Topic 12 lesson 1
A system of government with many departments and bureaus led by appointed officials
bureaucarcy
What is a large, dry, grass-covered plain?
Steppe
Workers carved text into a block of wood, then put ink on it and placed it on paper.
Block printing
A chain of islands
Archiplegago
means he is a symbolic leader
figurehead
Qualified for government jobs
Scholar-Official
What is a ruler in China
khan
A device with a magnetized piece of metal that points north.
Compass
An area that is a part of a continent
Mainland
Supreme military commander
Shogun
Another factor that helped fuel growth was the development of
Money economy
Who do you call a person that moves from one place to another
Nomad
An ancient Chinese philosophy.
Doaism
Group of people with common ancestors
Clan
A social system in which land owners grant people land
Feudilism
China produces hard white pottery. What is it called?
Procelain
Encouraged the Mongols remain separate from Chinese
structure
A religion based on teachings.
Buddism
Holy being that represents nature
Kami
Local landowners
Daimyo
who used the Silk Road as a way to expand their influence westward as far as the eastern border of the Abbasid Caliphate.
The Tang
People who traded illegally
Smugglers
Confucianism
Someone who governs a country in the name of a ruler.
Regert
A small army