China, Korea, Japan

Question 0

About 92% of the people in China are what ethnicity?

Answer 0

Han

Question 1

Name the two main rivers of China.

Answer 1

Huang He(Yellow) and Chang (Yangtze)

Question 2

Name 4 important contributions to technology by the Chinese.

Answer 2

gunpowder, paper, printing, magnetic compass

Question 3

Who was responsible for uniting local states into a united China and as a result was named the “first emperor”

Answer 3

Emperor Shih Huang Ti

Question 4

What Chinese dynasty does the name China derive from?

Answer 4

Qin (China)

Question 5

What is the largest city in China?

Answer 5

Shanghai

Question 6

What religion presents the world as a competition between yin and yang?

Answer 6

Taoism

Question 7

What is the name of the man whose teaching is the basis for Taoism?

Answer 7

Lao Zi

Question 8

Is the terrain and climate of East Asia consistently the same or varied?

Answer 8

Varied. Everything from tropical to subarctic with many mountains and plateaus.

Question 9

What is the capital of Mongolia?

Answer 9

Ulaanbaatar

Question 10

What is the capital of Taiwan?

Answer 10

Taipei

Question 11

What is the capital of China?

Answer 11

Beijing

Question 12

Does the climate of South Korea permit one or two rice crops a year?

Answer 12

Their climate is warm enough year around that it allows them to harvest two crops in one year.

Question 13

What is the name of Mongolia that is controlled by China?

Answer 13

Inner Mongolia (Nei Mongol)

Question 14

What are the name of the tiny islands that the Chinese Nationalists claim in addition to Taiwan?

Answer 14

Quemoy and Matsu

Question 15

What is the religion of North Korea?

Answer 15

Juche (Kimilsungism)

Question 16

What do the Japanese people refer to their country as?

Answer 16

Nippon

Question 17

What are the names of the largest 4 islands?

Answer 17

Kyushu, Shikoku, Honshu, Hokkaido (can you locate them on a map?)

Question 18

What is the official name of South Korea?

Answer 18

The Republic of Korea

Question 19

What is the oldest European colony is Asia, founded by the Portuguese in 1557?

Answer 19

Macau

Question 20

Which leader established the first republic in China?

Answer 20

Sun Yat-sen

Question 21

What is the name of Tibetan Buddhism and who is named after?

Answer 21

Lamaism, Dali Lama

Question 22

Japan borrowed these from China but what are the names of their governmental divisions?

Answer 22

prefectures

Question 23

Can you explain and do you understand the growth of China from a backward pawn of European imperialists to a the current driving force in world economy now? (Boxer Rebellion?Sun-yatsen? Mao Zedong? Deng Xiaoping?Communists?

Answer 23

Study the question for some ideas on the essay

Question 24

Can you locate the capitals and other important cities for Koreas, Japan, China, Taiwan

Answer 24

Pyongyang, Seoul, Tokyo, Hong Kong

Question 25

What is the name for East Asia?

Answer 25

Pacific Rim