ASIA!!!WOOT!

(mostly eastern)

Shinobi!!!!A.K.A. NINJAS!!!! AAHHH!!!!!Actually ninja’s weren’t originally people that wear dark clothes and go around killing people for no reason with magical abilitiesNinja’s originated in Japan as spies and assassinsThey were lower class people unlike there rivals the upper class samurai

Arranged MarriagesIt started in India when people chose their

children’s partners They did this because they didn’t want them

to marry people in a lower class then themSo this kind of created the upper and lower

class systemIt’s weird for us to arrange marriages hereBut it’s common in Asia

FOOD!Asia has a vast variety of awesome food.In Asia they belive that every dish has to have

a balance of sweet, salty, bitter, sour, and spicy.

Color is another important this to a dish

Chinese ZodiacsIt was said that there was a race to report to the Jade

EmperorThe animals that were in the race were the Rat, Ox, Tiger,

Rabbit, Dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog, and pigThe rat being the most clever jumped on the ox’s back and leaped off at the lastminute and got first placeThe pig being the laziest tooka nap and got last placeEach animal represents a month on the yearThere was also a cat who jumped on the ox with the rat but the rat really wanted to win so the rat pushed the cat off. That’s why they hate each other

One Child PolicyHaha! The government calls this the “Family

planning policy”This policy limits people to only have one

child Only  35.9% of China’s population actually

listens to this ruleThe Chinese government introduced the

policy in 1979 to help social, economic, and environmental problems

The policy has reduced population growth in the country of 1.3 billion by as much as 300 million people

The Great Wall of China!The Great Wall of

China is 6,000 miles long and more than 2,600 years old

The wall was built by Emperor Qin Shi Huang after the unification of China

It was built to protect his people from invaders.

Taj Mahul!The Taj Mahal was built by

the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan

He built it in memory of this third wife Mumtaz Mahal

Before she died her last wish was "to build a tomb in her memory such as the world had never seen before".

And he didThe construction of Taj

Mahal was started in AD 1631 and completed at the end of 1648 AD

Forbidden CityIt is located in the center

of Beijing, ChinaThe Forbidden City was

built between 1406 and 1420 during the Ming Dynasty

It had been the home for 24 emperors of the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties

After the republican revolution the palaces were abandoned in 1924

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