Geography
Mongols
Japanese Society
Samurai
Wild Card
100
Physical Map
100
What are nomads?
People, who move from place to place with no permanent home
100
True or false: The farmer is at the bottom of the social pyramid.
False
100
What is a samurai?
An armed warrior hired by a Daimyo to protect a plot of land
100
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
The idea that a good ruler had approval from the gods
200
List at least two geographic features of Japan
Mountains, Oceans, Island, Volcanoes
200
What is Pax Mongolia?
When throughout Eurasia warfare had all but stopped. Most of Eurasia was under one law. This was when Kublai Khan ruled.
Pax Mongolia= Mongolian Peace
200
Who is at the bottom of the social pyramid?
Merchants
200
What is the name of the head samuri?
Shogun
200
List four innovations from ancient China
Gun powder
Silk
Crossbow
Civil service exam
Silk road
Watermill
- Mechanical clock
- Paper
- The Grand Canal
The Great Wall of China
Land distribution systems
The Mandate of Heaven
- The plow
- Fireworks
- Currency
- Census
300
What ocean is Japan on?
Pacific Ocean
300
Why did the nomads need trade?
They did not make goods so they needed to trade for resources
300
What is a Haiku?
A form of poetry
Haikus are traditionally written about nature.
A haiku is a poem in 17 syllables, divided into three lines of five, seven, and five syllables.
300
True or False: Girls also studied martial arts if they were samurai.
True
300
What is philosophy?
Philosophy is the study of wisdom. Philosophers often try to answer the question “What is the best way to run a society?”
400
How wold living on an island impact the economy?
Fishing
400
Describe Gengis Khan as a leader/ person.
How did he come to power? What kind of ruler was he?
He promoted people based on merit, peasants loved him, he accepted lower classes of conquered people into his tribe.
Some areas would surrender before the Mongol's could attack. He was a brutal warrior.
400
What is the role of the emperor?
A religious symbolic figure with no real power
400
What religion did samurai study? How did it help them?
Buddhism. It helped them remain calm under stress
400
Who was Marco Polo?
A traveler and explorer who traveled the silk road and wrote about everything that he saw. For part of his travels he visited Kublai Khan's place and wrote about the great wealth and power that he saw there
500
Japan is an archipelago. What is an archipelago?
It is a series of islands
500
What are two accomplishments of Kublai Khan?
Pax Mongolia (a great time of peace though-out Eurasia)
Reorganized the government to include both Chinese and foreign officials
He brought in translators to make it possible for the various cultures in the empire to share ideas
500
What is Feudalism?
A system where landowners give a small portion of land to warriors in exchange for protections. Landowners then charge a tax on farmers worker the land, and provide protection to the farmer
500
What is Bushido?
A strict code of conduct that provided guidelines for all aspects of life.
Literally translated to "the way of the warrior"
500
What is one positive and one negative of the Mongols?
Positives:
-Protected trade on the silk road, moved people to different areas (increased cultural diffusion), create a time of peace throughout Eurasia
Negatives:
-Brutal warfare, killed many people, many have increased the spread of the Black Death