east asia
Across
- 3. business cycle contraction which results in a general slowdown in economic activity
- 6. the countries and regions bordering the Pacific Ocean,small nations of eastern Asia
- 8. the capital of North Korea
- 12. a factory or workshop
- 13. a line of hereditary rulers of a country
- 14. hydroelectric dam that spans the Yangtze River by the town of Sandouping
- 15. the capital of South Korea,located in the northwestern part of the country
- 18. Taiwan,South Korea,andJapan
- 20. unsuccessful rebellion in China in 1900,the objective of which was to drive out all foreigners, remove all foreign influence,and compel Chinese Christians to give up their religion
- 22. a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs
- 23. a religion of eastern and central Asia growing out of the teaching of Siddhartha Gautama that suffering is inherent in life and that one can be liberated from it by cultivating wisdom
Down
- 1. a river flowing W China into the gulf of Bohai
- 2. a long high sea wave caused by an earthquake,submarine landslide,or other disturbance
- 4. A nickname given to the economies of Southeast Asia
- 5. a tropical storm in the region of the Indian or western Pacific oceans
- 7. another name for Yangtze
- 9. a barren plateau in southern Mongolia and northern China
- 10. the interdependent economies of the world's nations,regarded as a single economic system
- 11. a territorial area within which the political influence or the interests of one nation are held to be more
- 12. a member of a powerful military caste in feudal Japan
- 14. the tripartite division of China between the states of Wei, Shu, and Wu, following the Han dynasty and preceding the Jin dynasty
- 16. a system of philosophical and ethical teachings founded by Confucius and developed by Mencius
- 17. a place to dispose of refuse,other waste material by burying it and covering it over with soil
- 19. a mountain range in China, bordering on the edge of the Tibetan plateau across central China highest peak
- 21. ZEDONG Chinese chairman of the Communist Party of the Chinese People's Republic