The Tang and Song Dynasties
Two inventions from the Tang and Song dynasties.
What is the magnetic compass, gunpowder, paper money, and porcelaion?
Who is Genghis Khan?
The grandson of Genghis Khan.
Who is Kublai Khan?
This is a religious belief meaning "way of the gods."
What is Shinto?
What is Angkor Wat?
A printer that could arrange blocks of individual characters in a frame to make up a page for printing.
What is movable type?
The vocabulary term for nomadic peoples who herded domesticated animals.
What is pastoralists?
The name given to the new Chinese dynasty while under the rule of Kublai Khan.
What is the Yuan Dynasty?
The idea of adopting cultural practices or beliefs from another country. (Especially seen by Japanese under Prince Shotoku)
What is cultural borrowing?
Style of Korean pottery famous for its silky green glaze.
What is Celadon pottery?
The name of the Dynasty immediately preceding the Tang dynasty.
What is the Sui dynasty?
The name for Mongol Peace from the mid-1200s to the mid-1300s.
What is Pax Mongolica?
The cause of the failure of the second largest naval fleet in history. About 150,000 Mongol, Chinese, and Korean warriors were swept away.
What is the kamikaze or "divine wind"?
Era in Japanese history of refined court society from 794-1185. Society lived according to many rules such as length of swords, forms of address, and number of skirts a woman wore.
What is the Heian period?
Two countries that heavily influenced culture in Southeast Asia and Korea.
What are India and China?
The name of the class of powerful, well-to-do people.
What is the gentry?
The name for a Mongol regional division ruled by a descendant of Genghis Khan.
What is a Khanate?
The young Venetian trader on Kublai Khan's court. Wrote about the wonders and successes of the Yuan Dynasty under Kublai Khan's rule.
Who is Marco Polo?
Supreme general of the emperor's army
What is a shogun?
Korean dynasty that did not have increased social mobility under the civil service system.
What is the Koryu dynasty?
The name of the Chinese emperor that founded the Tang dynasty, expanded China, promoted foreign trade, and promoted improvements in agriculture.
Who is Tang Taizong?
This is the Khanate that lasted the longest. Eventually is was taken down by Ivan III. It is the Mongol Khanate that ruled in modern day Russia.
What is the Khanate of the Golden Horde?
This is the dynasty that would replace the Yuan dynasty after it was overthrown in 1368.
What is the Ming dynasty?
Code of behavior by which Samurai were expected to live. ("Way of the warrior")
What is Bushido?
The measurement of Angkor Wat's foundation.
What is one square mile?