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idiographs
pictgraphs
"random" words
look like what they describe
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how many characters? 5,000+ 0 porkchoppony Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:39:51 GMT view revision history
2 groups in china schologentry: elite=ran country

peasants= caused problems
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yu=
founded ______ dynasty
great engineer
xia
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oracle bones buried bones, predicted with cracks 0 porkchoppony Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:39:51 GMT view revision history
years of Shang Dynasty 1700-1046 0 porkchoppony Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:37:36 GMT view revision history
3 contribuations of the Shang Dynasty writing
bronze
war chariot
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bone divination fortelling of future by burning bones 0 porkchoppony Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:37:36 GMT view revision history
jade artifacts= chisels, axex, needles 0 porkchoppony Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:37:36 GMT view revision history
what did the longshan culture bring? pottery formed by wheel
relatively permanent villages
rituals
specailized jobs
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1927= "__________ man" peking man 0 porkchoppony Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:36:29 GMT view revision history
in 1963 remains of a neolithic stone age body were found. 0 porkchoppony Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:36:29 GMT view revision history
chinese civiliation is as old as 500,000 years old 0 porkchoppony Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:36:29 GMT view revision history
what's the staple food? rice 0 porkchoppony Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:35:13 GMT view revision history
Where was the first movement after the first development at the Yellow River yangzi river
where they cleared the rainforest and planted rice.
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where was the first development? Yellow River 0 porkchoppony Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:35:13 GMT view revision history
Why was china so unified? unified chinese language
early development of beaucracy
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the emperor was responsible for the ______________________ of the empire

leading the __________-

the __________________ between __________ and ________.

performed _________ and symbolic acts

determined _____________________-------
well being of the empire
leading the bureaucracy

mediator between heaven and earth

performed rituals and symbolic acts

determined harvests and natural disasters
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emperor = "_____ __ _________." Son of Heaven 0 porkchoppony Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:34:04 GMT view revision history
new dynasties usually happened after _____________.
after a new dynasty there was usualy an ______________________ growth.
After that there was a _________________________________of pwoer.
Then internal __________________
and fianally ______________
war
followed by economic growth
gradual loss of power
disintegration
COLLAPSE
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Imperial emperor once said "____________________________"
he thought all other "_________________________________."
"I rule all under heaven"
"nations are inferior"
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zhonghua = "_______ kingdom" central 0 porkchoppony Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:30:37 GMT view revision history
another name for china- Zhonghua 0 porkchoppony Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:30:37 GMT view revision history
Guangzhou/canton

important in______ china.
important in SOUTH CHINA 0 porkchoppony Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:30:37 GMT view revision history
Chongqing old, industrial, river port 0 porkchoppony Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:30:37 GMT view revision history
Shanghai seaport
populous
1/2 imports/exports pass through
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Tianjin foreign port
industrial city
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what's the capital?
what kind of city does it have?
_______, ______, _______ center
Beijing
political, educational, cultural city
FORBIDDEn city lies within
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what else could hydroelectric power do? irrigate arid land 0 porkchoppony Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:29:28 GMT view revision history
China's greatest energy potential (hint: not coal) HYDROELECTRIC 0 porkchoppony Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:28:02 GMT view revision history
what does china have besides hard coal? tungsten
tin (18million metric tons p.y)
uranium
zinc
copper
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most important energy related feul HARD COAL 0 porkchoppony Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:28:02 GMT view revision history
manchuarian plain= fertile or infertile fertile 0 porkchoppony Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:28:02 GMT view revision history
cash crop= crop grown for ______- resale 0 porkchoppony Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:26:47 GMT view revision history
afforestation= planting trees to prevent soil erosion 0 porkchoppony Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:26:47 GMT view revision history
loess soil= _________ soil fertile 0 porkchoppony Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:26:47 GMT view revision history
china is the leading supplier of ________. grain 0 porkchoppony Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:26:47 GMT view revision history
arable suitable for farming 0 porkchoppony Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:26:02 GMT view revision history
outer china Tibet= cold or hot?
how many inches of rain yearly?
nice or harsh winters?
cold
>1
harsh winters
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South China
1. how many inches of rain per year?
2. what kind of winters?

