
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Mongolia |
is a region in Asia including Inner Mongolia of China and the Mongolian people's republic |
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Beijing |
is the traditional capital of Chin |
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Shanghai |
is to enrollor obtain a sailor for a crew as by force os by the use of liquor drugs |
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Xi'an |
was the capital of the ancient Chinese empire |
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calligraphy |
is a fancy penmanship or highly decorative handwrighting |
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acupuncture |
is Chinese medical practice or procedure that treats illness or provides local anesthesia by the insetion of needles at specified sites of the body |
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Huang He River |
A yellow river,it is the 2nd largest river in China |
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Chang Jiang River |
a.k.a.Yantze, is the longest river in China and the 3rd longest in the world |
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Szrchuan Province |
is a part of China that is called the land of the pandas |
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Buddahism |
is a religeon by Buddah in China, holding that life is full of suffering caused by desire and that the way to end this suffering is through enlightment that enables one to halt the endless sequence of births and deaths to which one is otherwise subject. |
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Himalayas |
the highest mountains in the workd that is extence about 1500mi. along theborder between Indea and Tibet. |
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Yin and Yang |
generalizations of the antithesis or mutual correlation between certain object. |
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Oracle Bones |
a group so inscribed animal bones and shells discovered in China and used originally in divination by the ancient Chinese,during the Shang dynasty |
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dynasty |
is a sequence of rulers from the same family,stock,or group |
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Cormorants |
any of several large, widely distributed marine diving birds of the genus Phalacrocorax,having dark plumage,webbed feet,a slenter hooked bill,and a distensible pouch |