Early Chinese Dynasties
Disunity in China
Gupta and Mughal Empires
Korea and Japan
Japan and the Mongols
100
This was the event where many different philophies about how to rule and unify were created as a reaction to the Warring States period.
What is the Hundred/Thousand Schools of Thought?
100
In the later Han Dynasty, who was pushing into China and ruling in the north?
Who were steppe nomads?
100
During the Period of Disunion, this Chinese monk traveled to India and brought back Buddhist texts as well as information from his travels.
Who was Fa Xian?
100
This was an effect of Korea's relationship with Japan during the Three Kingdoms period.
What is fighting between Korean Kingdoms (with Chinese or Japanese support) and/ or the spread of Buddhism?
100
This person became the "ruler" of Japan after the Genpei War as the emperor became more of a "figurehead"
Who was the shogun?
200
This philosophy believes that a state is strong if its rulers are strong and was used during the Qin Dynasty to unify China.
What is Legalism?
200
Which religion came to China during the Period of Disunion and began to grow?
What is Buddhism?
200
Due to the cultural interactions along the Silk Roads, this is how Indian culture most significantly affected East Asia (China, Korea, and Japan).
The spread and growth of Buddhism
200
These were the Three Kingdoms of Korea.
What were Baekje, Goguryeo, and Silla?
200
This occurred in 1274 and 1281 in Japan with both ending in failure.
What were the Mongol invasions of Japan?
300
This philosophy was used by the Han Dynasty, focused on social relations, and believed everyone was inherently good.
What is Confucianism?
300
The Northern Wei (seen above) was a part of this era during the Period of Disunion.
What is the Three Kingdoms Period (of China)?
300
This group came into India, brought the end of the Delhi Sultanate, and created an empire that would last until the 1800s.
Who are the Mughals?
300
This was the role of the Samurai in the Heian and Kamakura periods.
What was guards for private estates/shoen and soldiers/warriors for their landowners and Shogun (Kamakura period)?
300
This was one of the advantages of the Samurai/Japanese during the Mongol invasions.
What was
-the lack of Mongol naval experience
-motivation to defend their home
-knowledge of geography
-typhoons
400
This man founded the Han Dynasty (both names)
Who is Liu Bang/Han Gaozu?
400
This was an effect of the rising influence of steppe nomads in northern China during this time period.
What is the deepening of cultural divisions between northern and southern China and/or prolonging the period of disunion?
400
This Mughal ruler is best known for his religous tolerance.
Who is Akbar?
400
This is the name of the civil war between the two strongest military clans in the late Heian era.
What is the Genpei War?
400
This is the name given to the typhoons that helped destroy the Mongol fleets after they already retreated during the first invasion and when they had to regroup during the second invasion.
What is "kamikaze"?
500
This is the time period after the fall of the Han Dynasty and can be separated into a few smaller eras.
What is the Period of Disunion?
500
These are the three smaller eras within the Period of Disunion in China.
What are
The Three Kingdoms Period (220 CE to 265 CE)
The Jin Dynasty (265 CE to 420 CE)
The Northern and Southern Dynasties (420 CE to 581 CE)?
500
This Mughal ruler brought back the jizya tax for non-Muslims and was the last of the rulers.
Who was Aurangzeb?
500
These are the two families that fought in the Genpei War.
Who are the Minamoto and Taira clans?
500
This is the code that all Samurai lived by and worked hard to achieve.
What is "Bushido" (Way of the Warrior)?