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china vocab words
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| warlords | military leaders who run a government |
| wendi | declared himself emperor |
| economy | is an area of the production, distribution, or trade, and consumption of goods and services by different agents in a given geographical location |
| reforms | means the improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, unsatisfactory |
| Empress Wu | she was selected to be the first consort of the newly crowned emperor |
| monasteries | a building or complex of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of monastics, monks or nuns, whether living in communities or alone (hermits). a place reserved for prayer, like a chaple |
| japan | is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, the East China Sea, China, Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the southwest |
| porcelain | is a ceramic material made by heating materials, generally including kaolin, in a kiln to temperatures between 1,200 and 1,400 °C |
| chang'an | is an ancient capital of more than ten dynasties in Chinese history, today known as Xi'an. Chang'an means "Perpetual Peace" in Classical Chinese |
| li bo | was a Chinese poet acclaimed from his own day to the present as a genius and a romantic figure who took traditional poetic forms to new heights |
| calligraphy | is a visual art related to writing |
| du fu | was a prominent Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty |
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