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kunlun mountains | mountains located in west china that are the source of two of chinas great rivers |
Qiniling Shandi Mountains | moutains in southeastern and eastceatral China; they devide the northern part of China from the southern part |
Huang He | a river in notrh China, also called yello river, that starts in the Kunlun mountains and wind east for about 3,000 miles, emotying into the Yello Sea |
Chang Jiang | the longest river in Asia flowing for about 3900 miles |
Xi Jiang | aslo caled the west river; the river the flows eastward through southeast China and joins the Pearl River th flow into the South China Sea |
typhoon | a tropical storem like a hurricane, that occurs un the weastern Pacific |
taklimakan desert | desert located in western china between the Tian Shan and Kunkun mountains |
Gobi desert | a desert located in northan china and southeast mongolia and a prime area for finding dinosaur fossils |
dynasty | a series of rules from the same family |
spheres of influence | a method of dividing foreign controul in China |
Boxer Rebellion | an uprising in China in 1900, spurred by angry Chinese militants, or boxers, over foreign control; sevral hinderd Europeans,christains, and Chienese died |
Mao Zedong | the leader of the Communist in China who defeated the Nationalists in 1949; he died in 1976 |
Confucianism | a movement based on the teaching of Confucius, a chinese philosopher |
Taoism | a philosophy based on the book Tao Te Ching and the teachings of Lao-tzu who liced in china in the sixth century BC and belived in preserving and testoring harmont inthe individual, with nature and the unicerse wiith little intergerence from the goverment |
Buddhism | a rekigion that originated in India about 500 BC and spread to china, where it grew in to a major religion by 400 AD |
economic tiger | a conutry with a rapid economic growth due to cheap labor, high technology, and ehhressive exports |
Pacific Rim | an economic and social region including the contries suttounding the pacific ocean |
Three kingdoms | the kingdoms foemed in the peninsula of Korea by 300AD a professional solduer in Gaoan who |
Seoul | the largest city in South Korea |
Pyongyang | the largest city in North Korea |
samurai | a peofessional soldier in Japan who served the interest of ladowners and clan chiefs |
shogun | the feneral od the empeors army with the power of a military dictator |
Ring of Fire | a chian of valcaons thatlines the Pacific Rim |
Great Kanto earthquake | an earthquake in 1923 in Japan that killed an estimated 140,000 people and left the city of tokyo in ruins |
Tuunami | a giant ocean wave, caused by an underwater earthquake or volcanic eruption |
UNICEF | an international watch dog and relief organization |
glonal economy | the merging of tegional economues in which nations become independt on each other for goods and services |
Jakota Triangle | a zone of prosperity during the 1980s and the early 1990s |
recession | a extened period of decline in general business activity |
sweetshop | a workplace where people work long hours for low pay under poor conditions to enrich manufactures |