Topic 12 Lesson 1
A system of gonvernment with many departments and bureaus led by appointed officials.
What is bureaucracy?
A person who moves from place to place at different times of the year.
What is a nomad?
A devoice with a magnetized piece of metal that points to the north.
What is a compass?
The term for a chain of islands.
What is an archipelago?
A symbolic leader who rules only in public, while someone else is really in control.
What is a figurehead?
Highly educated men who passed the civil service examinations.
What are scholar-officials?
The greatest Mongol leader who sought to rule China.
Who is Genghis Khan?
In which workers carved text into blocks of wood, which were then covered in ink and pressed on paper to print a page.
What is block printing?
An area that is part of a larger continent.
What is mainland?
Japanese supreme military commander.
What is a shogun?
The only woman to rule China on her own.
Who is Wu Zhao?
A payment or gift to a more powerful country.
What is tribute?
A religion based on the teachings of the Indian spiritual leader Siddhartha Gautama.
What is Buddhism?
A group of people with a common ancestor.
What is a clan?
Local land-owning lords in Ancient Japan.
What is a daimyo?
A system in which people are hired and promoted based on talent and skills rather than wealth or social status.
What is a merit system? / What is a meritocracy?
The part of the Mongol empire ruled Russia for more than 100 years.
What is the Golden Horde?
A system of moral behavior based on the teachings of Confucius.
What is Confucianism?
A holy being that represents a spirit of nature, sacred place, ancestor, or clan in Japanese culture.
What is a kami?
Highly trained Japanese warriors.
What is a samurai?
The year in which the Jin kingdom took control of northern China.
What is 1127?
The year in which the Mongols gained control of all of China.
What is 1279?
An ancient Chinese philosophy of which that basic teaching is that all things- earth, heaven, and people- should follow the Dao.
What is Daoism?
Someone who governs a kingdom in the name of a ruler who is unable to rule, often because of age.
What is a regent?
A set of rules that highly trained Japanese warriors follow, which means "the way of the warrior."
What is the bushido?