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China
Rozina Gjergji
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| the second longest river in China | Huang He River |
| the longest river of Asia; flows eastward from Tibet into the East China Sea near Shanghai | Yangtze River |
| a large plain in East Asia built up by soil deposits of the Huang He | North China Plain |
| a desert in Mongolia and northern China | Gobi Desert |
| It is the world's 17th largest desert. | Takla Makan Desert |
| the Xinjiang area south of the Tian Shan mountains, North of the Tian ... Khojas, rulers in the western Tarim Basin, south of the Tianshan Mts. ... | Tian Shan Mts |
| is one of the longest mountain chains in Asia, extending more than 3,000 km. | Kunlun Mts. |
| a mountain system of south central Asia extending along the border between india and tibet and through Pakistan Nepal Bhutsan | Himalaya Mts |
| the name given to the northern part of the East China Sea, which is a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean. It is located between mainland China and the Korean peninsula. Its name comes from the sand particles from Gobi Desert sand storms that turn the surf | Yellow Sea |
| is the dominant term used in English for the sea, and the name in most European languages is equivalent, but it is sometimes called by different names in neighboring countries, often reflecting historical claims to hegemony over the sea | South China Sea |
| is a marginal sea east of China. It is a part of the Pacific Ocean and covers an area of 1,249,000 km² | East China Sea |
| The Mekong is one of the world’s major rivers. It is the world's 12th-longest river[1] and the 7th-longest in Asia. Its estimated length is 4,350 km (2,703 mi), and it drains an area of 795,000 km2 (307,000 sq mi)[2], discharging 475 km3 (114 cu mi) of wa | Mekong River |
| a unit of an empire; the provinces of the Roman Empire each had a governor supported by an ary | Province |
| are a mountain range in central Asia, where Russia, China, Mongolia and Kazakhstan come together, and where the rivers Irtysh and Ob have their sources. | Altay Mts |
| the middle time period of the groups of Egyptian dynasties | Middle Kingdom |
| Terrace (agriculture), a leveled surface Terrace (building), a raised flat platform Terrace (geology), a step-like landform that borders a shoreline or river floodplain Terrace (gardening), an element where a raised flat paved or gravelled section overloo | Terrace |
| closely related poeple of several generations such as brothers and sisters parents uncles and aunts grandparents and great grandparents | Extended family |
| a valuable cloth originally made only in China from threads spun by capterpillars called silkworms | Silk |
| a protective wall that controls or holds back water | Dike |
| The shang (Tibetan: gchang) is a flat ritual upturned handbell employed by Bönpo and Asian shamans. The sizes of the shang range from approximately 3 to 20 inches in diameter | Shang |
| Han Chinese (simplified Chinese: 汉族 or 汉人; traditional Chinese: 漢族 or 漢人; pinyin: hànzú or hànrén) are an ethnic group native to China and, by most modern definitions, the largest single ethnic group in the world. | Han |
| Ming (明) is a common personal name among Chinese people, Vietnamese people, and Korean people. In pinyin, it is written Míng, in romanized Vietnamese, it is written as Minh, and in Korean it is pronounced Myeong. Directly translated as "enlightenment", th | Ming |
| Qin (Chinese: 秦; pinyin: Qín; Wade-Giles: Ch'in) (778 BC-207 BC) was a Chinese feudal state that existed during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods of Chinese history. It emerged as one of the dominant superpowers of the Seven Warring States | Qin |
| Tang Dynasty (618–907), Chinese dynasty Later Tang Dynasty (923–936), Turkic dynasty in ancient China King Tang of Shang (湯), the Shang dynasty ruler, who lived around 1660 BCE The term (Tángrén 唐人) that many southern Chinese use to refer to the Han Chine | Tang |
| is a type of visual art. It is often called the art of fancy lettering (Mediavilla 1996: 17). A contemporary definition of calligraphic practice is "the art of giving form to signs in an expressive, harmonious and skillful manner" (Mediavilla 1996: 18). | Calligraphy |
| Chinese philosopher and teacher; his beliefs known as Confucianism, greatly influenced Chinese life | confucius |
| Taoism (or Daoism) refers to a variety of related philosophical and religious traditions that have influenced Eastern Asia for more than two millennia,[1] and have had a notable influence on the western world particularly since the 19th century | daoism Taoism |
| In Chinese philosophy, the concept of yin yang ([yin – simplified Chinese: 阴; traditional Chinese: 陰; pinyin: yīn] [yang - simplified Chinese: 阳; traditional Chinese: 陽; pinyin: yáng] often referred to in the west as yin and yang) is used to describe how | ying yang |
| system belief in many gods | philosophy |
| the group of people whose job is to carry out the work of the government | civil service |
| A bureaucrat is a member of a bureaucracy and can comprise the administration of any organization of any size, though the term usually connotes someone within an institution of a government. Bureaucrat jobs were often "desk jobs" (the French for "desk" be | Bureaucrat |
| the ruler of widespread lands | Emperor |
| a series of rulers from the same family | Dynasty |
| Sun Wu (simplified Chinese: 孙武; traditional Chinese: 孫武; pinyin: Sūn Wǔ), style name Changqing (長卿), better known as Sun Tzu[1] (simplified Chinese: 孙子; traditional Chinese: 孫子; pinyin: Sūn Zǐ; pronounced [swə́n tsɨ̀]), was an ancient Chinese military gen | Sun Tzu |
| the kind of money used by a group or nation | currency |
| a leader of an armed group | warlord |
| Qin Shi Huang (Chinese: 秦始皇; pinyin: Qín Shǐhuáng; Wade-Giles: Ch'in Shih-huang; IPA: [tɕʰǐn ʂɨ̀xwɑ̌ŋ]) (259 BC – 210 BC),[1][2] personal name Ying Zheng (Chinese: 嬴政; pinyin: Yíng Zhèng), was king of the Chinese State of Qin from 246 BC to 221 BC during | Shi Huangdi |
| Emperor Gao (256 BC or 247 BC – 1 June 195 BC), commonly known within China by his temple name, Gaozu (Chinese: 高祖; pinyin: Gāozǔ, Wade-Giles: Kao Tsu), personal name Liu Bang (Wade-Giles: Liu Pang), was the first emperor of the Han Dynasty, ruling over C | Liu Bang |
| Chinese emperor from 140 to 86b.c brought the Han dynasty to its peak; expanded the Chinese empire made Confucianism the state religion | Wudi |
| a hard, ceramic -like clay used in pottery and building construction | Terracotta warriors |
| a wall that extends about 1,400 miles across northern China; built in the third century | Great wall of China |
| The Huns were a group of nomadic pastoral people who, appearing from beyond the Volga, migrated into Europe c. 370 AD and built up an enormous empire in Europe. Since De Guignes linked them with the Xiongnu who had been northern neighbours of China three | Huns |
| a valuable cloth originally made only in China from threads spun by Caterpillar called silkworms | Silk road |
| The Bactrian Camel (Camelus bactrianus) is a large even-toed ungulate native to the steppes of north eastern Asia. It is one of the two surviving species of camel. The Bactrian Camel has two humps on its back, in contrast to the single-humped Dromedary Ca | Bactrian camel |
| Gunpowder, also called black powder, is a mixture of sulfur, charcoal, and potassium nitrate.Gunpowder can be made just using potassium nitrate and charcoal, but without the sulfur, the powder is not as strong. | Gunpowder |
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