Geography
A group of islands, like Japan.
What is an archipelago?
This Chinese philosophy emphasized respect for family, elders, proper behavior, Ren, and Li.
What is Confucianism?
One of the many inventions of China's Golden Age.
What is: (Any 3 of these) Woodblock printing, movable type, gunpowder, the compass, paper money, porcelain, fast-ripening rice, dragon backbone pump, or paper?
This dynasty reunited China after the Period of Disunion.
What is the Sui Dynasty?
One of two Chinese luxury goods that were highly desired by traders around the world.
What is (either of these) silk or porcelain?
These trained warriors served powerful landowners in feudal Japan.
Who are the Samurai?
Japan’s tallest mountain and most famous volcano.
What is Mt. Fuji?
This Chinese philosophy taught that people were naturally bad and needed strict laws and control.
What is Legalism?
These two dynasties made up China’s Golden Age.
What are the Tang and Song dynasties?
This (grandbaby) Mongol ruler didn't initiate the invasion but eventually became emperor of China and ruled the Yuan Dynasty.
Who is Kublai Khan?
This crop helped China produce more food and support a much larger population during the Song Dynasty.
What is "fast-ripening" rice?
These powerful Japanese landowners controlled land and hired samurai to fight for them.
Who is Daimyo?
This geographic feature covers much of Japan and leaves relatively little flat land for farming.
What are mountains?
This religion teaches reincarnation and the goal of reaching Nirvana.
What is Buddhism?
This massive waterway built by the Sui helped connect northern and southern China.
What is the Grand Canal?
This former monk led the rebellion that defeated Mongol rule and founded the Ming Dynasty.
Who is Zhu Yuanzhang?
This famous trade route became safer and more active under Mongol rule, due to them controlling all of Asia.
What is the Silk Road?
The most famous ruler of the Tang Dynasty.
Who is Empress Wu?
These are the two major seas that border China.
What are the East China and South China Seas?
This traditional Japanese religion focuses on nature and spirits known as kami.
What is Shinto/Shintoism?
This Ming explorer led massive voyages across the Indian Ocean.
Who is Zheng He?
In feudal Japan, this military ruler held the real political power while the emperor often served mainly as a figurehead.
Who is the shogun?
Yuan rulers collected large amounts of this from the Chinese people to help pay for roads, canals, and government projects.
What are taxes?
In Japan’s military society, this group remained at the top symbolically, even when military leaders held most of the real power.
Who is the emperor?
The mountain range that separates Asia from Europe.
What are the Ural Mountains?
This Chinese philosophy taught that people should live simply and in harmony with the natural way of the universe.
What is Daoism?
This Japanese author wrote The Tale of Genji, considered one of the world’s first novels.
Who is Murasaki Shikibu?
Failed invasions of Japan, internal conflict, heavy taxes, and Chinese rebellion all contributed to this Chinese dynasty falling.
What is the Yuan (Mongol) dynasty?
This is a staple of Japanese cuisine/diet due to their unique geography.
What is seafood?
This man helped reunite China during the Sui dynasty by building the Grand Canal.
Who is Yang Jian?
Three geographic features that Japan and China share.
What are Mountains, Plains, & Rivers?
This sect of a religion emphasizes direct experience, self-discipline, and awakening through silent meditation.
What is Zen Buddhism?
Three achievements of the later 5 Chinese dynasties.
What is: (Any 3 of these) Woodblock printing, movable type, gunpowder, the compass, paper money, porcelain, fast-ripening rice, dragon backbone pump, paper, the grand canal, the silk road (reopening), etc.?
This landowning class of feudal Japan grew tired of the lack of government help and rose up to take over Japan.
What is Daimyo (leader titled Shogun)?
One thing that Japan took from China through cultural diffusion.
Reminder - cultural diffusion is the process by which cultural items, ideas, practices, and technologies spread from one group or region to another.
What is (any of these) confucianism, buddhism, government, or architecture?
The social structure of Japan's Feudal system.
What is Shogun -> Emperor -> Daimyo -> Samurai -> Peasants?