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100

The Huang He River, China's second-longest, which carries rich Loess soil East from the plateau region through the North China Plain is A.K.A

**What is the Yellow River?**

100

This is soil carried by flowing water deposited along Banks of rivers and is ideal for farming

What is Alluvium Soil?

100

He taught that people can become superior by respecting everyone and loving them.

Who is Confucius?

100

In this moment, the United States and the Soviet Union (Russia) fought each other for decades without really sending troops to fight each other.

**What is the Cold War?**

100

This would occur every time the Chinese people believed a new dynasty had been put in charge by the Gods and was guaranteed to succeed.

What is the Divine Mandate

OR

Mandate from Heaven?

200

The Chang Jiang, China's longest river, flows from the plateau through the central plains of China and is A.K.A.

What is the Yang Tze River?

200

This river flows west to east through the northern China Plains.

What is the Huang He

OR

Yellow River?

200

His legalists insisted that the teachings of Confucius were wrong, probably because he was forcing people to work on his "Great Wall".

**Who is Shi Huandi?**

200

This Chinese Government plan was designed to modernize China but instead left over 20 million people dead, mostly from hunger.

What is the Great Leap Forward?

200

This was used every time a government tried to convince the people to do things they might not want to do.  Usually it meant telling people only part of the truth and highlighting how great the government was.

**What is propaganda?**

300

Mao Zedong, the leader of the Communist Party in China is A.K.A.

Who is Chairman Mao?

300

This river flows from the western plateau to the east through the central China Plains.

What is the Chang Jiang River

OR

Yangtze River?

300

These warriors were hired by land-owning-Lords in Japan to fight battles.

Who are the Samurai?

300

This Chinese Government plan began in the 1960s to remove people and ideas that disagreed with communism.  It used it's young Red Guard to target, intimidate and kill elites such as teachers and professors.


**What is China's Cultural Revolution?**

300

This happened in North and South Korea when both sides agreed to stop fighting each other.  
It is NOT an agreement for how to get along.  
It is just an agreement to stop fighting.

What is an Armistice?

400

China's First Emperor and leader during the Qin Dynasty was A.K.A.

**Who is Shih Hwang-Ti?**

400

This waterway eventually connected the northern parts of China with the Central and Southern parts of China and alllowed trade to grow everywhere.

**What is the Grand Canal?**

400

His plan insisted that China take a great leap forward.

Who is Chairman Mao

OR

Mao Zedong

400

This Chinese Dynasty was responsible for expanding trade along the Silk Road.

**What is the Han Dynasty?**

400

This group came together after World War II to help keep peace around the world.  Many countries from this group helped South Korea defend itself from North Korea.

**What is the UN 

or 

United Nations?**

500

Empathy and love toward all people is A.K.A.

**What is Jen?**

500

This line of latitude serves as the border between North and South Korea.

What is the 38th Parallel?


500

This RULER held  the largest empire(geographically) in history.  While being shamanic in nature, the empire was very tolerant of other religions and used a LOT of fierce horsemen in the army.

**Who is Ghengis Khan?**

500

Considered to be China's first major Dynasty.  It was led by Shih Whang-Ti.  It began the building of China's Great Wall.

**What is the Qin Dynasty?**

500

This group of "Enlightened Rulers" tried to modernize Japan by modeling Japanese society on Western countries?

Who are th Meiji?