Lesson 1
When someone was hired and promoted based on talent and skills, rather than wealth and social status.
What was the merit system?
A person who moves from place to place with no permanent home.
What is a nomad?
What is the name for the invention of a device with a magnetic piece of metal that points north?
What is a compass?
What do you call a group of people who share a common ancestor?
What is a clan?
What do you call a symbolic ruler who has no power?
What is a figurehead?
The growth of cities
What is urbanization?
What do you call a large, dry, grass-covered plain?
What is a steepe?
What is a method of Chinese book printing that involves using blocks with text on them?
What is block printing?
What is another name for a chain of islands?
What is an archipelago?
What name means supreme military leader?
What is a shogun?
A system of government with many departments of bureaus led by appointed officials.
What is bureaucracy?
What do you call the leader of a group of Mongols?
What is a Khan?
What religion teaches that people should follow the Dao?
What is Daoism?
What do you call an area that is part of a continent?
What is a mainland?
What do you call a social system that granted people land or other rewards for their labor?
What is feudalism?
A hard, white pottery of extremely fine quality.
What is porcelain?
What is a payment or gift given to a more powerful country called?
What is a tribute?
True or False?
Everyone loved Buddhism when it first came to China.
False. Many followers were persecuted, and monasteries were destroyed.
What is a holy being that represents a spirit of nature or a sacred place?
What is a kami?
What is the name for highly trained warriors?
What are samurai?
True or False:
A certain type of rice helped to grow the population of China during the Tang and Song dynasties.
True
What do you call people who trade illegally?
What is a smuggler?
What is a system of moral behavior called?
What is Confucianism?
What do you call someone who governs a country in the name of a ruler who is unable to rule, usually because of age?
What is a regent?
True or false:
Samurai did not have to follow the bushido
False