China Rebuilds Its Empire
System of waterways that connected China's two great rivers.
What is the Grand Canal?
Buddhist men and women who ran schools and provided food and shelter for travelers.
Who were monks and nuns?
The Song introduced this type of rice that grew rapidly and well in poor soil.
What is champa rice?
During the Tang dynasty, this group of best known Chinese writers wrote about the beauty of nature, the changes of the seasons, and the joys of friendship.
Who were poets?
In 1206, a meeting of Mongol leaders took place in this vast desert that covers parts of Mongolia and China.
Military officer who reunited China and set up his capital at Nanjing.
Who was Zhu Yuanzhang (Hong Wu)?
Who was Wendi?
Tang officials saw Buddhism as an enemy of these Chinese traditions.
What were Confucian traditions?
Tang rulers built roads and waterways including nearly ______________ miles of canals.
What is 30,000?
This popular writer wrote one of the best-known poems about nature called "Alone Looking at the Mountain".
Under Genghis Khan, Mongol forces conquered other people of these wide, grassy plains.
What are steppes?
Only top government officials were allowed to enter this city where the emperor and his family lived.
What is the Forbidden City?
The only woman to rule the country on her own.
Who was Empress Wu?
Buddhism spread to these places in the 330s C.E. and 552 C.E..
What are Korea and Japan?
These two trade commodities were in high demand and allowed China to receive gold, silver, precious stone, and fine woods in exchange.
What are silk and porcelain?
This Tang poet was a poor civil servant who face many hardships.
Who was Du Fu?
After Genghis Khan died in 1227, his vast territory was divided into four territories.
What are khanates?
One of the most popular novels during the Ming dynasty described military rivalries at the end of the Han period.
What was Romance of the Three Kingdoms?
Turkish-speaking people hired by the Tang rulers to fight the farmers' revolt.
Who were the Uighurs?
After the fall of the Han dynasty, China lacked this to give the civil service examinations.
What is a central government?
The mixing of iron and carbon created a new, stronger metal.
What is steel?
This religion influenced the way people were portrayed in landscape paintings.
What is Daoism?
Beijing is located on the site of the former Mongol capital.
What is Khanbaliq?
What is Africa?
Dynasty that ruled from 960 to 1279 and created the strongest and most centralized government in the world at that time.
Who was the Song dynasty?
Neo-Confucianism was created for this reason.
What is to stop the growing influence of Buddhism? (counter Buddhism)
The earliest-known printed book dates from about 868 C.E. called...
What is the Diamond Sutra?
Chinese painters used a brush and ink to write these beautiful ____________ called calligraphy.
What are characters?
Kublai Khan brought an end to the Song dynasty and started a dynasty whose name means "beginning."
What is the Yuan dynasty?
Who were Confucian officials?
City where the capital was moved by the Southern Song dynasty.
What is Hangzhou?
The examination system created a new class of leaders made up of this group.
What are scholar-officials?
With woodblock printing, changes could not be made to a page after the wooden block was carved. This Chinese printer solved this problem by inventing movable type.
Who was Pi Sheng?
This porcelain feature impressed an Arab traveler who wrote about it in 851 C.E..
What is transparency?
Emperors of the Tang, Song, and Yuan dynasties selected this city as one of the few cities that could trade directly with foreign merchants.
What is Quanzhou?
These invaders from the north defeated the Chinese armies and set up a new dynasty called the Qing dynasty
Who were the Manchus?