Geography
History
Culture
Government
Economy
100
a high desert in China and Mongolia.
What is the Gobi desert
100
a huge and long wall built to keep nomads out of China.
What is the Great Wall
100
the founder of Buddhism also known as the Buddha, or "enlightened one."
Who is Siddhartha Gautama
100
a governmental division like a state.
What is a province
100
an economy in which business is privately owned.
What is free enterprise
200
the second largest sand desert in the world.
What is Taklimakan Desert
200
an educated person who worked in China's government.
What is a scholar-official
200
trade routes used between China and Southwest Asia.
What are the Silk Roads
200
a public gathering to protest a policy or action.
What is a demonstration
200
an economy in which the government owns all land, factories, and businesses, and decides what will be produced.
What is a command economy
300
a mountain range that divides China from India.
What are the Himalayas
300
an ancient Chinese name for China.
What is the Middle Kingdom
300
a Chinese belief system based on the teachings of Confucius.
What is Confucianism
300
China's national law-making body.
What is the National People's Congress (NPC)
300
leader who enacted a command economy in China.
Who is Mao Zedong
400
the longest river in Asia, flowing through eastern China.
What is the Chang Jiang River
400
the first emperor to unify much of China.
Who is Shi Huangdi
400
a Chinese belief system based on the idea of natural order in the world.
What is Daoism
400
a government and economic system in which the government holds nearly all political power and the means of production in the name of the people.
What is communism
400
leader who began introducing elements of free enterprise to China's economy in 1978.
Who is Deng Xiaoping
500
a barrier built on the Chang Jiang to control floods.
What is the Three Gorges Dam
500
Communist leader of China from 1949 to 1976.
Who is Mao Zedong
500
according to one of the the three major Chinese belief systems, this is a force that guides the world.
What is Dao
500
the location of a huge demonstration for democratic rights that occurred in 1989
What is Tiananmen
500
Name at least two detrimental effects of China's expanding industries.
What is air pollution, contaminated water sources and drinking water, acid rain, dust bowls, most polluted cities in the world
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