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Chapter 6
Countries of the Far East
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History
5th Grade
10/02/2013

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the fractional part of the world's population that lives in China
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Adoniram Hudson
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"Father of American Missions"
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Bangkok
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the capital of Thailand
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Beijing
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the capital of China
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Ch'in dynasty
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where China got its name
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Chiang Kai-shek
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Nationalist Chinese leader
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China
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world's third largest country
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Communist nation
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what all of Korea became at the end of the Vietnam War
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Confucius
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Chinese philosopher and teacher
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Gobi
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world's coldest desert (outside Antarctica)
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Grand Canal
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world's longest man-made waterway
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Great Silk Road
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trade route between China and the Roman Empire
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Greenland
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world's largest island
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Hirohito
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Emperor of Japan
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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two cities in Japan
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Huang He
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the river valley where ancient Chinese civilization began
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Hudson Taylor
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"Father of Faith Missions"
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Indonesia
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often referred to as the "spice islands" or "East Indies"
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Japan
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where the bullet train is found
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John Stam
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a missionary who was martyred in Communist China
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Manila
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the capital of the Philippines
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Mao Tse-tung
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Communist Chinese leader
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Marco Polo
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the Italian trader who wrote a book about his experiences in China once he returned to Europe
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Mongol
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the largest empire in history
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Mt. Fuji
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Japan's most famous landmark
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North Korea
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remained communists at the end of the Korean War
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Seoul
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the capital of South Korea
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Shih Huang Ti
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the emperor who ordered the completion of the Great Wall of China
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Singapore
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the capital of Singapore
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Taipei
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the capital of Taiwan
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Taiwan
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where the Nationalists fled after the Communist takeover of mainland China
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Thailand
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only Southeast Asian country never under European rule
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Tiananmen Square
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where a move for freedom was brutally crushed in 1989
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Tokyo
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world's largest city
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Tokyo
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the capital of Japan and the largest city in the world
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pagoda
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a Chinese tower with many stories, each with its own roof
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rice
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the main food crop of China
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the "Land of the Rising Sun"
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Japan
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