Topic 12 Lesson 1
A system of government with many departments and bureaus led by appointed officials.
Bureaucracy
What's a person who moves from place to place at different times of the year?
A Nomad.
A device with a magnetized piece of metal that points to the north.
A compass.
Korean and Chinese cultures were not the only influences on...
Japan.
1600
People who are hired and promoted based on talent and skills, rather than wealth or social status.
Merit system.
True or False: A Khan is a large, dry, grass-covered plain.
False
Workers carved text into blocks of wood.
Block printing.
An area that is part of a continent..
Mainland.
The most powerful of these warrior clans were the ___ and the ___.
Taira, Minamoto.
This dynasty reunited China between 581 and 618.
Sui Dynasty
Who organized his troops in groups of 10, 100, 1,000, and 10,000 men.
Genghis
True or False: Printing lowered the Price of books during the Song Dynasty.
True
A group of people with a common ancestor..
Clan
A supreme military commander.
Shogun.
When did the foreign Jin kingdom take control of northern China?
1127
In what year did Genghis's grandson, Kulbai Khan, take over northern China?
1260s
The Chinese had discovered a mixture of ingredients today known as...
Gunpowder.
A chain of islands.
Archipelago.
Figurehead
What year did the population of China double in size from 50 million people to 100 million?
Between 750 and 1100.
_____Known as the greatest area of Chinese poetry.
The Tang Dynasty
An ancient Chinese Philosophy.
Daoism.
From the 200s to the 400s, warlike clans compete for ___ and __.
Land, power.
A highly trained warrior.
Samurai.