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E/SE Asia 27-28

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Kunlun Mountains   located in west China, source of China's great rivers Huang He (yellow river), Chiang Jiang (Yangtze river)  
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Qinling Shandi Mountains   divides China into north and south  
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Huang He river (yellow)   also called "China's sorrow" because it causes terrible floods, empties into the yellow sea, has yellow silt  
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Chiang Jiang (Yangtze)   longest river in all of Asia, major trade route  
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Xi Jiang (West)   joins with three other rivers to form an estuary  
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typhoon   tropical storm that occurs in the western pacific  
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Taklimakan desert   located in western China  
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Gobi desert   northern China, find a lot of dinosaur fossils  
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3 Gorges Dam   built on the Chiang Jiang river to control the flooding, 3rd longest dam in the world  
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PCB's   industrial pollutants that build up in a persons tissue that cause disease and birth defects  
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landfills   a method of solid waste disposal, trash is buried between layers of dirt  
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dynasty   a series of rulers from the same family  
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spheres of influence   a method of dividing foreign control  
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Boxer Rebellion   an uprising in china in 1900 by angry Chinese militants against the foreign control  
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Confucianism   the philosophy of Confucius  
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Taoism   the teaching of Lao Tzu  
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Buddhism   focuses on rebirth and the end of the rebirth cycle  
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economic tiger   a nation that has rapid economic growth due to cheap labor, high technology, and aggressive exports  
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pacific rim   the countries surrounding the pacific ocean  
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3 kingdoms   Koguryo, Paekche, and Silla. They form the Korean peninsula  
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Seoul   the largest city in South Korea  
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Pyongyang   the largest city in North Korea  
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samurai   professional soldiers  
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shogun   general of the emperor's army, like a military dictator (Japan)  
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