Vocabulary
A vast belt of grassland that stretches across the landmass of Eurasia
What is the steppe
What Chinese dynasty was the completion of the Grand Canal?
What was the Sui
What Tang emperor began great achievements for his dynasty?
Who was Tang Taizong
Who was Marco Polo?
Who was the most famous European trader to visit China
Who were the samurai?
Who were warriors in feudal japan who defended the lords of the land.
Who were pastoralists?
Who were nomadic peoples who herded domesticated animals.
What is Confucianism?
What is a philosophy based on the teachings of the Chinese scholar Confucius, who stressed the importance of social and civic responsibility
Who was the only woman to ever become emperor in China?
Who was Wu Zhao
From which dynasty does Korea get its name?
What is the Koryo
What was the main power on the Southeast Asia mainland?
What was the Khmer Empire
Kinship groups of nomads
What were clans
What was the significance of the steppe?
What is it was a trading route connecting the East and the West.
A class of powerful, well-to-do people. Made up of scholar-officials and their families. They attained their status through education and civil service positions rather than land ownership
Who were the gentry
What shaped the growth of Japan’s civilization?
What is it's island location
What was Angkor Wat?
What was a vast temple complex of the Khmer Empire
A period of imposed stability and peace across much of Eurasia
What was the Pax Mongolica
Korea is located on what type of landform?
What is a peninsula
What did the title Genghis Khan mean? What group of people was Genghis Khan the ruler of?
What is Universal ruler the Mongols
What was one of the most important influences brought by Korean travelers to Japan?
What is Buddhism
What was a result of the Battle of Talas?
What was Central Asia passed out of Chinese control and into foreign hands
What is Shinto?
What is Japan’s earliest religion meaning “the way of the gods”
What Korean Dynasty defeated the other two dynasties then drove out the Chinese?
What is Silla?
Grandson of Genghis Khan who conquered China
Who was Kublai Khan
What is considered the world’s first novel? What was it an account of?
What is The Tale of Genji and account of the life of a prince in the imperial court of Heian
Who were two of the Tang period’s most celebrated poets?
Who were Li Bo and Tu Fu