| A | B |
| Forbidden City | China's Imperial Palace |
| Mao Zedong | led Communist forces to win control of China in 1949 |
| Kongfuzi | Known outside Asia as Confucius |
| Communists | wanted to get rid of ancient tradtions and values and replace with their beliefs |
| Family loyalty | helped shape the culture of China and its neighbors |
| Daoism | people should calmy accepttheir fate |
| Siddartha Gautama | Indian prince who was "enlightened" and began Buddhism |
| Writing | united China as an empire |
| aquaculture | fish farming |
| Iron Rice Bowl | workers were paid even if they did not work |
| Pacific Rim | countries that border the Pacific |
| Deng Xioping | encouraged private enterprise in China |
| Taiwan | has also been known as Formosa |
| autonomous regions | self governing area |
| socialist realism | art that "serves the people" |
| martial arts | ancient forms of hand to hand combat |
| Hong Kong | British Crown colony |
| economic miracles | countries that have significantly increased their trade |
| Bejing | Peking before pinyin |
| Laozi | teacher who may have started Daoism |