1 China, 2 Chinas
What was the desire of the US government regarding access to China called?
Open Door policy
What is invisible and the most important geographic feature of the Korean peninsula?
38th parallel
What percentage of the world's rice production comes from East Asia and Southeast Asia?
Almost 90%
what does the name of the Japanese tea ceremony, Chanoyu mean?
hot water for tea
what worldview emphasizes two opposite and complimentary forces or principles like light and darkness, male and female, passive and active?
Yin yang or yin and yang
What two opposing parties vied for power in China in the early 1900s?
Kuomintang (KMT)or Nationalists and Communist Party
What is the difference in the forms of government of North Korea and South Korea?
South Korea is a democracy, North Korea is a communist dictatorship
At 3-6 weeks after planting, where do rice growers transplant the rice seedlings?
To a rice field or paddy
What utensil do families often pass down through generations?
In this world cyclical or linear?
cyclical
Who was the leader of one of the parties who followed Sun Yat-Sen? And who was the leader of the other party?
Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong
What was the nickname of Korea in the 1700s
The hermit kingdom
About 500 million tons
4 hours
When did hinduism arise?
1500-1000bc in india
Which party eventually won the civil war after WWII?
Communist party
When did the Korean War begin?
June 25, 1950
during the gold rush of the 1850s, when some 40,000 Chinese laborers immigrated there and grew rice for their own consumption
All tea comes from how many species of tea plant?
one
In hindu though, separation is an illusion and there is ______ of everything
oneness
After losing the civil war what did the supporters of the other part do?
withdrew to Taiwan
About 1000
Who brought rice production to Brazil?
The Portuguese
What Scottish merchant developed tea bags?
Sir Thomas Lipton
what belief system was founded by siddharta gautama
buddhism