SS Finals : China
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- Manchuria
- Northeastern province of China
- Hung He (Yellow River)
- Major River in China;flows across North China into the Yellow Sea
- kowtow
- low bow expressing respect and submission to the Chinese Emperor
- filial piety
- according to the Chinese philosopher Confucius, the duty and respect that children owe to their parents
- Han Dynasty
- dynasty that ruled from 202 B.C TO 220 A.D
- Gobi Desert
- physical barrier of China
- Opium War
- war between China and British for the trade of an illegal drug
- Treaty of Nanjing
- treaty where china had to except British terms for peace;ended Opium war
- Long March
- chinese communist under Mao Zendong in 1934 march lasted longer than a year covered 6000 miles: would win support of the peasants
- Mandate of Heaven
- Chinese belief that heaven grants a ruler the right to rule
- Boxer Rebellion
- rebellion to expell all foreigners from China
- yin and yang
- are forces of nature to balance each other.
- Confucius
- china\'s most known philosopher stared Confucianism
- Daoism
- emphasizes the link between people and nature
- Sun Yatsen
- served as a president to the new republic
- GLF (Great Leap Forward)
- under Mao; where communes were separated and peasants were forced to give up their land
- red guards
- guards who supported Mao Zendong\'s Cultural Revolution with abusive tactics to those who didn\'t
- Cultural Revolution
- movement that emphasized class struggle
- sphere of influence
- an area which a foreign nation has special economic privileges, such as building railroads.
- Mao Zendong
- leader of the communists
- Chiang Kaishek
- leader of Nationalists
- propaganda
- spread of ideas to promote cause or damage an opposing cause