Chapter 4 Test Flashcards
Chinese religion that taught harmony with nature and promoted superstition
Taoism
Resulted when local rulers replaced a central power
Feudalism
Japanese religion that teachers nature worship
Shintoism
Religion founded on the Four Noble Truths
Buddhism
The leading religion early in Chinese history
Ancestor worship
Japanese title meaning “great general”
Shogun
Practice of a warrior’s committing suicide
hara-kiri
A man whom the Mongols believed had power over spirits
Shaman
A “divine wind” given credit for protecting Japan
Kamikaze
Japanese warrior
Samurai
He employed a law code that he used to govern and prepare for military conquest
Chinggis Khan
They worshiped many gods, including the supreme god Tengri
Mongols
He extended his empire from Turkey to India
Tamerlane
He led a Mongol army into Russia
Batu Khan
The earliest Chinese dynasty
Ming dynasty
The decline of a central government in Japan led to this
Feudalism
This cult became the leading religion early in Chinese history
Ancestor worship
The Mongols defeated China during this dynasty
Song dynasty
This class was the least-respected in China
Merchants
The name for the Japanese military code that means “the way of the warrior”
Bushido
Mongol soldiers fired arrows and flaming objects into cities/towns to defeat them
Siege warfare
This was the law code of the Mongols
The Great Yasa
The name of China’s first foreign dynasty that was founded by Kublai Khan
Yuan
The Taj Mahal is located in this country
India
This temple located in modern-day Cambodia was built during the Khmer empire
Angkor Wat
The European name for Mongol forces
Tartars
Most famous ruler of the last Mongol empire
Akbar
The portable shelters of the Mongols
Yurts
This religion had a great impact on the military class in Japan
Zen Buddhism
The dynasty that ruled the last Mongol empire
Mughal
These were all significant Chinese inventions
paper, the compass, gunpowder, printing, and cast iron
