Vocab
Person who moves from place to place without a home
What is a nomad?
the ability to let light pass through
What is translucense?
Mongols settled in this area in Central Asia
What is the Mondolgian plateau
Rebuilt and improved the Great Wall of China
Who is the Ming Dynasty?
What is the system of hierarchy in 1200 Japan called?
What is feudalism
Group of families with a common ancestor
What is a clan?
The spread of traits, ideas and products of a culture
What is cultural diffusion?
this was a place of isolation for the Chinese Emporers
What is the Forbidden City?
This si the lowest class on the hierarchy of Japanese society
Who are peasants?
The belief that even plants and inanimate objects have spirits
What is animism?
Highly trained Japanese warrior in feudal Japan
Who are Samurai?
This trade route was so safe when the Mongols reopened it, it was said that you could travel from one end to the other with a gold bar on your head and it would never be touched.
Silk Road
As with the Chinese, Korean officials had to take this to be appointed?
What are civil service exams?
The title of the Worlds first novel
What is Tale of Genji?
Powerful Japanese military leader who often had more power than the Emperor
What is a shogun?
A group of Islands
What is an archipelago?
Greatest and first Khan
Who is Genghis Khan?
What were the two main belief systems in China?
Buddhism and Confucianism
This group attacked the Japanese 2X and did not succeed
Who are the Mongols?
The highest class or group of people in a society
What is aristocracy?
The basic that everything in nature contains Kami
What is Shintoism?
The new Korean writing system invented by Korean scholars
What is Hangul?
Government workers and wealthy land owners
Who are the daimyo?