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The Chinese Buddhist monk that visited the Gupta Empire during China's Period of Disunion.
Who was Fa Xian?
The Chinese Emperor whose defeat of the Xiongnu allowed Han China access to central Asian trade networks thus allowing the export of silk and the establishment of the Silk Road.
Who was Han Wudi?
The founder of the Mughal Empire.
Who was Babur?
A pre-historic hunter-gatherer society in Japan characterized by matriarchal social structure and cord-marked pottery.
What is the Jomon?
The year that the Qin Dynasty began.
What is 221 BCE?
Imperial historian of the Han Dynasty and author of Instructions for Chinese Women and Girls.
Who was Ban Zhao?
The official name of the first Ming emperor who established a Confucian bureaucracy in reaction to the Mongol rule of the Yuan.
Who was the Hongwu Emperor?
The other major city for which the Harappan Civilization is NOT named.
What is Mohenjo-Daro?
The war that began the sengoku period in Japan.
What was the Onin War?
The year that the First Opium War began.
What is 1839?
The given name of the Meiji Emperor.
What is Mutsuhito?
The internal conflict that greatly weakened the power of the Tang Dynasty, leading to the slow decline of the Late Tang.
What was the An Lushan Rebellion?
Shiva, Brahma, and Vishnu.
What is the Trimurti?
A common-born daimyo who begun his career as a sandal-bearer and eventually became his successor, helping to unify Japan.
Who was Toyotomi Hideyoshi?
The year that Matthew Perry first arrived in Japan.
What is 1853?
The emperor that formally created the Qing Dynasty after invading central China after the collapse of the Ming Dynasty.
Who was Hong Taiji?
The dynasty that first built the Grand Canal.
What is the Sui Dynasty?
Hereditary landlords in Mughal India.
What were zamindars?
The code of honor for samurai.
What is bushido?
The year of the Battle of Plassey.
What is 1757?
The famous Indian playwright of the Gupta Dynasty.
Who was Kalidasa?
Chinese historian, philosopher, poet, and politician during the Song dynasty that was very influential in the development of Neo-Confucianism.
Who was Zhu Xi?
The kingdom conquered by the Mauryan Empire which convinced Ashoka to convert to Buddhism.
What is the Kingdom of Kalinga?
The other name for the Ashikaga shogunate.
What is the Muromachi Period?
The year the Meiji Emperor took power back from the last shogun.
What is 1867/8?