Geography
The biggest river in China
What is the Yangtze River?
This dynasty believed in ancestrial worship
Who is The Shang Dynasty?
carried goods on the Silk Road between China and western countries
Who are nomads like monks and missionaries
He started construction of the Great Wall and created the Terra Cotta Soldiers
Who is Emperor Qin?
warriors that protected Japanese nobles
samurai
The place where the Indian civilization began
poems, songs and hyms left behind by the Aryans
What are Vedas?
In China, paper was cheaper when made out of
A powerful family or group of people who have leadership of a country through several generations
What is dynasty?
people joined together for a common purpose
ally
A large group of islands
What is an archipelago?
THe goal of Buddhism
What is Nirvana?
The Forbidden City had this many people live there
24
Spread buddhism to millions of people in India and Asia while he was king
Who is Asoka
The first Europeans to come to Japan
Portuguese
a large scale wind storm in India
Monsoon
The belief that everything in nature has a spirit
What is animism/shintoism
These have roofs that curve up
pagodas
This is a legal and social system where the rich and powerful leaders make contracts with warriors for protection
Military leaders in Japan
shogun
IS surrounded on 3 sides by water
Founder of Buddhism
Who is Siddhartha Guatama
Has symbols for sounds, not whole words
Japanese writing
What is the Han Dynasty?
Another name for Dalit
Untouchable