Name the first Chinese dynasty
Shang
What is a Japanese warrior called?
Bonus: What is the name for a Japanese leader meaning "great general"?
Samurai
Bonus: Shogun
Name for Mongol homes
Bonus: European name for Mongols
Yurts
Bonus: Tartars
leading religion in early Chinese history
ancestor worship
True or False: China began to develop large cities in the 12th century
True
What dynasty was defeated by the Mongols?
Song
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
Seige warfare
Pretend Retreat
Chinese religion that teaches harmony with nature and promotes superstition
Bonus: Japanese religion that teaches nature worship
Taoism
Bonus: Shintoism
Confucianism looks down on making a profit and thought of the merchants as distrustful for seeking wealth.
The first foreign dynasty to rule in China
Bonus: Who was its first leader?
Yuan
Bonus: Kublai Kahn
What type of rule results when central government power declines and local leaders take over?
feudalism
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
Religion founded on the 4 Noble Truths
Bonus: Religion that had the most impact on Japanese military class
Buddhism
Bonus: Zen Buddhism
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
The Chinese dynasty that sought to remove all traces of Mongol rule
Ming
Name 3 of 4 Japanese clans
Bonus if you can name all 4
Fujiwara, Kamakura, Ashikaga, Tokugawa
Name for the law code put in place by Chinggis Kahn to govern his people and prepare them for military conquest
Grand Yasa
Religion that had the most impact on the Japanese military class
Zen Buddhism
The battle where the Mongols defeated a combined army of Polish, Czech, and German
Battle of Leignitz
Name 3 significant Chinese inventions
compass, gunpowder, paper, printing, cast iron
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
Most famous ruler of the last Mongol empire
Bonus: Name of the last Mongol empire
Akbar
Bonus: Mughal
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
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