Think South! like Flordia
1. 60 inches per year
2. Hot and humid winters
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North China
weather
list:
1. what king of winters?
2. What kind of summers?
3. How much rain?
Think North-east US
cold/dry winters
hot summers
little rain
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the summers are __________ humid, warm 0 porkchoppony Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:23:57 GMT view revision history
China has monsoons in the sumer true/false true 0 porkchoppony Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:23:57 GMT view revision history
1/10 of the human race lives near the _______________ yangzi 0 porkchoppony Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:23:57 GMT view revision history
The yellow river is called _____________ ___________ because it _________ China's sorrow

it floods
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top 3 bodies of water 1. Yellow River (Huang He)
2. Yangzi
3. West River (Xi jiang)
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tribuatries small rivers 0 porkchoppony Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:22:58 GMT view revision history
delta mouth where the river flows into sea 0 porkchoppony Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:22:58 GMT view revision history
dragon rivers have _______ and _____--- deltas
tribuatries
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southwest = tropical _________ jungle 0 porkchoppony Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:21:41 GMT view revision history
Largest desert = Taklimaken 0 porkchoppony Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:21:41 GMT view revision history
3 arms of the pacific ocean 1. yellow sea
2. east China sea
3. South china sea
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top three planes where they have
+ farming

+ population
1. North China Plain
2. Yangzl Plain
3. Canton (Gaangzhou) plain
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Tibetan plateau is located in the ___________ province sichuan 0 porkchoppony Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:20:07 GMT view revision history
China Slopes _____-- ______ west to east

think ...WE
or just the compass rose
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how much of China is more than 1 mile above sea level? 60% 0 porkchoppony Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:20:07 GMT view revision history
nomads traveling heardsmen 0 porkchoppony Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:20:07 GMT view revision history
steppe treeless, non-arable land 0 porkchoppony Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:19:14 GMT view revision history
Outer China holds the
______________ of the population
and the _____________ of the land
minority of the population
majority of the land
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China proper has two parts:
1. _________
2. ___________
north
south
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what divides china proper different climates and farming 0 porkchoppony Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:19:14 GMT view revision history
what do they grow in the south?
moist or dry climate?
name 1 river
rice
moist
Huai river
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What do they grow in the north?
what's the climate? dry/moist?
What presides here?
What mountins?
wheat
dry
great wall
inling Mountians
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China proper is __________ the size of the us and _____X its people 1/2
4x
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list the 3 municipalities beijing, tianjin, shanghai 0 porkchoppony Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:18:05 GMT view revision history
what are the autonomous regions?

They are non-
self-governing
Tibet, Inner Mongolia
Chinese
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china is divided into 3 sections 22 province
5 autonomous regions
3 municipalities
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______________ mountians pamir 0 porkchoppony Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:16:14 GMT view revision history
how many square miles is China? 3,696, 032 square miles 0 porkchoppony Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:16:14 GMT view revision history
name a symbol of wealth/beauty lily feet/finger nails 0 porkchoppony Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:14:22 GMT view revision history
list 3 dynasties shang, chou, ching, han 0 porkchoppony Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:14:22 GMT view revision history
panku
is the _______ story of china
spirits had a humanoid creatur on a lolob of matter he died
lice ----> _______________
beardd .......> _______________
creation
humans
stars
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oracle bones= "________" bones dragon 0 porkchoppony Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:14:22 GMT view revision history
what do the Chinese call china? chung ko 0 porkchoppony Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:12:43 GMT view revision history
name some different rades mongoloid, negroid, caucasoid 0 porkchoppony Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:12:43 GMT view revision history
head emperor wore ______________________ dragon on back 0 porkchoppony Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:12:43 GMT view revision history
ethnocentric their culture is the one and only right one 0 porkchoppony Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:12:43 GMT view revision history

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