China Reunifies
Achievements and Inventions
Confucianism
Yuan Dynasty
Ming Dynasty
100

This Tang ruler strengthen the government by adding more officials and empowering the military.

Who is Empress Wu?

100
This invention revolutionized navigation by using the Earth's magnetic field to show direction.
What is the compass?
100

Confucianism began to gain popularity and eventually developed into Neo-Confucianism during this dynasty.

What is the Song Dynasty?

100

The Mongol clans chose this person to unify and lead them in creating the largest land mass empire.

Who is Genghis Khan?

100
This amazing palace complex contained 9,000 rooms.
What is the Forbidden City?
200
This was a time of chaos and unrest that followed the collapse of the Han dynasty.
What was the Period of Disunion?
200
This fragile material was used to create beautiful vases.
What is porcelain?
200

This is a Confucius phrase which means respect and loyalty to the family.

What is filial piety?

200

Much of what our knowledge about the Yuan dynasty comes from the journals of this Italian merchant and explorer.

Who is Marco Polo?

200
He was the greatest mariner of the Ming Dynasty and led fleets comprised of over 60 ships.
Who is Zheng He?
300

Despite bringing peace to suffering, a Tang emperor burned texts, took land, and destroyed temples, in an effort to eliminate this.

What was Buddhism?

300
China's population grew to nearly 100 million due to this advantageous situation created by advances in irrigation and agriculture.
What is a food surplus?
300

People had to pass a series of difficult tests to earn this position as an educated member of the government.

What is a scholar-official?

300

The Mongol Empire was know for being the largest of these.

What is land mass empire?


300

Because it was too expensive and unworthy occupation, the Ming leaders put an end to this industry.

What is the Shipping industry?

400

This dynasty helped start the reunification of China.

What was the Sui Dynasty?

400

Huge amounts of trade goods were carried on this which linked many major cities and rivers in China.

What is the Grand Canal?

400

According to Confucius, good government depended on this. 

What are wise leaders?

400
Officers in Genghis Khan's army were chosen for this.

What was their abilities?

400
China lost control of some parts of their empire to the advancing Western world, partially due to this policy in which a nation intentionally cuts off contact with other countries.
What is isolationism?
500

This dynasty used a civil service exam to establish a new scholar-official class.

What was the Song Dynasty?

500

The Tang and Song Dynasty invented or discovered gunpowder and this unchangeable method of printing.

What is woodblock printing?

500

The civil service exam was instituted in China because they wanted government officials to be chosen for this.

What are their abilities or skills?

500

In 1279, this Mongol leader completed the conquest of China by defeating the southern Song Dynasty to start the Yuan Dynasty.

Who is Kublai Khan?

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500

Ming Emperors used this strategy to become more powerful than their Song and Tang predecessors.

What is abolishing the offices of many government officials.

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