Chapter 12 Flashcards
Tang Taizong
The Tang emperor that made great achievements such as expanding the empire
Wu Zhao
ruler in the campaign in Korea, only woman ever to assume title of emperor
movable type
a printer could arrange blocks of individual characters in a frame to make up a page for printing
gentry
a class of powerful, well to do people
pastoralists
nomadic people—herded domesticated animals
clans
steppe nomads traveled together in kinship groups
Genghis Khan
Mongol khan named Temujin, accepted title of “Genghis Khan” or “universal ruler”
Kublai Khan
China’s new emperor, founded new dynasty called the Yuan Dynasty
Marco Polo
most famous European to visit China in these years was a young Venetian trader
Shinto
Japan’s earliest religion “way of the gods”
samurai
bodyguard of loyal warriors “one who serves”
Bushido
samurai lives to a demanding code of behavior “the way of the warrior”
shogun
Yoritomo the title of “supreme general of the emperor’s army”