| A | B |
|---|
| Hwang Ho | river in China where early civilization developed ( also known as the Yellow River |
| Confucianism | believed that peace and order could be obtained by following rules about proper behavior in society and between people |
| Taoism | believed peace and order could be achieved by returning to nature |
| Lao-Tzu | founder of Taoism |
| Shinto | early Japanese religion that taught that the emperor was divine |
| Kami | spirits in nature in Shintoism |
| Great Wall of China | built in 200s bc during the 1st dynasty to keep China safe from invading Mongols |
| dynasties | ruling families of China |
| Mandarins | high officials of Chinese civil service ( also the N. dialect of China) |
| Hong Kong | won by Britain in the Opium Wars |
| July 1 1997 | Hong Kong returned to Chinese control |
| British | Controlled Hong Kong until July 1, 1997 |
| Tianamen Square | site in China where student protestors were slain in 1989 |
| archipelago | a group of islands |
| Dutch | Europeans who Japan allowed to trade with their country |
| Samurai | Japanese power in the 1100s |
| Shoguns | warlords in Japan who were the real power behind the emperor |
| WWII | provided Japan the opportunity to expand their empire |
| Manchuria | part of China that Japan invaded in 1937 |
| Hiroshima | bombed by the US on August 6, 1945 |
| Nagasaki | bombed by the US on August 9, 1945 |
| Pearl Harbor | US naval sea base in Hawaii that was attacked by Japan on December 7, 1941 |
| 38th parallel | division between North & South Korea |
| communist | type of government in China, Mongolia, & N. Korea |
| democracy | type of government in Japan, S. Korea, & Taiwan |
| Nationalist party | democratic government in China that overthrew the last dynasty in 1911 |
| Jiang Jieshi | leader of the Nationalist Party |
| atheist | official religion of most communist countries |
| Buddhism | religion that spread to China in 1st century AD through trade with India |
| over 1 .357 billion | population in China |
| "later, longer, fewer" | campaign slogan for China's population control policy |
| gardens | grown by most Chinese in order to get extra money from govt |
| 76% | amount of Japan that is urban |
| Beijing | China |
| Ulan Bator | Mongolia |
| Tokyo | Japan |
| Pyongyang | North Korea |
| Seoul | South Korea |
| Taipei | Taiwan |
| Mao Zedong | led communist movement in China |
| paddies | flooded fields where rice is grown |
| aquaculture | another word for fish or shellfish farming |
| Mandarin | the most spoken Chinese dialect |
| mangrove swamp | found in humid regions of China |
| samarai | skilled japanese warrior |
| yin and yang | symbol of Taoism |
| swastika | symbol of Hinduism |
| martial law | government maintained by military power |
| terra cotta | 1000s of llfe size warriors were fashioned out of this baked clay |
| silk roads | trade routes between Europe and China |
| tori gate | symbol of the Shinto religion |
| Mandarin | the most spoken lanuage in the world |
