GEOG 200 CH 9 - Flashcards

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Which colonial power controlled a large part of northeast China from 1937-1945?

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Japan

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Which of the following statements is incorrect?

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As soon as China took over Hong Kong, the economies of both Hong Kong and Shenzhen took off.

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Taiwan was invaded by the Communist Chinese in 1949.

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False

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Guangdong Province faces the:

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South China Sea

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Japan s natural landscapes _______________________________.

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are mountainous and hilly, with flat land at a premium

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North and South Korea are in the process of reuniting into a single country.

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False

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Which of the following was not occupied by Japan during World War II?

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Siberia

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North and South Korea may be said to be in a situation of:

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regional complementarity

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North Korea has numerous industrial raw materials; the resources of the South are more agricultural.

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True

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By 2100, Japan s current population of 128 million is expected to shrink to about _____ million:

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65

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China s One-Child policy was started during Mao s regime.

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False

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The Long March took Chinese Communists from Shanghai to Taiwan.

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False

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China s total area is __________________ the conterminous United States.

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slightly smaller than that of

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South Korea has developed under a socialist system since 1945.

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False

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The SEZ located so that I can take advantage of its proximity to Southeast Asia is ______.

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Hainan

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Which of the following has not been important in the development of Shenzhen as an SEZ?

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the socialist economic principles applied by the Chinese government to its development

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Taiwan for a half-century after 1895 was under Japanese rule.

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True

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Shenzhen has now ended its role as an SEZ since Hong Kong reunified with China in 1997.

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False

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Japan s four large islands are Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, and Sakhalin.

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Flase

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The most recent Special Economic Zone created by the Chinese government is _____________.

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Binhai

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Which of the following statements about Japan is incorrect?

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Japan has numerous ethnic minorities that create significant internal strife

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The most important of China's rivers, at whose mouth lies the city of Shanghai, is the __________.

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Chang/Yangzi

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Which of the following statements is incorrect?

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The Taiwanese cannot keep pace economically with the mainland Chinese.

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Which of the following lies just across the former Chinese border from Hong Kong?

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Shenzhen

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The bulk of the population of China lives in the ______ part of the country.

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Eastern

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The leader who took over in China following the struggle after Mao's death was:

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Deng Xiaoping

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The North China Plain is dominated by the:

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lower Huang He

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Two former colonial entities that were reunited with China during the late 1990s are:

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Macau and Hong Kong

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China s Shenzhen is a Special Economic Zone.

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True

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The region in Japan best situated to do business with Korea and China is:

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Kitakyushu

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The Han Dynasty was China's formative period; Chinese still call themselves the people of Han.

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True

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Hong Kong became a Province of China in 1997

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True

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The southernmost of China s three great rivers is the:

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Xi/Pearl

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On a southwest-bound trip on Japan s high speed Tokaido bullet train out of Tokyo, the city of Nagoya is reached before Osaka.

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True

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China s largest city is:

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Shanghai

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The Nobi Plain lies between the Kansai District and the Kanto Plain.

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True

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Chinese civilization occurred independently at the same time as Greek civilization arose.

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False

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Japan s population ____________________________.

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is expected to decline over the next half-century

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Beijing, Tianjin, and Shanghai are three of China s largest cities.

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True

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The Gobi Desert is most closely associated with which Chinese region?

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Inner Mongolia

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Xizang, Xinjiang, and Inner Mongolia constitute _______________.

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China's Outer Periphery

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In order to reform their nation and economy, Japanese rulers turned to the British for advice during the Meiji Restoration.

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True

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The Yangzi River flows into the Pearl River Estuary.

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False

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The dominant economic region of China, propelled by forces of globalization, is:

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the Pacific Rim

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The politico-geographical principle under which citizens of a foreign state are exempted from the legal jurisdiction of the country in which they are present, is called __________.

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extraterritoriality

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With the single exception of Kyoto, all primary and secondary cities of Japan lie on the coast.

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True

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The name Yangzi is given to the lower course of the ______________ River.

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Chang (Jiang)

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Taiwan ranks ahead of the People s Republic of China in GNI per capita.

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True

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Xizang is part of China Proper.

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False

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The language spoken in Hong Kong and much of the Pearl River Delta is ______.

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Yue (Cantonese)

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The third stage of development in the Rostow model, in which an industrial revolution spawns sustained and self-perpetuating national economic growth, is called the __________ stage.

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takeoff

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The largest metropolitan complex in Japan is:

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Tokyo-Yokohama-Kawasaki

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In terms of coal, iron ore, and petroleum, Japan is better supplied by domestic resources than the British Isles.

