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Golden Ages of China
Mongol and Ming Empires
Korea and its Traditions
The Emergence of Japan and the Feudal Age
Diverse Cultures of Southeast Asia
100
Broke up large agricultural holdings and redistributed the land to peasants
What is land reform?
100
Once conquest was completed the Mongols allowed conquered people to live much as they had before as long as they regularly paid ______
What is tribute?
100
Korea served as a cultural bridge linking China and _______
What is Japan?
100
Japan is located on a(n) ______________ or a chain of islands 100 miles off the Asian mainland and east of the Korean peninsula.
What is an archipelago?
100
_________ descent, or inheritance through the mother, was an accepted custom in southeast Asia.
What is Matrilineal?
200
Ruled for 319 years, longer than the Tang but they controlled less territory
What is the Song Dynasty?
200
This grandson of Ghengis Khan tried to prevent the Mongols from being absorbed into Chinese civilization
Who is Kublai Khan?
200
porcelain with an unusual blue-green glaze
What is celadon?
200
The worship of the forces of nature meaning "the way of kami"
What is Shinto?
200
The third religion that Indians carried into the region
What is Islam?
300
The ambitious 16 year old son of the first Tang emperor who when later became emperor was named Tang Taizong
Who is Li Shimin?
300
The Chinese name that Kublai adopted for his dynasty
What is Yuan?
300
The Korean phonetic alphabet that uses symbols to represent the sounds of spoken Korean
What is hangul?
300
The process of keeping some ways but discarding or modifying others
What is selective borrowing?
300
dome shaped shrines
What is a stupa?
400
Most scholar officials at court came from the ________, or wealthy landowning class
What is gentry?
400
The Italian merchant who visited China during the Yuan dynasty with his father and uncle
Who is Marco Polo?
400
Percentage of people who can read and write
What is literacy rate?
400
The code of values that the samurai developed known as the "way of the warrior." It emphasized honor bravery, and absolute loyalty to one's lord
What is bushido?
400
The river irrigated fertile rice _____, or fields which provided food for a growing population
What are paddies?
500
Multistoried temple with eaves that curve up at the corners that evolved from the Indian stupa
What is the Chinese pagoda?
500
A Chinese admiral and diplomat who commanded 7 expeditions to promote trade and collect tribute from lesser powers across the western seas
Who is Zheng He?
500
the last and longest lived of Korea's three dynasties
What is the Choson dynasty?
500
A Buddhist sect in China that emphasized self-reliance, meditation and devotion to duty.
What is Zen?
500
King Anawrahta is credited with bringing this to the Burman people
What is Buddhism?