TANG AND SONG
How one gained a position in the government.
What is the Civil Service Exam?
The founding leader of the Yuan Dynasty.
Who was Kublai Khan?
Accomplishment in arts that the Ming Dynasty is most known for.
What is Porcelain (China)?
The spread of cultural beliefs and social activities from one group of people to another.
What is cultural diffusion?
Feature connecting the Yangtze and Yellow River?
What is the Grand Canal?
This religion became more widely accepted during the Tang Dynasty.
What is Buddhism?
Group of people at the top of the Yuan Dynasty social hierarchy pyramid.
Who are The Mongols?
Known as the "Chinese Columbus."
Who is Zheng He?
Two neighboring states/ countries most influenced by China.
What is Japan and Korea?
Played a major role in Mongol conquest and expansion.
What is a horse?
Nomadic invasions, a weak central government, and peasant rebellions in the Tang Dynasty led to..
What is the fall of the Tang Dynasty
Belief that good and bad spirits are spread throughout Earth and can only be summoned by priests called shamans.
Shamanism
The five relationships, filial piety, the importance of education, the importance of leading by example, and the understanding that following these ideas would lead to order in society.
What is the ideas of Confucianism?
The name of the trade route that expanded from East Asia through Europe.
What is the Silk Road?
What is Pax Mongolica?
Innovations from the Tang and Song that impacted history. Name as many as you can.
What is gunpowder, paper money, woodblock printing, magnetic compass?
Italian traveler that described the beauty and accomplishments of China during the Yuan Dynasty in a way that Europeans did not believe him.
Who is Marco Polo?
Belief that your race or ethnic group is superior to others that led to the Chinese government limiting contact with the world.
What is ethnocentrism?
The expansion of China under the Tang and Song led to the growth of foreign trade. The growth of foreign trade led to a prosperous ________.
What is Economy?
"After a long split, a union will occur; after a long union, a split will occur" -Chinese proverb describes a system in Chinese history.
What is the Dynastic Cycle?
What is Gentry (top), Peasants (middle), merchants (bottom).
Kublai Khans death, corruption in administration, and debt.
What are causes of the end of the Yuan Dynasty?
Who is Gavin Menzies?
Centralized government, agricultural practices, system of weights and measurement.
What are ideas and practices spread from China to Japan?
Dynasty that caused Chinese people human suffering and loss of money due to Mongolian governmental practices.
What is the Yuan Dynasty?