Imperial China
Lessons 1 & 2
Lessons 1 & 2
An accidental Chinese invention that led to the creation of fireworks and powerful weapons. (pages 190-191)
What is gunpowder?
The Mongols had a powerful army in part because from a young age they trained on how to ride and shoot arrows from this animal. (page 196)
What is a horse?
The 2 main trade items coming out of the Mali and Ghana Empires. (pages 295-296)
What is gold and salt?
The age that most African boys and girls began learning their gender roles by being around the adults of their community. (page 308)
What is 6 years old?
The main crop grown throughout Mesoamerica. (page 259)
What is corn (maize)?
A Chinese invention that inspired paper money and made books much more affordable. (page 190)
What is the woodblock printer?
The name of the Mongol leader who unified the Mongol clans and build a huge merit based army. (pages 196-197)
What is Genghis Khan?
African griots were primarily this. (page 296)
What is storytellers?
The name of the stringed instrument that griots often used. (page 312)
What is a kora?
The original or “mother culture” of Mesoamerica that made giant stone heads and was obsessed with jade. (page 260)
What is the Olmec?
Two major restoration and construction projects by the Sui dynasty. (page 179)
What is the Great Wall of China and the Grand Canal?
The name of the Muslim Chinese explorer who took a massive fleet of Ming Dynasty ships on trade missions to India, Arabia and Africa. (pages 206-207)
What is Zheng He?
The name of the super wealthy Muslim king of Mali who handed out much gold during his pilgrimage. (pages 301, 303, 305)
What is Mansa Musa?
The name of the first European nation to enslave Africans. (page 309)
What is Portugal?
The name of the large South American empire that used quipu and was destroyed by the Spanish invaders. (pages 271-272)
What is the Inca?
The Tang and Song dynasties were known for having highly organized, or ______ governments. (pages 180 & 182)
What is centralized?
3 of the religions that could be found in the Mongol controlled trade city of Quanzhou? (page 202)
What is Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Christianity?
The religion that became dominant across Eastern and Western Africa due to trade relationships with Arabia. (pages 303-305).
What is Islam?
3 of the genres of modern music that have been inspired by spirituals. (page 311)
What is blues, gospel, ragtime, jazz, rock & roll and rap (hip hop)?
The names of 2 Mesoamerican empires that offered human sacrifices to their gods. (pages 266-269)
The names of 2 popular belief systems in China that were blended with Confucianism to make "Neo-Confucianism". (page 185)
What is Buddhism and Daoism?
Something the Ming dynasty did to advance and improve China after years of Mongol rule. (pages 204-205)
What is civil service examinations, census, rebuild canals and farms, plant forests, improve farming, fix roads, repair the Grand Canal, increase trade, build Forbidden City?
The names of 3 of Africa's major geographic regions? (page 292)
What is a desert, sahel, mediterranean, tropical grassland (savanna), and tropical rainforest (jungle)?
The way in which most African lineage groups were set up within a community. (2 part answer - page 307)
What is matrilineal extended families?
The people that lived along the Mississippi River built these in different shapes and for different purposes. (page 264).
What is mounds?