Chinese Map Quiz

Aanyang

• capital of Shang dynasty (16th century - 1040s BCE)

• oracle bones, sacrifices, tombs

Beijing

• capital of many dynasties

• ming moved capital from nanjing to beijing

• has the forbidden city

• capital of prc

Chang’ an '/ Xi’an

• capital of tang dynasty

• name meant peace in the west

Chongqing

• wartime capital of nationalist during fight against japanese

Fujian Province

Guangzhou (Canton)

• British smuggled opium into china through this city

• __ system

canton system

• trade policy by Qing 1757-1842

• restricted foreign trade to the port of Canton

Hangzhou

• new capital of southern song dynasty

Hong Kong

• ceded to Britain in 1842

• became british colony

The Huai River

Jiangxi Province

• first major base for Chinese comm party (CCP)

Kaifeng

• urban center of northern song

Luoyang

• tang capital

• built by duke of zhou

Manchuria

• qing dynasty founded by manchus

• natural resources taken by Japan in , like a colony

• mukden incident

Macau

• first portuguese settlement in china

• place for foreigners to come and learn before being sent to the asian countries

Nanjing

• nationalist set capital here after northern expedition

• ____ massacre, japanese took this city

Shandong Province/Peninsula

• confucius family here, kong complex in qufu

• occcupied by germany, triggered boxer rebellion

Shanghai

Shenyang (Mukden)

• japanese attacked this city on 9/18/1931

• the september 18th incident

• manchurian warlord told not to fight back

• beginning of anti Japanese war (kinda)

Sichuan Province

• major site of rebellion

Taiwan

• republic of china defeated by comm and fled here

• ROC continues there

• dutch held as colony for a while

Tianjin

Tibet

• powerful neighbor of china for a while, rose during sui tang time

• taken by qing/manchus

Xinjiang

• manchus took this region from muslim groups living there

The Yangzi/Yangtze River:

• linked to others by grand canal

The Yellow River

• 2nd longest river in china

• great river system in north

Yan’an/Yen’an

• city where ccp settled and grew 1934-36

• retreated here, known as long march

• 2nd united front