Medieval Asia

Question 1

Tributary states

Answer 1

States that remained self governing but acknowledged China as their supreme ruler and had to send regular tribute to the Tang emperor

Question 2

Land reform

Answer 2

Emperors would brake up large agricultural holdings and redistribute the land to peasants

Question 3

Song dynasty

Answer 3

A scholarly general named Zhao Kuangyin reunited a lot of China and founded the dynasty. It ruled for 319 years. It controlled less land than the tang dynasty, but they were under a lot more threat. They improved a lot of farming methods and built canals. They were eventually fell at the feet of the Mongols. They made paintings of nature mostly

Question 4

Gentry

Answer 4

Wealthy landowning class

Question 5

Steppe

Answer 5

Vast treeless plains

Question 6

Genius Khan

Answer 6

Mongol chieftain (name literally means universal ruler) made a vast empire of eastern Europe. He never completed his conquest of china

Question 7

Kublai Khan

Answer 7

Genghis Khans grandson, took out the last Song emperor in 1279. He ruled from his capital Khanbaliq (present day Beijing) over all of china, Korea, and Tibet. His Dynasty was the Yuan dynasty

Question 8

Pagoda

Answer 8

Multistoried temple dedicated to Buddhism

Question 9

Marco pollo

Answer 9

Italian merchant, traveled all over Asia

Question 10

Ming dynasty

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(means brilliant) a peasant farmer named Zhu Yuanzhang forged a rebel army to fight the Mongols and pushed them back beyond the great wall. The Ming dynasty was well known for its sea exploration, but after great Admiral Zheng He died the emperor banned ship building

Question 11

Zheng He

Answer 11

Commanded 7 expeditions, had 62 huge ships, 200 small ones, and the largest ship was 400 feet long. Went to southeast asia and India

Question 12

Sills Dynasty

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Koreans prosper and art flourishes. Buddhism became am important religion to the Korean’s

Question 13

Koryo Dynasty

Answer 13

(word Korea was deprived from it.)

Capital is Songak. Koreans used woodblock printing from china to produce Buddhist texts.

Question 14

Celadon

Answer 14

Porcelain with unusual blue-green glaze

Question 15

Choson dynasty

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The last and longest of koreas three dynasty’s. Korea makes its own alphabet, and more people learned how to read and write.

Question 16

Hangul

Answer 16

King Sejong of Korea wanted the koreas to have their own alphabet, so he had experts create it

Question 17

Literacy rate

Answer 17

How many people can read and write

Question 18

Archipelago

Answer 18

The chain of islands Japan’s located on.

Question 19

Shinto

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(means the way of the Kami)

It’s the traditional religion of Japan.

Involves worshipping the forces of nature and your spiritual ancestors

Question 20

Zen Buddhism

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Used Daoist terms (chinese=Ch’an) values peace, stories are passed down from teacher to student, find inner peace, be open

Question 21

Kana

Answer 21

The Japanese revised the Chinese writing system by adding phonetic symbols representing syllables (or Kana)

Question 22

Selective borrowing

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Taking some Chinese ways of life by not all of it.

Question 23

Samurai

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(means those who serve)

Warriors

Question 24

Bushido

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(means way of the warrior)

Code for samurai to be honorable, brave, and 100% loyal to your lord

Question 25

Grand canal

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Completed during the Sui dynasty, it linked the Huang river to the Chang river

Question 26

Gentry

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Wealthy landowning class

Question 27

Mongols

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Nomadic headers that liked to conquer people

Question 28

Yuan dynasty

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A Mongol dynasty, white and Blue Porclelain is introduced.

Question 29

Wu Zhao

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A very sneaky and cruel empress, that climbed the stairway of Pierre through deception and cruel deeds. Was the very first women Chinese emperor

Question 30

Tang Dynasty

Answer 30

When the Sui dynasty began to fall, general Li Yuan’s 16 year old son Li Shimin urged him to revolt. Together they crushed all their rivals and established the Tang dynasty.
Made land reform.