Geography
Vocab
Inventions
Famous Figures
Mystery
100
Tallest mountain on Earth (above sea level)
What is Mt. Everest?
100
The religion started by Confucius
What is Confucianism?
100
Used in fireworks
What is gunpowder?
100
Achieved Nirvana and was the first Buddha
Who is Siddhartha Gautama? (Buddha)
100
The Cardinal Directions
What are North, South, East, West
200
The continent China sits on
What is Asia?
200
Someone who passed exams to get into government positions
What is scholar-official?
200
Made of metal and lodestone to help sailors
What is a magnetic compass?
200
This Spaniard travelled more than 24,000 miles and met Genghis Khan
Who is Marco Polo?
200
The name of a philosophy that promotes disciplining your child
What is legalism?
300
The body of water touching the southernmost part of China
What is the South China Sea?
300
Anything relating to the sea, particularly navigating or sailing
What is maritime?
300
Invention that helped print large amounts of text
What is moveable type print?
300
Conquered most of Asia and parts of Europe through brutal war tactics and fathered many children
Who is Genghis Khan?
300
This was an invention that was so light it could fly out of your hand
What is paper money?
400
The longest man-made water passage
What is the Grand Canal?
400
Kings need to give this to higher kings to prevent invasion or to appease them
What is tribute?
400
Injected with a weak dose of a disease to prevent against large scale death
What is inoculation?
400
Was the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty and ordered Zheng He to go exploring
Who is Yongle?
400
system of government with multiple people in power to make decisions
What is bureaucracy?
500
The capital of Taiwan
What is Taipei?
500
A succession of family rulers
What is dynasty?
500
Allowed ships to pass from higher or lower bodies of water
What is a water/canal lock?
500
This person started the Yuan Dynasty
Who is Kublai Khan?
500
The name of the things Buddhists have to do to achieve Enlightenment (Hint: more than 4)
What is the Eightfold Path?