Geography
Why was farming on Japan hard?
Mountains
Where was printing first used?
China
Name the 2 time periods Japan was split into?
Nara and Heian
European explorer who traveled the Silk Road.
Marco Polo
Which 2 religions had the biggest impact on Japan?
Shintoism and Buddhism
Mountain in China
Himalaya Mountains
Culture was spread along this route through trade.
Silk Road
Which dynasty UNIFIED China
Tang Dynasty
This leader started the Mongol Empire.
Genghis Khan
Buddhism first went to China, the Korea, then what country?
Japan
Deserts and Mountains
Europeans can thank the Chinese for the invention of ________________ that helped them create the cannon.
This dynasty built the Forbidden City
Ming
This leader started the Yuan Dynasty
Kublai Khan
The spread of Buddhism in China occurred mostly because of this
trading
Term that describes the geography of Japan.
Archipelago
Who helped increase trade to China from Europe?
Marco Polo
Who did the Samurai protect?
their lord
The Japanese constitution was written by who?
Prince Shotoku
Confucianism focused on relationships between ___________________.
families
Japan relied on this type of food because it grows well there and helped increase population.
Rice
Emperor Hangwu banned all shipping in and out of China. This is an example of what kind of policy?
isolationist
Who held the most power in Japanese feudal society?
Shogun / military leader
________________ created Confucianism and ________________ created Buddhism.
Confucius and Siddhartha Gautama
This religion began in Japan and focused on nature gods and nature spirits.
Shinto