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False

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Inner Mongolia is part of China.

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True

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The capital of Japan was moved:

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from Kyoto to Tokyo by the Meiji rulers

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Which of the following is the Chinese name for Tibet?

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Xizang

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Japan s largest and main island, containing the Japanese capital and almost all of its core area, is:

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Honshu

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During the 19th century all but which of the following countries had a concession in China.

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Spain

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Mongolia is a good example of a buffer state.

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True

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The upland located in the central Huang Basin which is composed of thick, highly-fertile, wind-borne soil deposits (probably from the nearby Ordos Desert) is known as the __________ Plateau.

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Loess

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Ulaanbaatar is Mongolia s largest city.

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True

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The dynasty of the period from about 200 B.C. to A.D. 200 was so influential in the formation of China that most Chinese today still consider themselves the people of __________.

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Han

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Taiwan was at one time a colony of:

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Japan

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The Great Leap Forward reorganized peasant agriculture into communal brigades

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True

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Japan s population is growing at a steady rate.

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False

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The Xinjiang region:

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is the home of the Uyghur people

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Xianggang _________________.

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is the Chinese name for Hong Kong

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Which of the following regions has been known as and is sometimes still called Manchuria by uninformed foreigners?

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Northeast China

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Which of the following is not a Shi.

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Chengdu

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Xinjiang and Xizang are two of the most densely populated regions of China Proper.

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False

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Japan forged a major colonial empire in Asia during the first half of the twentieth century.

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True

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About 75 percent of Taiwan's population lives in rural areas.

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False

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Which of these Special Economic Zones is located across the Huangpu River from Shanghai?

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Pudong

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In comparing climates of the USA with those in China, which of the following is incorrect?

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Japan has both C as well as A climates.

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The capital of Taiwan is Taipei.

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True

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Japan s recent economic problems are a result of all of the following except:

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three major earthquakes since 1990 that resulted in 200,000 deaths and billions of yen in losses

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The outcome of the Korean War in the 1950s was:

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a military stalemate resulting in the continued division of the country

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Which of these statements about Mongolia is incorrect?

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It wishes to be unified with China.

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Which of the following is not located in Northeast China?

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the ancient city of Xian

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China s current population is closest to:

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1.3 billion

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The two major cities on the North China Plain are:

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Beijing and Tianjin

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Japan s leading region of urbanization and industry (and agriculture as well) is the:

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Kanto Plain

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The main river serving the hinterland of Shanghai is the:

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Chang-Yangzi

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Taiwan is currently ___________.

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an independent political entity in East Asia

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China has more Provinces than the USA has States.

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False

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Japan's climate contains no B climate.

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True

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The former Portuguese colony that is today a Special Administrative Region is ________.

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Macau

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Mao Zedong s proclamation creating the communist People s Republic of China was announced in:

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1949

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To symbolize modernization, the Meiji rulers shifted the capital from Kyoto to Tokyo.

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True

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The country of the people of Han is ______.

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China

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Which of the following is not one of China s Autonomous Regions:

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Chongqing

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The fortified political boundary separating the two Koreas has done little to halt trade and population movements between the two political entities.

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False

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Japan s unique modernization pathway was most likely assisted by _________.

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its relative location to other industrialized countries

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Japan s territorial dispute with Russia is over four small islands in the Kurile Island chain.

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True

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Hong Kong was a former British colony.

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True

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Powdery wind-blown soil formed from pulverization by glaciers is called:

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loess

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Taiwan is located off the coast of:

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China

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The island of Hokkaido lies outside of Japan s core area.

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True

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Japan s second-largest city, Osaka, is located in the __________ District.

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Kansai

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Which river is found in Guangdong Province?

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Pearl

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The leader of the legendary Long March through interior China was __________.

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Mao Zedong

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Before the Meiji Restoration, Japan s capital city was:

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Kyoto

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China s population has many more women than men.

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False

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The economies of North and South Korea are complementary and both states would have much to gain by reunification.

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True

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The Meiji Restoration _________________________.

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marked the beginning of Japan's modernization and generated its economic and military transformation

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The Huang He:

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almost encircles the Ordos Desert

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A movement of great upheaval known as the __________ was launched by Mao Zedong in the late 1960s to prevent revisionism and rekindle enthusiasm for the Chinese Communist system.

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(Great Proletarian) Cultural Revolution

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Which of the following statements is incorrect?

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Most Japanese are live in northern most Hokkaido island.

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Which city is located in the last outpost of the Republic of China, which was first proclaimed in 1912:

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Taipei

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South Korea s growth has resulted from an economic system described as:

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state capitalism

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