Geography
This is the mountain range separating China and India, contains Mount Everest.
What are the Himalayas?
This was the policy in China adopted in the late 1970s to limit population growth. Strictly enforced in cities.
What is the One-Child Policy?
These two cities are the capitals of North Korea and South Korea.
What is Pyongyang? (North Korea)
What is Seoul? (South Korea)
Tallest mountain in Japan, is an active volcano.
What is Mount Fuji?
This wall was built in northern China to keep out nomadic (steppe) tribes and their warrior horsemen. Built over a thousand of years by many Chinese Imperial dynasties.
What is the Great Wall of China?
This vegetable food is water-intensive to grow and is a staple crop across East Asia.
What is rice?
Capital city of China, houses the Forbidden City and the Communist Party leadership.
What is Beijing?
This was the war fought between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) and the Republic of Korea (South Korea).
What was the Korean War?
Capital city of Japan.
What is Tokyo?
This is the Chinese philosophy created by Confucius 2,500 years ago.
What is Confucianism?
This is the capital city of Mongolia.
What is Ulaanbaatar?
This was the term for a family that ruled Imperial China for at least a generation.
What is a dynasty?
This is the fenced in area dividing North and South Korea.
What is the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)?
This was the military dictator of Japan from the 1100s to the mid-1800s.
What is the Shogun?
After the Chinese Civil War, Nationalist forces fled to this island.
What is Taiwan?
This is the largest hydroelectric dam in China, on the Yangtze River.
Created the People's Republic of China and was the first leader of Communist China.
Who is Mao Zedong?
These were the three Great Leader/Supreme Leaders of North Korea, ruling North Korea since 1948.
Who is Kim Il-Sung, Kim Jong-Il, and Kim Jong-Un?
This is the traditional Japanese religion in Japan.
What is Shinto?
This was Mao Zedong's policy that attempted to modernize China but caused tens of millions to die via starvation.
What is the Great Leap Forward?
This country, home of the Dalai Llama (Buddhist leader) is a mountainous area of China that wishes to be independent.
What is Tibet?
This is the Chinese minority group that is being persecuted for their religion (Islam), being sent to "re-education camps" and being forced to adopt Han Chinese Confucianism and speak Mandarin Chinese.
What are the Uighurs?
This Korean kingdom pushed out the Chinese from northern Korea and ruled a united Korea for some time.
What was the Silla Kingdom?
This is the type of government Japan has.
What is a constitutional monarchy/democracy?
These are the names of the Communist parties ruling China and North Korea.
What is the Korean Workers' Party? (North Korea)