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100
A stone barrier extending fifteen hundred miles across northern China. It is a popular tourist destination today.
What is the Great Wall of China?
100
A person who believes there is no god.
What is an atheist?
100
A large desert in north-central China and southern Mongolia.
What is the Gobi?
100
Relating to atomic power.
What is nuclear?
100
A ruling house or continuing family of rulers.
What is a dynasty?
200
This dynasty established the first centralized imperial government and built much of the Great Wall.
What is the Qin dynasty?
200
A fine, yellowish-brown topsoil made up of particles of silt and clay, carried by the wind.
What is loess?
200
A mountain range that separates China from South Asia.
What are the Himalayas?
200
A pictorial character or symbol that represents a specific meaning or idea.
What is an ideogram?
200
A citizen who speaks out against government policies.
What is a dissident?
300
The second imperial dynasty of China. Founded in 206 BC that lasted four centuries and is considered a golden age in Chinese history.
What is the Han dynasty?
300
Trade restrictions.
What are economic sanctions?
300
A mountain range that lies along part of the border between China and Mongolia.
What is the Altay Shan?
300
The world's largest human-made waterway.
What is the Grand Canal?
300
A seasonal wind that brings warm, moist air from the oceans in summer and cold, dry air from land in winter.
What is a monsoon?
400
Chinese communist revolutionary and founding father of the People's Republic of China.
Who is Mao Zedong?
400
An area's original inhabitant.
What is an aborigine?
400
An infrastructure project that involved the relocation of over a million people.
What is the Three Gorges Dam?
400
A fast growing plant that is used for everything from medicine, food and decoration to building material.
What is bamboo?
400
A collective farming community.
What is a commune?
500
Philosopher and teacher that developed the system of ethics, education, and statesmanship stressing love for humanity, ancestor worship, reverence for parents, and harmony in thought and conduct that has remained the creed of the Chinese to this day.
Who is Confucius?
500
A violent tropicical storm that forms in the western Pacific Ocean, usually in late summer.
What is a typhoon?
500
A country's shipping fleet that engages in trade.
What is a merchant marine?
500
A group of mountains, such as the Kunlun Shan and Tian Shan.
What is a mountain range?
500
A relatively small district in China that is fully open to global commerce.
What is a Special Economic Zone (SEZ)?