Chapter 6-China

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How are cities improving?: they are getting bigger homes and living conditions are getting better
What are Hong Kong and Macau important for?: both cities are centers for manufactoring, trade, and finance
What is the most populous city and capital?: Taipei
What do important industries in Mongolia use?: products from animals
Where did there wealth come from?: high-technology industries
What are pagodas?: Buddhist temples with many storied towers
What other things do Mongolia's industries use?: copper and gold
Taiwan has one of the world most what?: prosperous economic
More than 460 million people live where?: in cities
About 92% of these people belong to the ethnic group called ____.: Han Chinese
During the 1300s what happened to them?: they weakened and fell apart and China took over
Taiwan is a___.: island
What is the biggest event of the year and what is it?: Naadam Festival: event with many sporting events
After the last emperor what did China become?: a republic
China's population is about___ and makes up about ____ of the world: 1.27, one-fifth
What do they provide for China?: transportation routs and rich soil
About 75% of the people live where?: in urban areas
What is invest?: to put money into a company in China
General Chiand Kai-shek was the leader of what?: the nationalists
Mongolia became independent and created a strict communist government under the guidance of who?: the Soviet Union
About 85% of the people are what?: Mongols
The largest what is also in China?: plateau
China claimed Tibet but they want what?: indipendence
What is a dynasty?: line of rulers from one single family that would hold power until it is overthrown
What is the Free Enterprise System?: a system that the government allows people to choose their own jobs how much the want to sell them for and where they want their buisness
What did the communist do to the mainland of China?: compleatly changed it
What government is Taiwan?: a democracy
What is the largest city and capital?: Ulaanbaatar
As a result of the changes in the economy what has happened to it?: the economy has boomed
What is the Turban Depression?: a ditch like bowl that is partly filled with salt water that is below sea level
What is the "one-country, two-systems" pledgs?: China's promise to allow western freedoms and capilization to exist side by side with communism
What is it known as?: "Land of the Blue Skies"
What are two natural diasters that occur in China?: floods and earthquakes
What are China's three main rivers?: Yangtze, Yellow, and Xi
How has China's economic growth affected China's envoronment?: is has caused pollution to the water and the air
What dish is China famous for?: there hot and spicey dishes
What does the country move towards?: free enterprise system
What type of land structure is Mongolia?: a landlocked
Who became the new communist leader?: Deng Xiaoping
60% live where?: in urban areas
Why were many people killed?: because they opposed communism
China is famous for what?: there art
What influinces China's art?: nature
What did Laozi or Daoism teach?: that people should live simpily with nature
What are yurts?: large circle-shaped structures made from animals the can be packed up and moved from place to place
The Chinese thinker named Kongfuzi a.k.a. Confucius taught what?: that people should be polite, honest, brave, and wise
Why is the Yellow river called "China's Sorrow": because it caused floods and caused many lives
What have dynasties done for China?: they have built highly developed culture and conquered neighbors
Why haven't Taiwan claimed there are independent?: because China has threatened to use force against them
Laozi started a thinking system called what?: Daoism
Mao Zedong was the leader of what?: the communists
Taiwan is close to what?: China's mainland
Between the communists and the nationalists who won?: communists
Chinese thinkers believed that what was a key to good behavior?: learning
Besides the Gobi what elese covers Mongolia?: steeppes
Who led Mongolia to conquests?: Genghis Khan
What runs through the center of Taiwan?: mountains
Who overthrew the last emperor?: Dr. Sun Yat-sen
What place do most people live in?: the flat area on the west
Eurpoeans forced China to trade because they wanted what?: silk, tea, and pottery
What is a communist state?: the government controls the economy and society as a whole
What is the Dalai Lama?: the Buddhist leader of Tibet
Who has there growing economic influenced?: there neighbors: Asia
What is a dike?: build up of high banks of sail along a river
What type of government did they become in 1990?: democracy
What is a fault: a crack in the earth's crust
After the republic what took control?: the communist party
China was often what from other countries?: influinced
People today are allowed to what?: practice there religion freely
What surrounds deserts on China?: mountains
What elese contrubutes to the booming of it's economy?: agriculture
It is the ______ largest country in the world.: third
What is Taiwan's weather like?: mild winters and hot, rainy summers
About 64% of China's people live where?: in rural areas
Most people are what religion?: Buddhists
Mountains cover about how much of China.: one-third
The largest plateau is China is called what?: Plateau of Tibet
The early Chinese people were what?: thinkers and inventors
What are the two main deserts?: Taklimakan and Gobi
Under communism what happened to the peoples religion?: it was discouraged

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