A counting devise the Chinese created during the Song Dynasty.
What is the abacus?
100
A type of pottery traded by the Chinese with many people from Europe.
What is porcelain?
100
A line of rulers from the same family that existed in China for centuries.
What is a dynasty?
100
This empire grew under Genghis Khan to at its peak controlling nearly 22% of the world's land.
What was the Mongol Empire?
100
A country on the northern boarder of China.
What is Mongolia?
200
One of the most significant inventions of the Chinese. Created by Bi Sheng who carved Chinese characters from clay and then baking the clay forms until they were hard.
What is movable-type printing?
200
A major trade center that connects Europe and Asia, made capital of the Eastern Roman Empire by Constantine.
What is Constantinople?
200
A system of rule based on bonds of loyalty between lords and vassals.
What is feudalism?
200
The means of being violent and actions that were meant to scare people into surrendering used by Genghis Khan and his warriors.
What is terror?
200
The capital of China where the summer 2008 Olympic games were held.
What is Beijing?
300
The Chinese used this to chart their course at sea for about two centuries before this invention reached Europe. Used lodestone and iron to help the navigation.
What is the Magnetic Compass?
300
A popular trade item from the Chinese that the Silk Road is named after.
What is silk?
300
During the Tang dynasty a proficiency exam taken to be given a job in the government.
What are civil service exams?
300
He is considered by some the Father of Mongolia.
Who was Genghis Khan?
300
China's longest river previously called the Chang Jiang.
What is the Yangtze River?
400
Used to develop weapons for military purposes long before Europe.
What is gunpowder?
400
A deadly trade route stretching thousands of miles from the Mediterranean Sea to the capitals of China.
What is the Silk Road?
400
In Japan the samurai and in Europe the knights had to follow this code of behavior
What are the code of chivalry and bushido?
400
He conquered Southern China and put an end to the Song dynasty. He also named himself emperor and started the Yuan dynasty in China.
Who was Kublai Khan?
400
The highest mountain range in the world located on the boarder of China and India.
What are the Himalayas?
500
One of the seven wonders of the world that stretches 3,665 miles can be seen from space.
What is Great Wall of China?
500
When two people share aspects of their daily life; such as language, religion, food and trade items.
What is cultural exchange?
500
In Japan they had more of an equal status and also had to live up to the values of honor and courage. However in Europe they were honored and protected they had few rights and were expected to stay at home.
What is the status of women?
500
A mail system scholars considered ingenious and replicated as the pony express in the United States centuries later.
What is the Yam?
500
A vast desert along the Silk road that covers part of Mongolia and China?