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Emperors and Empresses
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The Mongol Conquests
The Mongol Empire
Feudal Powers in Japan
100
Be sure to study hard and have a lot of money, by knowing this emperor revived the civil service exams in China. (You must give me his full name)
Who is Tang Taizong?
100
This was the 11th-century masterpiece written by Lady Murasaki which detailed the lives of the Heian court
Was is The Tale of Genji?
100
The area around which the Mongols lived and traded.
What are the steppes?
100
The Chinese dynasty founded by the Mongols
What is the Yuan?
100
Based on Japanese etiquette, especially during the Heian period, this form of expression was frowned upon outside of the home
What is laughing?
200
He was quite the "universal ruler" as his empire was the largest unified empire in recorded history
Who is Genghis Khan?
200
"[M]ore precious and costly wares are imported into Khan-balik [Beijing] than into any other city in the world. . . ." was from the Tales of this guy
Who is Marco Polo?
200
These are kinship groups that many Mongols and nomads moved around in
What are clans?
200
The location where Kublai Khan moved the Mongol capital
What is Beijing?
200
This Japanese religion means the "way of the gods"
What is Shinto?
300
Watch out Kim Jong-un, this Chinese empress is coming for you.
Who is Wu Zhao?
300
Poet famous for the poem "Moonlight Night."
Who was Tu Fu?
300
The period of Mongol peace
What is the Pax Mongolica?
300
This was the group of people that the Yuan tended to employ in their courts
Who were foreigners?
300
The modern name for the Heian capital
What is Kyoto?
400
"Boy, this Venetian is really becoming a pain in our Mongol butts," is something this ruler might have said.
Who is Kublai Khan?
400
It was during this period that poetry and painting became extremely popular and oftentimes required of the aristocracy.
What is the Heian?
400
Some historians believe that this deadly disease was first spread by Mongol travelers
What is the bubonic plague?
400
Another name for "divine wind" in Japanese, it was this wind that many Japanese believe saved them from being conquered by the Mongols
What is kamikaze?
400
The first significant shogunate of Japan
What is Kamakura?
500
"Wow! Those Yuan really have a lot of cultural attributes that I feel like stealing!" Said this regent for Empress Suiko in Japan.
Who is Prince Shotoku?
500
The development of this new technology helped to spread education and literature throughout China
What is movable type?
500
These people herded domesticated animals
Who are pastoralists?
500
These were the "black stones" that Marco Polo recounted in his Tales
What is coal?
500
These are the four major islands that make up the archipelago of Japan
What are Hokkaido, Kyushu, Honshu, and Shikoku?