Song Dynasty
These are five innovations of the Song Dynasty during the period c. 1200 to 1450 C.E...
What are: Wood-block Printing, Paper, Books, Champa Rice, Gunpowder weapons, Porcelain, Silk production, Proto-factories in the home, and numerous other possible answers?
As part of the rapid spread of this religion prior to the period c. 1200 to 1450, the Delhi Sultanate came to dominate the northern Indian subcontinent...
What is Islam?
As founders of the Vijaynagara Empire, two brothers defected from the Delhi Sultanate, rejected Islam, and embraced this religion, the traditional religion of South Asia...
What is Hinduism?
In c. 1200 C.E., this East Asian country has a feudal system similar to Medieval Europe, but with a few differences, such as Samurai instead of Knights...
What is Japan?
With more than a million inhabitants, this capital of the Abbasid Caliphate was likely the largest city outside of China in the period c. 1200-1450 C.E...
What is Baghdad?
This Southeast Asian country is heavily influenced by China and Confucianism and is the origin for Champa Rice, which helped feed the large population centers in Song Dynasty China...
What is Vietnam?
This syncretic blend of religions and belief systems was an innovation in Song Dynasty China, which was a change from previous Chinese dynasties which generally rejected Buddhism...
What is Neo-Confucianism (syncretic blend of Daoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism)?
This proto-university in Baghdad, the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate, preserved knowledge from Europe and elsewhere in the fields of mathematics, medicine, history, philosophy, and others...
What is the House of Wisdom?
Due to controlling a very large coastline in South Asia, this trade route was very important to the Vijaynagara Empire in the period c. 1200 to 1450 C.E...
The Indian Ocean Trade Network...
This East Asian country is a tributary state of China for most of the period c. 1200-1450 C.E. and is heavily influenced by Confucianism in terms of bureaucracy and scholarship...
What is Korea?
Song Dynasty China was more of a meritocracy than many states of the period c. 1200 to 1450 C.E. due to the social mobility offered to males through this important test, which determined eligibility for highly desired and highly paid position in the imperial bureaucracy...
What are the Civil Service Examinations?
Though Buddhism is the primary religion in Southeast Asia in the period c. 1200-1450, this other religion with roots in South Asia is also heavily influential, which can be seen in architecture such as Ankor Wat in Cambodia...
What is Hinduism?
The Song Dynasty and its emperor held this important distinction for the Chinese people until they were ousted by the Mongols in 1279 C.E...
What is the Mandate of Heaven...