Lesson 1-Land of three rivers
Lesson 2- Middle Kingdom to Communist Power
Lesson 3- Changing Chinese culture
Lesson 4- A rising power
Vocabulary
100
A barrier built on the Chang Jiang to control floods.
What is the Three Gorges Dam
100
The first emperor to unify China.
Who was Shi Huangdi?
100
The belief system that believes social order and good government should be based on strong family relationships.
What is Confucianism?
100
The national lawmaking body of China.
What is the National People's Congress?
100
A governmental division like a state.
What is a province?
200
The mountain range that seperates China from India.
What is The Himalayas.
200
The ancient Chinese name for China.
What is the Middle Kingdom?
200
The belief system that states humans should learn to live simply and in harmony with nature.
What is Daoism?
200
The place where demonstrations against corruption and more democratic freedoms took place in April 1989.
Where is Taiananmen Square?
200
A set of regularly followed ceremonies.
What is a ritural?
300
The nickname given to the Huang He river because it floods so much.
What is "China's sorrow"
300
Two Chinese inventions they attempted to keep the secret of how to make.
What is silk and porcelain?
300
The belief system that says people suffer because of emotional attachents and their desire for worldly goods.
What is Buddhism?
300
The way the Chinese government has started developing western China.
What is by building roads, railways, drilling for oil and natural gas?
300
Shared ownership of property.
What is communal?
400
% of all deaths in coal mines worldwide occur in China.
What is 80%
400
The leader of China who started the economic plan called the Great Leap Forward.
Who was Mao Zedong?
400
Two things Chinese characters represent.
What is ideas or words?
400
The type of economic system in which the government owned all the land, materials and factories and decided what would be produced.
What is command economy.
400
A line of rulers from the same family.
What is a dynasty?
500
The name given to the ancient trade routes on the edges of the Taklimakan and Gobi deserts.
What is Silk Road
500
Where the Nationalist fled after the Communist won the civil war in 1949.
Where is Taiwan?
500
Two aspects of technology the Chinese government tries to control.
What is T.V. and internet?
500
The type of economy in which people can own a business and sell their products for a profit.
What is free enterprise?
500
Having to do with earthquakes.
What is seismic?
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