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Capital of China
Beijing
World's highest mountain peak
Mount Everest
Geography
The capital of Syria
Damascus
The capital of Turkey
Ankara
Belief that the Chinese ruler was given the power to rule by their gods
Mandate of Heaven
Group of nomadic tribes who wandered northeastern Asia on horseback in search of food for their livestock
Mongols
The first Chinese dynasty with a recorded history
Shang Dynasty
Name of the Chinese government formed in 1912
Republic of China
Longest ruling dynasty in Chinese history
Zhou Dynasty
The Venetian trader who explored China and wrote a book about the country
Marco Polo
The empire that grew to be one of the greatest Chinese empires by size in the ancient times
Han Dynasty
Most famous land route to China that allowed for trade between China and the Roman Empire
Great Silk Road
Leader of the Chinese Communists
Mao Zedong
City known for its "one country, two systems" policy
Hong Kong
The leader of the Nationalist of the Republic of China
Chiang Kai-shek
Two important lines of latitude in the Northern Hemisphere
Tropic of Cancer and the Arctic Circle
A group of lines that go up and down and from side to side, forming squares or boxes on a map
Grid
The Westen Hemisphere contains which two continents
North America and South America
The greatest distance around the earth
Circumference
Th site of 1989 protest against Communism in China
Tiananmen Square
The three counties that were collectively called French Indochina before World War II
Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam
A tomb built for the wife of a ruler of India
Taj Mahal
The multicontinental chain of volcanoes located along the Pacific coast that experience frequent earthquakes
Ring of Fire
The first known civilization to develop and use writing
Sumerians