Vocabulary
The largest continent on Earth, covering about 1/3 of Earth's surface
What is Asia?
He built the Taj Mahal for his late wife.
Who is Shah Jahan?
Its rulers reunified the country, but imposed high taxes and forced labor.
What is the Sui dynasty?
Invented in China by pressing strips of bamboo.
What is paper?
Capital of China
What is Beijing?
A palace complex for VIPs, built during the Ming dynasty in China.
What is the Forbidden City?
His name was Temujin before nomads renamed him "universal ruler."
Who is Genghis Khan?
It had the first known use of gunpowder, fractions, and mechanical clocks.
What is the Song dynasty?
A man-made system connecting waterways.
What are canals?
The Huns and Muslims conquered this major Asian country.
What is India?
VIPs; powerful people with money
What are aristocrats?
Who is Wu Hou?
A philosopher claimed having a woman rule would be as unnatural as having "a hen crow like a rooster at daybreak."
What is the Tang dynasty?
Constructed to provide protection.
What is the Great Wall?
Southeastern Asian countries ruled by the Khmer.
What are Cambodia and Laos?
The most powerful samurai
What is/are daimyo?
Genghis Khan's grandson who conquered southern China and Burma by 1280.
Who is Kublai Khan?
Included reinforcements to the Great Wall.
What is the Ming dynasty?
Allowed books to be reprinted so more people could read.
What is block printing?
What is Angkor?
Hindu word meaning god-king.
What is a deva-raja?
Chinese explorer who made several voyages.
Who is Zheng He?
First time China had a non-Chinese ruler.
What is the Mongol dynasty?
Improved agricultural production, armor and building.
What is iron?
The shoguns allowed trading out of only one port.
What is Nagasaki?