What was the Silk Road?
A major trade route between Europe and Eastern Asia.
What are terraces used for?
To grow rice.
Which two countries controlled Korea?
China and Japan.
What was an important era in China for art?
The Ming Dynasty.
China's Economic System
Communism
As an island nation, one natural disaster that Japan faces is what?
A tsunami.
Korea paid "tribute" to which country?
China.
Which country do men and women wear kimono?
Japan.
Japan's government is a:
Constitutional Monarchy
This country has secluded itself, so it does not have access to foreign investment.
North Korea.
Many people in Japan live along the ______ because ________?
Coast, the country is mountainous.
What have North Korea's dictators spent most of their country's money on?
The military/building the military.
What does the image of the samurai stand for?
Discipline, respect, and justice.
South Korea's government is a:
Democracy.
What are the two main sources of Japan's economy?
Fishing and whaling.
Japan has to _____ many of their resources.
import.
What has slowed the development of technology in many Southeast Asian countries?
Communism.
____ are used as eating utensils in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam?
Chopsticks.
Many economies in Southeast Asia are developing and their economies depend on __________.
Agriculture.
These two landforms have caused China to be secluded from the rest of the world.
The Gobi Desert and Himalayan Mountains.
Which two Japanese cities did the U.S. drop atomic bombs on?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
What are 3 religions that focus on the teachings of an individual?
Buddhism, Shintoism, and Confucianism.