Vocabulary
What is the name for a system of beliefs based on the teachings of Confucius?
Confucianism
What two types of landforms cause problems in China? What were the problems?
Mountains and deserts: they isolated the people of China
The land of Korea can be described as which geographic feature?
peninsula
The land of Japan can be described as what geographic feature?
archipelago (group of islands)
The economies of China, Korea, and Japan all share this ***MAJOR*** concept in common.
Farming
What is the name for a Chinese beliefs which describes the way a person must rule
Dao
List the two major rivers in China (give both names!) and identify what crop was primarily grown along it's fertile shoreline?
Huang He/Yellow River/Wheat; Chang Jiang/Yangtze/Rice
Which Korean geographic feature limits farming on the peninsula of Korea?
mountains
What group of people brought farming to Japan around 300 BCE?
Yayoi
The wheelbarrow, acupuncture, and civil service exams are key contributions of the Han dynasty in which civilization?
China
Define aristocrat
a member of an upper class of society
1. Which Chinese dynasty was the longest? 2. Which Chinese dynasty was the first? 3. During which Chinese dynasty did the wheelbarrow and civil service exams become implemented in Chinese society?
1. Zhou 2. Shang 3. Han
Korean kingdoms were modeled after what? Hint: This is an example of cultural diffusion!
Chinese government
emperor
Fill in the blank: Farming helped the people of China, Korea, and Japan to farm in surplus. This set up all three civilizations to __________.
Trade
Define (1) pictograph and (2) ideograph.
(1) a symbol in a writing system based on pictures; (2) a symbol in a writing system that represents a thing or an idea.
Put the 4 Chinese dynasties in order from oldest to most recent (Zhou, Han, Shang, Qin)
Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han
Compete this thought by filling in the blanks: Korean society had a small (1) _______ _______. Most people were in the (2) _______ __________ and were (3) __________.
1. upper class; 2. middle class; 3. farmers
What polytheistic religion was an important part of early Japanese culture, and what is the basic idea of it's belief system? You need BOTH: (1) religion (2) basic idea of that belief
Animism; belief in spirits that exist in nature
What caused the civilizations of China, Korea, and Japan to be so independent?
Isolation (by mountains or water or desert)
What makes Chinese language different than most other languages.
Chinese characters represent words instead of sounds like other languages.
Using your white board, create the social pyramid of East Asia.
KING
WARLORDS, ARISTOCRATS = UPPER CLASS
FARMERS, ARTISANS, MERCHANTS = LOWER CLASSES
ENSLAVED PEOPLE
Which two main religions were important in early Korean culture? Name one fact about each religion.
Shamanism (believe that shamans can communicate with spirits) and Buddhism (cultural diffusion or followed the teachings of Buddha).
What is cultural diffusion and give 2 examples of cultural diffusion in East Asia.
Cultural diffusion is the spread of one culture to a new area. This is seen in the spread of culture from China to the Korea and Japan.
Identify one geographic feature in common between China, Korea, and Japan. Then, tell one positive outcome and one negative outcome from it.
China, Korea, and Japan all have mountains. (+) They caused the people to be independent. (-) They caused the people to be isolated from others.