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China Reunifies
Achievements and Inventions
Confucianism
Yuan Dynasty
Ming Dynasty
100
She lived during the Tang dynasty and was the only woman to rule China.
Who is Empress Wu?
100
This invention revolutionized navigation by using the Earth's magnetic field to show direction.
What is the compass?
100
Confucianism began to gain popularity and eventually developed into Neo-Confucianism during this dynasty.
What is the Song dynasty?
100
His original name was Temujin which he later changed to this after uniting the tribes in Northern China.
What is Genghis Khan?
100
This amazing palace complex contained 9,000 rooms.
What is the Forbidden City?
200

Military leader who runs a government

What is a Warlord

200
This fragile material was used to create beautiful vases.
What is porcelain?
200
Confucius taught about proper behavior, also called this.
What is ethics?
200
Much of what our knowledge about the Yuan dynasty comes from the journals of this Italian merchant.
Who is Marco Polo?
200
He was the greatest mariner of the Ming Dynasty and led fleets comprised of over 60 ships.
Who is Zheng He?
300
A Tang emperor burned texts, took land, and destroyed temples, in an effort to eliminate this.
What was Buddhism?
300
China's population grew to nearly 100 million due to this advantageous situation created by advances in irrigation and agriculture.
What is a food surplus?
300
People had to pass a series of difficult tests to earn this position as an educated member of the government.
What is a scholar-official?
300
He declared himself emperor of China in 1279, beginning the Yuan dynasty.
Who is Kublai Khan?
300
A former monk, he led a successful rebellion against the Yuan and became the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty.
Who is Zhu Yuanzhang?
400

This northern ruler conquered the south, unifying China and beginning the Sui dynasty.

Who is Wendi?

400
Huge amounts of trade goods were carried on this which linked many major cities in China.
What is the Grand Canal?
400
This term is used to describe and unelected body of government officials.
What is a bureaucracy?
400

Huge storms destroyed Kublai Khans fleets both times he tried to invade this country

What is Japan?

400
China lost control of some parts of their empire to the advancing Western world, partially due to this policy in which a nation intentionally cuts off contact with other countries.
What is isolationism?
500
He unified China through reform of the military, creation of law codes, and the equal field system.
Who is Taizong?
500

The Chinese used gunpowder to create this weapon

What is the fire lance?

500
These were two of the benefits of becoming an elite member of society.
What are great respect from others and reduced penalties for breaking the law?
500
All of China was controlled by the Mongols by the time of Genghis Khan's death in this year.
What is 1227 AD?
500
Ming Emperors used this strategy to become more powerful than their Song and Tang predecessors.
What is abolishing the offices of many government officials.