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Kunlum Mountains   mountains located in the west of china that are the source of two of the china great rivers  
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Qinling shandi mountains   mountains in the southeastern and the east central china they divide the northern part of china from the southern part  
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Huang He   a river in northern china, also called the yellow river  
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Chang Jiang   the longest river in Asia , flowing about 3,900 miles from xizang  
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Xi Jiang   called the west river, the river that flows eastward through southeast china and joins the pearl river  
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typhoon   a tropical storm, like a hurricane, that occurs in the western pacific  
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Taklamakan Desert   a desert located in western china between the tian shan anf kunlum moutains  
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Gobi Desert   a desert located northern china and southeast Mongolia, and a prime area for finding dinosaur fossils  
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three gorges dam   a dam begun in the late 20th century on the Chung Jiang in china, to help control flooding  
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pcbs   an industrial compound that accumulates in animale tissue and can cause harmful effects  
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landfill   a method of solid waste disposal in which refuse is buried between layers of dirt in order to fill in or reclaim low lying ground  
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dynasty   a series of rules from the same family  
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spheres of influence   a method of dividing foreign control in china, after the country was forced to sign a series of treaties granting privileges to Europeans  
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boxer rebellion   an uprising in china in 1900 , spurred bu anger Chinese militants, or boxers, over foreign control  
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mao zedong   the leader of the communist in china who defeated nationalist in 1949  
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taoism   a philosophy based on the book tao te ching and the teachings of lao tzu  
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buddhism   a religion that originated in India about 500bc and spread to china  
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economic triger   a country with rapid economic growth due to cheap labor  
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pacific rim   an economic and social religion including the countries surrounding the pacific ocean  
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three kingndoms   the kingdoms formed in the peninsula of Korea  
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seoul   the largest city in south Korea, with a population of more than ten thousand people  
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pyongyang   the largest city in north Korea, with more than 2.5 million people  
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samurai   a professional soldier in japan who served the interest of landowners and clan cheifs  
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shogun   the general of the emperors army with powers of a military dictator.  
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