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Physical
Cháng Jiāng (Yangtze River)
East China Sea
Gobi Desert
Himalayas
Huáng Hé (Yellow River)
Kúnlún Shān
Manchuria
North China Plain
Features
o Plateau of Tibet
o Red Basin
o South China Sea
o Taiwan
o Taiwan Strait
o Taklimakan Desert
o Tiān Shān
o Yellow Sea
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COUNTRIES CAPITALS
China
o Beijing
Mongolia
o Ulaanbaatar
Taiwan
o Taipei
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MAJOR
Guangzhou
Harbin
Macao (Macau)
CITIES
o Nanjing
o Shanghai
o Xi’an
Key Terms / Concepts / Events o Feeding a Large Population
 paddy
 intensive agriculture
 double cropping
 aquaculture
o Writing
 pictograms
 calligraphy
o Major Philosophies / Concepts
 Taoism (Daoism)
 Confucianism
- Mandarins
- imperial examination system
 Buddhism
 Mandate of Heaven
o Century of Humiliation (Shame)
 Opium War / Treaty Ports
 Foreign Spheres of Influence
 Civil War & World War II
o Communism
 Communes
 Great Leap Forward
 Cultural Revolution
 Special Economic Zones (SEZ)
 martial law
Key People
o Yŭ the Engineer / Emperor Yŭ
o Lăo Tzŭ (Lăozĭ)
o Kŭng Fūtzŭ (Kŏng Fūzĭ; Confucius)
o Han Feitzŭ (Legalism)
o Qin Shihuangdi
o Dr. Sun Yat-sen
o Chiang Kai-shek (Jiang Jieshi)
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Mao Zedong
Chinese Inventions / Contributions
o compass
o crossbow
o gunpowder / fireworks
o iron plow
o paper
Concepts
o Influence of geography on China
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How the major philosophies (Daoism, Confucianism, Communism) shaped China
Mandarins and bureaucracy in the functioning of government
Influence of / reaction to foreign (European and Japanese) interest in China
Challenges facing China in the future
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