Unit 9 Vocab
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| Kunlan Mountains | mountains located in the west of China that are the source of two of China's great rivers, the Huang He (Yellow) and the Chiang Jiang.
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| Qinling Shandi Mountains | mountains in southeastern and 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, that starts in the Kunlan Mountains and Winds east for about 3,000 miles, emptying into the Yellow Sea.
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| Chiang Jiang | the longest in Asia, flowing about 3,900 miles from Xizang to the East China Sea.
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| Xi Jiang | also called the West River; the river that flows eastward through China.
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| Typhoon | a tropical storm, like a hurricane, that forms in the western Pacific.
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| Taklimaken Desert | a desert located in western China between the Tian Shan and Kunlan Mountains.
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| Gobi Desert | a desert located in Northern China and southeast Mongolia, a prime area to find dinosaur fossils.
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| Three Gorges Dam | a dam begun in the late 20th century on the Chiang Jiang in China.
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| PCBs | an industrial compound that accumulates in animal tissue and can cause harmful effects.
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| Landfill | a method of solid wwaste disposil in an area.
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| Dynasty | a series of rulers from the same familly.
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| Spheres of Influence | a method of dividing foreign control in China.
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| Boxer Rebellion | an uprosing in 1900, spurred by angry China militiants.
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| Mao Zedong | the leader of the communists in China who defeated the Nationalists in 1949; he died in 1976.
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| Confucianism | a movement in China based on teachings of Confucis.
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| Taoism | a philosophy based on the book Tao Te Ching.
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| Buddhism | a religion that originated in India in 500 B.C and spread to China.
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| Economic Tiger | a country with large amounts of economic growth.
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| Pacific Run | an economic and social region with countries around the Pacific countries.
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| Three Kingdoms | the kingdoms formed in 200 A.D on the Korean peninsula.
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| Seoul | the capital and largest city in south Korea.
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| Pyonmgyang | the capital and largest city in North Korea.
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| Samurai | a profesional soilder in the Japenese who served for landowners and chiefs.
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| Shogun | the general of the Emperor's army.
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| Ring of Fire | the chain of volcanoes that lines the pacific ocean.
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| Great Kanto Earthquake | an earthequake in 1923 in Japan that killed an estimated 140,000 people.
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| Tsunami | a giant ocean wave, caused by an earthquake or a volcanic eruption.
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| UNICEF | an international watchdog and relief orginization for children.
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| Global Economy | the merging of regional economies which nations become dependent on each other.
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| Jakota Triangle | a zone of prosperity in the 1980s - Japan, Souuth Korea, and Taiwan.
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| Recession | an extended period of time of decline of general business activity.
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| Sweatshop | a workplace where people work for low pay and poor working conditions.
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