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What we know about China:. Bejing – 2008 Olympics Industries “Made in China” “Indo” China Communist – government Population Fortune cookies, rice, eat cats and dogs? Speak Chinese Great wall and silk road Pingpong , gymnastics, fighters Dynasties (Ming). What do we want to know?. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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What we know about China: Bejing – 2008 Olympics Industries “Made in China” “Indo” China Communist – government Population Fortune cookies, rice, eat cats and dogs? Speak Chinese Great wall and silk road Pingpong, gymnastics, fighters Dynasties (Ming)
What do we want to know? Pandas Music Fireworks/celebrations Myths Exports Dragons Culture Language Religions Sports
Basics Largest population – 1.3 BILLION 20% of the world’s people 90% of people live in 1/6 of the
land. 3rd Largest in land mass
3.7 Million Sq. Miles Behind Russia, Canada
60% of all workers = farmers World’s oldest LIVING civilization
Zhonggou Ancient name for China Means “middle” & “kingdom” Still common name today Two SEPARATE GOV’Ts
Split in a 1949 after civil war between the Communists led by Mao Zedong and the Nationalists led by Chiang Kaishek
Mao and the Communists defeated the Nationalists○ The Nationalists fled to…..
Taiwan- Taiwan is known as the Republic of China today
Mao set up the…○ PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA (Communist)
Includes Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau
DIVERSE LANDSTEPPE Very little rain
Treeless grassland, SHORT grass
Northern China near Gobi Desert
Grazing land for sheep and ponies
Sparsely populated
DIVERSE LANDRIVERS Many begin in western mountains, flow eastward toward China’s east
coast. Fertile soil surrounds river and 90% of China’s population lives here.
Yangtze (Chang Jiang R) 3rd Longest in world behind
○ Nile, Amazon) 4,000 Miles Longest in Central China Also, known as the “rice bowl”
Yellow Huang He
Longest in Northern China 3,000 Miles Carries yellowish topsoil
known as loess Floods, cause great
destruction○ 1931 flood may have killed
up to four million people Nickname = “China’s Sorrow” Three Gorges Dam built on
river○ Supplies 10% of China’s
energy○ 300 million live downstream
from dam