This group resisted the Taika reforms and caused them to fail.
What is the aristocratic families and Buddhist monks?
100
Because of their complacency in being conquered by the Mongols, members of this social class were often tolerated to a greater degree than other subjects.
Who are Religious Scholars?
100
This basic unit of Mongol society is common to most Nomadic peoples.
What is a Tribe?
100
This was a cultural and political movement in Western Europe; this began in Italy which featured a literature and art with distinctly more secular priorities than those of the Middle Ages.
What is the Renaissance?
100
This Chinese Muslim admiral who commanded series of Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf, and Red Sea trade expeditions under the third Ming emperor.
Who is Zhenghe?
200
These mounted troops were the personal army for the bushi.
What is the Samurai?
200
This basic Mongol fighting unit consisted of heavy and light Cavalry.
What is the Tumen?
200
This early Mongol commander led successful campaigns against the Tangut Kingdom and Jin Empire in the early 13th century.
Who is Chinggis Khan?
200
Portuguese captain who sailed for India in 1497; he established early Portuguese dominance in the Indian Ocean.
Who is Vasco De Gama?
200
Two Genoese brothers who attempted to find a western route to the Indies; they disappeared but were precursors to the thrust into Southern Atlantic.
Who are the Vivaldis?
300
This was the earliest Korean kingdom.
What is Choson, in 109 BC?
300
Though Chinggis Khan was portrayed as Barbaric, he tolerated most of the culture of conquered people. He did not, however, live in their cities, electing instead to build this city.
What is Karakorum?
300
Much of Russia and some of Europe fell into the hands of these people, from which this khanate is named.
What is the Golden Horde?
300
This Portuguese prince was responsible for direction of a series of expeditions along the African Coast in the 15th Century; this marked the beginning of Western Expansion.
Who is Henry the Navigator?
300
The two provinces that were united through royal marriage of Ferdinand and Isabella (Spain and Portugal).
What are Castile and Aragon?
400
This was the reason that social unrest occurred when China tried to incorporate Vietnam into their empire.
What is the Vietnamese culture was very different from China’s?
400
An attitude of this, often forgotten by early Historians, helped lead to the demise of the Mongols in Russia.
What is Tolerance/Religious Tolerance?
400
This empire fell to the Mongols after its caliph was killed in the conquest of Baghdad in 1258.
Who is Abbasid?
400
One of the major literary figures of the western Renaissance. He was an Italian author and humanist who took pride in his city.
Who is Francesco Petrarch?
400
This capital of the Byzantine Empire fell to the Turks in 1453, which effectively ended the empire.
What is Constantinople?
500
These two royal families fought over control of Vietnam.
Who are Nguyen and Trinh?
500
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
Though tolerated, subjecting this group of people to practices such as footbinding was not generally practiced by Kubilai Khan's rule of China.
Who are Women?
500
The prolific Mongolian expansion helped bridge gaps between many areas of the world in terms of exchanging ideas and technologies, as evidenced by the lack of such transfer between this area – which was relatively isolated from Mongols – and the rest of the world.
What is Africa?
500
This plague killed nearly 30 percent of Europe during the late 1300s.