Empire in China that emerged in 618 to unify the region.
What is the Tang Dynasty?
100
A wealthy landowning class.
What is the gentry?
100
Italian merchant who visited China during the Yuan dynasty and spent 17 years in K Khan's service.
Who is Marco Polo?
100
A very large, damaging tidal wave launched by an undersea earthquake.
What is tsunami?
100
Code of values, or the "wary of the warrior" shared by samurai, which emphasized honor, bravery, and loyalty to one's lord. Very much like the code of chivalry in the Middle Ages.
What is bushido?
200
China's most admired emperor, who took the throne 8 years after the Tang dynasty began.
Who is Tang Taizong?
200
The payment a woman brings to a marriage.
What is a dowry?
200
Chinese dynasty founded in 1368 by Zhu Yuanzhang, a peasant, who toppled the Mongols.
What is the Ming?
200
Worship of forces of nature in Japan.
What is Shinto?
200
Buddhist sect widely accepted by samurai; emphasizes self reliance, meditation, and devotion to duty.
What is Zen?
300
Independent state that has to acknowledge the supremacy of another state and pay tribute to its ruler.
What is a tributary state?
300
Vast, treeless plain or grassland.
What is a steppe?
300
Chinese admiral and diplomat who voyaged overseas to promote trade and collect tribute.
Who is Zheng He?
300
Process of choosing to accept some aspects of another culture, while discarding or modifying others.
What is selective borrowing?
300
Familial inheritance through the mother.
What is matrilineal?
400
The process by which large agricultural holdings were broken up and redistributed to peasants.
What is land reform?
400
Brilliant Mongol chieftain who united warring Mongol clans in the early 1200s and conquered a vast empire in Asia.
Who is Genghis Khan?
400
Percentage of people who can read and write.
What is literacy rate?
400
Phonetic symbols representing syllables in the Japanese system of writing.
What is kana?
400
Dome shaped shrine.
What is stupa?
500
Unifying empire in China that began in 960 and ruled for 319 years.
What is the Song Dynasty?
500
G Khan's grandson, who toppled the last Song emperor in China in 1279 and ruled all of China, Korea, and Tibet.
Who is Kublai Khan?
500
Chain of islands.
What is archipelago?
500
Member of the warrior class in Japanese feudal society.