China
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100

Name the first Chinese dynasty

Shang

100

What is a Japanese warrior called?

Bonus: What is the name for a Japanese leader meaning "great general"?

Samurai

Bonus: Shogun

100

Name for Mongol homes

Bonus: European name for Mongols

Yurts

Bonus: Tartars

100

leading religion in early Chinese history

ancestor worship

100

True or False: China began to develop large cities in the 12th century

True

200

What dynasty was defeated by the Mongols?


Song

200

What is the name of the Japanese military code meaning "way of the warrior"?

Bonus: According to this code, a Japanese warrior must commit suicide rather than be captured or be disloyal. What is this act called?

Bushido

Bonus: Hara-kiri

200
Two types of Mongol warfare - Describe both

Seige warfare

Pretend Retreat

200

Chinese religion that teaches harmony with nature and promotes superstition

Bonus: Japanese religion that teaches nature worship

Taoism

Bonus: Shintoism

200
Why was Confucianism anti-merchants during the time before the Song dynasty came to power in China?

Confucianism looks down on making a profit and thought of the merchants as distrustful for seeking wealth.

300

The first foreign dynasty to rule in China

Bonus: Who was its first leader?

Yuan

Bonus: Kublai Kahn

300

What type of rule results when central government power declines and local leaders take over?

feudalism

300

Mongol Ruler that extended his empire from Turkey to India

Bonus: Mongol Ruler that led an army into Russia and began the Golden Horde

Tamerlane

Bonus: Batu Kahn

300

Religion founded on the 4 Noble Truths

Bonus: Religion that had the most impact on Japanese military class

Buddhism

Bonus: Zen Buddhism

300

Name the temple built in Cambodia during the Khmer period

Bonus: Temple built in India by a Mongol ruler as a memorial for his wife

Angkor Wat

Bonus: Taj Mahal

400

The Chinese dynasty that sought to remove all traces of Mongol rule

Ming

400

Name 3 of 4 Japanese clans

Bonus if you can name all 4

Fujiwara, Kamakura, Ashikaga, Tokugawa

400

Name for the law code put in place by Chinggis Kahn to govern his people and prepare them for military conquest

Grand Yasa

400

Religion that had the most impact on the Japanese military class

Zen Buddhism

400

The battle where the Mongols defeated a combined army of Polish, Czech, and German

Battle of Leignitz

500

Name 3 significant Chinese inventions

compass, gunpowder, paper, printing, cast iron

500

Why were the Mongols unable to defeat Japan?

Bonus: What is a kamikaze?

Because of a storm that blew up both times the Mongols tried to take Japan.

Bonus: called a "divine wind" because it protected Japan from takeover

500

Most famous ruler of the last Mongol empire

Bonus: Name of the last Mongol empire

Akbar

Bonus: Mughal

500

Name of the supreme god of the Mongols

Bonus: Name for the Mongol medicine men believed to have power over the spirits

Tengri

Bonus: Shamans

500

Why did the Mongol empire decline and eventually lose power?

1) Tribes fighting with each other weakened them and the Chinese were able to expel them

2) Tamerlane more interested in wealth than in building a strong empire

3) Mughals slowly declined after Akbar's death and were eventually taken over by the British in 19th century

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