HAN CHINA
This dynasty became one of the great golden ages of early Chinese civilization.
What is the Han Dynasty?
This massive peasant uprising beginning in 184 CE helped weaken the Han Dynasty.
What was the Yellow Turban Rebellion?
Fire attacks against Cao Cao’s fleet played a decisive role in this famous battle.
What was the Battle of Red Cliffs?
This peninsula east of China developed kingdoms that adopted many Chinese cultural influences while maintaining their own identities.
What is Korea?
This enormous grassland zone stretching across Eurasia was home to many mobile pastoral peoples.
What is the Steppe?
This philosophy became deeply influential in Han government and education.
What is Confucianism?
This religious and political movement inspired the Yellow Turban rebels with promises of a new age of peace after the corrupt Han order collapsed.
What is Daoism?
This kingdom controlled most of northern China and was the strongest of the three rival states.
What is Wei?
This legendary divine king founded Gojoseon, the first Korean Kingdom, in 2333 BCE, and was descended from a bear and a god.
Who was Tan'gun?
This animal made steppe peoples exceptionally mobile in both herding and warfare.
What is the horse?
This famous trade network linked China with Central Asia and eventually the Mediterranean world.
What is the Silk Road?
Powerful regional military leaders increasingly controlled China as Han central authority collapsed.
What are warlords?
This powerful northern warlord laid the foundations for the kingdom of Wei.
Who was Cao Cao?
This early Japanese religion centered on sacred spirits associated with nature and ancestors.
What is Shinto?
This powerful nomadic confederation/steppe empire fought repeated wars against the Han along China’s northern frontier.
Who were the Xiongnu?
This lightweight writing material was improved and increasingly used during the Han Dynasty.
What is paper?
The final collapse of the Han in 220 CE led into this famous period of rival kingdoms.
What is the Three Kingdoms Period?
This southern kingdom, ruled from the lower Yangtze River region, became one of the three major states competing to reunify China.
What is Wu?
Two Vietnamese women who led an unsuccessful rebellion against Han China in 40 CE.
Who were the Trưng sisters.
Chinese efforts to secure routes around hostile steppe powers helped expand contacts that eventually became this trade network.
What is the Silk Road?
This Han emperor greatly expanded Chinese power and fought long wars against steppe peoples to the north.
Who was Emperor Wu?
These three competing states struggled for control of China during the Three Kingdoms era.
What were Wei, Shu, and Wu?
After decades of warfare among Wei, Shu, and Wu, this dynasty finally reunified China in 280 CE.
What is the Jin Dynasty?
The kingdom established by Qin general Zhao Tuo in 207 BCE in southern China/northern Vietnam that was conquered by Han China in 111 BCE.
What was Nam Việt?
A type of ranged weapon developed by steppe cultures that was smaller and more powerful than a standard bow, allowing it to be fired from horseback; made of wood, bone, animal sinew, and other materials.
What was the composite bow?