Show:
Rivers, Mountains, and Landforms ETC
Countries and Capitals
Geopolitics
Borders
Fun Facts
100
14 nations boarder this country.
What is China?
100
This city is the capital of China
What is Beijing
100
As a result of the First Anglo-Chinese War(1842), China ceded Hong Kong Island to the __________ under the Treat of Nanjing in 1842.
What is 'United Kingdom'?
100
This country was responsible for the building of the Great Wall of China.
What is Mongolia?
100
China's official name, but used a lot less often.
What is The Republic of China?
200
This is the nickname given to the treacherous Huanghe (Yellow River).
What is "China's Sorrow"?
200
This is the first recognized dynasty that lasted from 2200 to 1750 B.C. and marked the transition from the late neolithic age to the Bronze Age. a. the Xia b. the Britain c. China d. Hong Kong e. Song
What is a. the Xia
200
China has two special administrative regions: Hong Kong, which reverted from British control in _____ (year); and Macau, which reverted form Portuguese control in _____ (year).
What is '1997 1999'
200
This country has a two-section border, an eastern border and a western border, with China.
What is Russia?
200
This style of Southern Chinese martial arts was highly popularized in Chinese movies, and featured in films with Yip Man.
What is Wing Chun?
300
China has 50,000 rivers. This particular river rises in Tibet and flows through Central China.
What is the Yangzi river?
300
_____ Dynasty (221-206 B.C.) set in place lasting unifying structures such as standardized legal codes, bureaucratic procedures, forms of writing, coinage, and a pattern of thought and scholarship.
What is Han?
300
China considers Taiwan a(n) _______ and an inalienable part of China, which has been separated from China since 1949.
What is 'province'?
300
This country is connected to China through a bridge constructed by the Japanese Imperial Army. Pedestrians are not allowed to cross it.
What is North Korea?
300
The traditional regions of China are Confucianism, Daoism and ________.
What is 'Buddhism'
400
This structure was used to alleviate flooding along the Yellow river.
What is the Grand Canal?
400
The Chinese saw their domain as the self-sufficient center of the universe, and from this image they derive the traditional Chinese name for their country - _____, literally Middle Kingdom or Central Nation.
What is Zhongguo?
400
_______ separatists in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region present China with its most significant terrorist threat, which emerged in the late 1980s.
What is 'Muslim'?
400
This country lies between India and the western part of China. Its borders are connected to China by a town called Zhangmu, a city called Lo Manthang, and a bridge.
What is Nepal?
400
The _____ reaches from the coast of Hebei Province to northwestern Gansu, officially 6,000 kilometers in length, although unofficial estimates range from 2,700 kilometers to as many as 50,000 kilometers, depending of which structures are included in the measurement.
What is Great Wall?
500
He was the founder of China's first dynasty and has been said to be responsible for the flooding of the Yellow River.
Who is Yu the Great?
500
For centuries, China faced periodic invasions from _____ Asia including major incursions in the twelfth century by the Khitan and the Jurchen, in the thirteenth centry by the Mongols, and in the seventeenth century by the Manchu, all of whom left an imprint on Chinese civilization while heightening Chinese perceptions of threat from the north.
What is Central and Inner?
500
The main purpose of 'six-party' is to resolve tensions on the _______(place).
What is 'Korean Peninsula'?
500
One way China borders this country, is through the Friendship Pass, located in southern China and built during the early Ming Dynasty. It had traditionally been served as the exact border between the two countries.
What is Vietnam?
500
In 2014, China had a proximate GDP of US$ _______ billion. a. 10 b. 100 c. 1,000 d. 10,000 (From IMF World Economic Outlook, October 2014)
What is 'd'