Vocabulary for Chapter 4 Lessons 2-3

For many centuries until the early 1900s, rulers known as emperors or empresses governed China. China was ruled by a single family of rulers or a ___________________. This would hold power until it was overthrown.

• samurai

• dynasty

• president

• royal family

In the United States a Military Leader has many different names, such as commander-in-chief or supreme commander. In Ancient China, the military leaders were called ________________________-.

• leader

• chief

• samurai

• shogun

Landowning warriors, who were called ____________________, supported the shogun.

• chief

• dynasty

• leader

• samurai

By the early 1800s, internal problems had weakened China. Meanwhile, European countries were growing more powerful. By the 1890s, European countries and Japan claimed large areas of China.

A _____________________________________ is an area of a country where a single foreign power has been granted exclusive trading rights.

• county

• sphere of influence

• region

• circle of trade

Mao Zedong gained support from Chinese farmers. Mao believed in ______________________ a system in which the government controls all economic goods and services.

• democracy

• theocracy

• controlled government

• communism

How can a new dynasty form?

• they conquer

• an old dynasty must be overthrown

• they must get voted in

• the past dynasty elects them

What led to the growth of China's economy beginning in the 1970s?

• China found a rare resource and their economy spiked

• China expanded their trade more

• other nations were collapsing and China's economy grew

• China's leader introduced reforms that allowed more features of a market economy to develop alongside the communist economy

Throughout China's history, most of its people lived off the land as farmers. Economic reforms in the late 1970s, however, caused a surge of _______________________________. Millions of peasants left their farms and moved to booming cities in eastern China.

• urbanization

• travelling

• buying houses

• megalopolis

The cities of Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, and Yokohama form a _____________________________, or supersized urban area, along the coast.

• urban area

• big city

• megalopolis

• super city

What are the countries that make up East Asia

• japan, russia, china, north korea, south korea

• india, china, north korea, south korea, taiwan

• china, taiwan, japan, north korea, south korea, mongolia

• russia, mongolia, japan, china, taiwan, india