What preceded the Qing and seceded the Yuan dynasty
100
Eight Banners
What is the most famous of Manchu institutions
100
The Mongols and Chinese used this system to help unify their regions. It was not their original idea.
What is the Banner system
100
Europeans and Americans enjoyed this export from China
What is Tea
200
Jurchen
What are the ancestors of Manchus?
200
The Manchus were able to be foreign....of China
Who were foreign leaders of Chinas?
200
Women can only do this through marriage
What is the only way women can change their banner affiliation?
200
The Manchus were at the top of the pyramid while the Mongols followed second and third in this system.
Was there a system of classification and hierarchy in the 8 banners?
200
The Manchu, Mongolian, and Chinese all excercised their language under what dynasty.
What is Qing Dynasty
300
The Manchus created this "political" system.
What is Bannerman
300
Jurchen way of Life
What is pastoral way of life mixed with sedentary; hunting and fishing with nomadic agriculture and some trade.
300
In social practice, all peoples of Mongols, Chinese, and Manchus were all considered Bannermen, even if they were not soldiers.
Who were considered the Bannerman in China?
300
The accumulation of assets and, gradually, military and political power, in the hands of a relative few was endorsed by the government to keep chiefs and leaders in the same....?
What is staying in the family?
300
This could occur in a number of ways. Through adoption, marriage, or official promotion, without taking into account ethnicity, people were able to move around in this system.
What is ethnicity in the Banner system.
400
Genghis Khan loved this activity for exercise and leisure.
What is hunting
400
These small contingents that Jurchen hunters were grouped into were called....
What is niru
400
These were two crucial materials for Genghis Kahn that he could not afford slip ups.
What is water and food
400
From the Jurchen Niru, they were transformed into formal military organizations and larger divisions called ....
What is gusa or "banners"
400
It is believed that the banner system traced its origins to the methods used conducting large scale hunts and not a ....
What is no founding myth for eight banners
500
The Imperial Guard
What is an elite group in the Eight Banners
500
in 1642, there were a certain amount of banners in the banner system at the time, split between three factions.
What are 24 banners in the banner system
500
These were hereditary, but often dropped one or more ranks when passed to the next generation. The best known of such titles were those awarded to the so-called Princes of the Iron Cap.
What is Titles?
500
A regime of conquest, a result of the invasion of China and the destruction of the Ming empire in the middle 1600's.
What is the Qing dynasty
500
Prominent among the conquest elite-and difficult at many junctures to distinguish from "Manchus" of various periods were groups called