IMPERIAL CHINA
This major waterway was constructed to link northern and southern China.
What is the Grand Canal?
This term describes someone who rules a country for a person unable to rule alone.
What is a regent?
This religion spread rapidly throughout China during the Period of Disunion.
What is Buddhism?
This popular Japanese ruler brought many Chinese ideas to Japan.
Who is Prince Shotoku?
The Chinese invented this thin, beautiful pottery.
What is porcelain?
Chang’an served as the capital city of China during these two dynasties.
What are the Tang and Song Dynasties?
Japanese women were considered the best writers of the Middle Ages because they wrote in this language.
What is Japanese?
Missionaries originally brought Buddhism to China from this country.
What is India?
She authored The Tale of Genji, widely considered the world's first novel.
Who is Lady Murasaki Shikibu?
In this form of printing, an entire page is carved into a block of wood.
What is woodblock printing?
Cotton, rice, and tea were the three major crops grown in China during this dynasty.
What is the Song Dynasty?
Shark, eel, seaweed, and isolation were provided by this body of water.
What is the Sea of Japan?
This traditional religion of Japan is based on spirits in nature.
What is Shinto?
In AD 39, these sisters led a famous rebellion against Chinese rule in Vietnam.
Who are the Trung sisters?
This term refers to the spread of cultural traits from one region to another.
What is cultural diffusion?
Fireworks and signals were the two primary uses for this invention in medieval China.
What is gunpowder?
Order broke down in medieval Japan when the power of the shoguns was challenged by these two factors.
What are invaders and rebellion?
Prince Shotoku helped introduce this philosophy to Japan alongside Buddhism.
What is Confucianism?
This title was given to a general who ruled Japan in the emperor’s name.
What is a shogun?
In early Japan, these people were large landowners.
What are daimyo?
War and disorder characterized this historical era following the end of the Han dynasty.
What is the Period of Disunion?
Due largely to a ban on guns, this historical era in Japan extended into the 1800s.
What is the Samurai period?
Protecting homes, learning to fight, and committing suicide if honor was lost were key aspects of this samurai code.
What is Bushido?
He chronicled his travels from 1271–1295, spent 17 years amassing riches, and wrote a famous book about his time in China.
Who is Marco Polo?
Vietnam, Korea, and Japan were heavily influenced by the government and religion of this country during the Middle Ages.
What is China?