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What was the largest empire in history?
The Mongols
Who founded the Shang Dynasty?
What Chinese invention allowed painting, writing and money to be easily available?
Paper
What does the word Kahn mean?
ruler
What Venetian trader became the first European to travel the length of the Silk Road?
What was Genghis's title?
Kahn
What dynasty is credited with building the Great Wall of China, the terracotta army, and giving China its namesake?
Qin dynasty
What Chinese invention revolutionized warfare and is still in wide use today? (think Sulphur)
Gunpowder
What was Genghis Kahn's first law as ruler?
Freedom of Religion
If a fire was unavailable, how might a Mongolian soldier cook their food?
Slide the meat between their horse and saddle and ride.
How were Mongolian horses different than Arabian horses?
Shorter, heavier, and able to travel further
This dynasty is known as the ONLY dynasty in which the ruling family was an ethnic minority.
Yuan Dynasty
Where does silk come from?
The cocoon of a silk moth
How might you best survive Mongol rule?
Be useful to the Mongols
What are 3 inventions from late imperial China?
Water clocks, paper, woodblock printing, paper currency, rockets, the compass, etc.
What made Mongol armies difficult to attack?
Very mobile, difficult to catch, expert Horsman and archers
During the Qin dynasty, Emperor Shi Huangdi instituted this religion where people were assumed to be inherently bad and must be ruled by strict laws.
Legalism
Name 5 things that may have been traded along the Silk Road.
paper, spices, silk, heavenly horses, livestock, crops, ivory, slaves, metals, religions, gunpowder, dyes, etc.
The failed invasion of Japan by the Yuan dynasty led to this term, which means "divine wind"
Kamikaze
What made the Song Navy so formidable?
Mounted trebuchets and incendiary bombs
What was Genghis Kahn's birth name?
Temujin
Known as the golden age of China, this dynasty officially began the silk road.
The Han Dynasty
Describe the physical silk road.
A series of trade routes going east to west across Eurasia
What Kahn was responsible for conquering the Song Dynasty?
Kublai Kahn
What was the name of the system that subsidized the Equal Field System?
the Fubing System