China
What did China hope to accomplish with its one-child population policy?
Slow the population growth rate of China.
What is Japanese Manga.
A type of Japanese comic book.
What type of government is in North Korea?
communist
What is marial law?
government maintained (stays in power) with military power
A bullet train is able to travel at very high speeds. What allows the train to travel so quickly?
The trains are aerodynamic, and the fastest ones also use magnetic levitation.
Select one of the following Chinese inventions (porcelain, movable type, gunpowder, paper money, or magnetic compass) and explain the importance of the invention when it was invented, and how it is continued to be used today.
Answers vary.
What is Japanese Anime?
A style of animation or cartoon created in Japan.
What type of government is in South Korea.
Democracy
What is a pagoda?
a multistoried structure that is usually used for religious purposes. (in Taiwan)
Why is the economy of Taiwan so important to the country?
In China specific areas called SEZs (Special Economic Zones) were created to help businesses grow. What is a SEZ?
An area where companies are free from government control.
Why did Japan develop high-speed rail known as bullet trains?
To make travel between major cities faster and smoother.
Which Korea (North or South) often experiences famine (extreme food shortages)?
North Korea
What is GDP?
gross domestic product- measures the size of a country's economy. (how much stuff and services made in a country in one year.)
India and China both have massive populations. Why could China limit the number of children born and India is not able to do the same?
China is communist and can control their people, India is a democracy and they have less control over their people.
What is Taiwan’s relationship with China?
They trade with each other, but both claim to be the ruler of all of China.
Japanese Anime or Manga is often based on what?
Japanese culture, ancient myths, Shinto, and Buddhism.
Why is it unlikely that North and South Korea will reunite into a single Korean country?
Two totally different types of government that are opposite, and totally different lifestyles and beliefs of the people.
What is an entrepreneur?
people who start up a new business.
Describe the difference between monotheism and polytheism.
Monotheism is the belief in one God.
Polytheism is the belief in many gods.
What factors helped Shanghai become China’s largest city?
Shanghai is a (SEZ) Special Economic Zone. This is an area in which businesses are free from government control.
At one time Japan had the strongest economy in all of Asia. Then the Japanese economy declined and struggled. What was the cause of the decline of the Japanese economy?
Many businesses had borrowed huge amounts of money and were deeply in debt. They had little capital or money for investment.
Answers will vary.
What is free trade?
agreement between countries to not add taxes or fees on imported products.
The building of the Three Gorges Dam in China has benefits and drawbacks. Describe 1 benefit AND 1 drawback of the dam.
Benefits: controls flooding, saves lives, allows ships to travel year round, allowed cities to grow along the river, produces lots of clean electricity.
Drawbacks: forced people to move, destroyed ecosystems, killed most the fish, very expensive to build, historic sites now under water.