World Geography Chap 6 Sec 2 of 3 Test
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- China's population
- About 1.27 billion or one-fifth of the world's population.
- Confucius
- Also known as Kongfuzi.
- Characters
- Chinese writing uses these to represent words.
- Seas, mountains and deserts
- Natural barriers in China.
- Culture
- China built a highly developed ____.
- Tibetan or 55 other ethnic groups
- About 8% of China's population.
- Length of the Great Wall of China.
- Over 4,000 miles.
- Exile
- Unable to live in one's own country.
- Mao Zedong
- The communist leader of China.
- Calligraphy
- Art of beautiful writing.
- Lands
- China conquered other _____.
- Republic
- China became this in 1911.
- Chinese craft workers make what items?
- Bronze bowls, jade, jewelry, decorated silk, glazed pottery and fine porcelain.
- Pagoda
- Many-storied Buddhist temple.
- Cities
- These are growing rapidly in China.
- Rural areas
- About 70% of China's people live here.
- Harmony between people and nature
- Chinese artists attempt to portray this in their art.
- Buddhism
- Came to China from South Asia in 100 A.D.
- Kongfuzi
- Man who believed that people should be polite, honest, brave, and wise.
- Silk, Tea and Pottery
- Europeans wanted these from China.
- Great Wall stretches from this to that.
- Yellow Sea to the Gobi Desert.
- Han Chinese
- About 92% of China's population.
- Tibet
- China took control of this country in 1950.
- How many Chinese characters are there?
- Over 50,000.
- When did the communists win control of China?
- In 1949.
- General Chiang Kai-shek
- The Nationalist leader of China.
- Who lived around 500 BC?
- Confucius ( aka Kongfuzi)
- How many characters does the average person recognize?
- 8,000.
- Age of China's civilization
- About 4,000 years old.
- Dynasty
- Line of rulers from the same family.
- Deng Xiaoping
- Mao Zedong died in 1976 and this man took over.
- Human Rights
- Basic freedoms and rights such as freedom of speech and freedom of assembly, which all people should have.
- Daoism
- Laozi came up with the ideas that formed this religion.
- Great Wall
- China built this as a barrier to invaders from the North.
- Open country
- Deng Xiaoping wanted to make China a more ____ country.
- Chinese inventions
- Paper, silk, the clock, the magnetic compass, printed books, gunpowder and fireworks.
- Tiananmen Square
- Thousands of student protestors were killed here in 1989.
- Imperial Palace
- Located in the heart of Beijing.