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• What are the eastern sub-regions?

  China , Japan, Korea, Mongolia
• what is the so-called Republic of CHINA?

  Taiwan
• What are the people's republic of China?

  Macau & Hong Kong
• Which country was given freedom by China?

  Vietnam
• What is the largest country in East Asia and has largest population in the world?

  China
• What country is called the "land of the rising sun"?

  Japan
• What does Nippon/Nihon mean?

  source of sun
• Which country has the most advanced technology?

  Japan
• What counrty has 2 parts?

  korea
• What country is called a landlocked country due to its geological location?

  Mongolia
• What is the term for people who don't have a permanent home? (mongolians)

  Nomadic
• What is Mongolia called?

  "Land of eternal blue sky"
• What kind of early human was discovered in china and when did it appear?

  1. Peking man
  2. 680,000 - 780,000
• Type of homo erectus in which it was the first to use fire

  Peking Man
• What are the Chinese dynasties?

  1. Qin
  2. Tang
  3. Yuan
• which dynasty was the language & writing made consistently and the use of systemized currency?

  Qin dynasty
• what was the first currency used in china?

  Ban liang
• What were the designs in the ban liang?

  Zhu Zhong yi Liang / pearls heavy one liang
• Which dynasty did painting in hand scrolls used?

  Tang dynasty
• Why did the hand scrolls of the tang dynasty become popular?

  because of their relish and convenience in mobility
• what do the paintings in hand scrolls show?

  history & meaning
• which dynasty did landscape painting?

  Yuan dynasty
• how did they describe landscape painting?

  high art for "like-minded' individuals"
• who made landscapes in the yuan dynasty?

  Ch'ing yen T'ang Tai
• what is an important form of art in China, which is aesthetically pleasing and can be for personal and political expression?

  Chinese calligrapghy
• what japanese writing system was influenced by the chinese?

  kanji
• how many letters are there in kanji?

  1000
• what recent writing systems were combined with kanji?

  hiragana & katakana
• What recent japanese writing system was cursive and the basics of japanese?

  hiragana
• what recent writing system was latin script?

  katakana
• What Japanese woodblock art print is the most popular?

  Ukiyo-e
• Who mastered the ukiyo-e?

  huko sai
• what is the term for paper folding?

  origami
• where did the origami come from?


  "ori" & "kami"
• What does "ori" mean?

  to fold
• what does "kami" mean?

  paper
• what part of the noshi fold is said to have good fortune?

  strip of abalone
• what model of origami is the most famous?

  japanese crane
• termed as japanese comics or graphic novels which existed in the 12th century

  manga
• what was the early form of manga which animals do humanly activities?

  Choju-giga