Geography & Regions
This mountain range forms a major geographic barrier between the Indian subcontinent and the rest of Asia.
What are the Himalayas?
This warrior class served powerful landowners in feudal Japan.
Who were the samurai?
Siddhartha Gautama founded the belief system associated with the Four Noble Truths.
What is Buddhism?
This network of trade routes connected China with Central Asia, the Middle East, and Europe.
What was the Silk Road?
This European country established colonial control over India.
What is Great Britain?
China, Japan, North Korea, and South Korea are generally grouped into this region of Asia.
What is East Asia?
This title was given to the military ruler who often held the real political power in feudal Japan.
What is a shogun?
This Chinese philosophy emphasized social order, education, family relationships, and respect for authority.
What is Confucianism?
Despite its name, this trade network carried religions, technologies, diseases, and ideas in addition to goods.
What was the Silk Road?
Britain fought China in two conflicts in the 1800s named after this commodity. (Hint: this is also a drug made from Poppy)
What is opium?
India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, and Sri Lanka are generally considered part of this Asian region.
What is South Asia?
This Mongol leader united tribes and began the creation of the largest contiguous land empire in history.
Who was Genghis Khan?
This belief system emphasizes living in harmony with nature and is associated with Laozi.
What is Daoism/Taoism?
Buddhism spread from India into China largely through merchants and travelers moving along these trade routes.
What were the Silk Roads?
After losing the First Opium War, China was forced to sign this 1842 agreement with Britain.
What was the Treaty of Nanjing?
This river was central to the development of early Chinese civilization and is sometimes called the “Yellow River.”
What is the Huang He?
This Chinese dynasty ruled from 1368–1644 and sponsored the voyages of Zheng He.
What was the Ming Dynasty?
In Confucian thought, this concept describes respect and responsibility toward one’s parents and ancestors.
What is filial piety?
This Chinese admiral led enormous naval expeditions throughout the Indian Ocean during the Ming Dynasty.
Who was Zheng He?
This 1857 rebellion against British rule in India involved Indian soldiers employed by the British East India Company.
What was the Sepoy Rebellion/Indian Rebellion of 1857?
This geographic feature separates the Indian subcontinent from much of the rest of Asia and helped create distinct cultural development.
What are the Himalayas?
This dynasty was China’s final imperial dynasty and ruled until the Chinese Revolution of 1911–1912.
What was the Qing Dynasty?
Chinese rulers historically used this concept to argue that their right to rule depended on maintaining order and governing effectively.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
Mongol control of much of Eurasia created a period of relative stability that increased long-distance trade, commonly called this.
What was the Pax Mongolica?
Western countries forced China to grant special economic privileges and territorial access through agreements commonly described by this term.
What were unequal treaties?