Geography
River called "China's Sorrow"
Yellow River
Venetian trader who explored China and wrote a book about the country
Marco Polo
Important U.S. military base in Hawaii
Pearl Harbor
Various types of cloth
Textiles
Japanese government official during World War II who desired to rule all of Asia
Tojo
Form of government led by a dictator with absolute rule and control
Communism
Longest structure ever built by man
Great Wall of China
Name of the combined North and South Vietnam
Socialist Republic of Vietnam
Group of nomadic tribes who for centuries wandered northeastern Asia on horseback in search of food for their livestock
Mongols
Most famous land route to China; allowed for trade between China and the Roman Empire
Great Silk Road
Qin Dynasty
Chinese government formed in 1912
Republic of China
Located in East Asia, one of the coldest deserts in the world
Gobi Desert
Chinese teacher and philosopher
Confucius
Largest Philippine island
Luzon
Monarchy in which nine sultans take turns ruling for five years
Rotating monarchy
Hirohito
City and its surrounding area that is ruled by an independent government
City-state
Smallest country in East Asia by population
Brunei
Earliest known empire in ancient Cambodia
Khmer Empire
China's last dynasty
Qing Dynasty
Japanese cities where the first atomic bombs were dropped
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Most culturally brilliant dynasty in Chinese history
Song Dynasty
Largest connected land empire in history at that time
Mongol Empire
Multicontinental chain of volcanoes located along the Pacific coasts that experience frequent earthquakes
Ring of Fire
U.S. naval officer who signed a trade agreement with Japan
Commodore Matthew Perry
World's largest archipelago
Malay Archipelago
A group of islands
Archipelago
Leader of the Khmer Rouge
Pol Pot
Delicate type of pottery first made in China
Third-largest island in the world
Borneo
Name for Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam before World War II
French Indochina
1950-1953
Formal name of Hong Kong
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
Empire that grew to be one of the greatest Chinese empires by size in ancient times
Han Dynasty
Genghis Khan
Fierce Mongol ruler who united the Mongol tribes; began the Mongol Empire
Asia's longest river
Yangtze River
Portuguese explorer who claimed the Philippine islands for Spain
Ferdinand Magellan
Philippine mountain that produced one of the largest volcanic eruptions in the 20th century
Mount Pinatubo
Means "Land of the Rising Sun"
Nippon
Ho Chi Minh
Planting crops on mountainsides by cutting the slope into a series of steps
Terracing
Creates the borders between Myanmar, Laos, and Thailand
Mekong River
Communist group that took control of the Cambodian government
Khmer Rouge
Leader of the Nationalists of the Republic of China
Chiang Kai-Shek
Site of a 1989 protest against Communism in Beijing
Tiananmen Square
First Chinese dynasty with a recorded history
Shang Dynasty
First leader of the Republic of China
Sun Yat-Sen
Located in China; one of the largest shifting-sand deserts in the world
Taklamakan Desert
Founder of North Korea
on Brunei River; world's largest floating village
Kampong Ayer
Belief that the Chinese ruler was given the power to rule by their gods
Mandate from Heaven
First emperor of China; established the Qin Dynasty and united the states of China
Qin Shi Huang
Line of latitude that roughly marks the borders of North and South Korea
38th parallel
Oldest and longest manmade waterway in the world
Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal
Largest of the three ancient Asian river valley cultures
Yellow River Valley civilization
Give the dates for the Vietnam War
1954-1975
Largest religious structure in the world
Angkor Wat
Longest-ruling dynasty in Chinese history
Zhou Dynasty
Leader of Chinese Communists
Mao Zedong