Tcap Review Flashcards
Tang dynasty
Developed a successful form of government and administration and had a cultural and artistic flowering that amounted to a golden age.
Genghis Khan
He established a giant and unified empire.
He created the first Mongol writing system and their first postal system.
He built the world’s most powerful fast cavalry.
Marco Polo
merchant and adventurer who traveled along the silk road from Europe to Asia remaining in China for 17 of those years, and who’s known as the Travels of Marco Polo.
The silk road
network of trade routes connecting China and the Far East with the Middle East and Europe.
Song dynasty
first in world history to use paper money and the first Chinese government to establish a permanent standing navy.
Kublai Khan
grandson and greatest successor of Genghis Khan. As the fifth emperor of the Yuan, or Mongol, dynasty he completed the conquest of China.
Ming Dynasty achievements
Strengthened and extended the Great Wall of China Conducted maritime expeditions for diplomacy and trade,
Produced made porcelain improvements and isolated themselves.
Reunification
is the potential unification of territories currently controlled, or claimed, by the People’s Republic of China
Mongol Empire
was founded by Genghis Khan Genghis united nomadic tribes of the Asian steppe and creating an effective army with fast, light, and highly coordinated cavalry. and was really big.
Yuan Empire
a part of the Mongol Empire the Yuan Dynasty was amazing for its size, humble beginnings, paper money, largest armadas, technology, monumental over-spending.
Zheng He
Zheng He was a Chinese mariner, explorer, diplomat, fleet admiral, and court eunuch during
Buddism
Buddhists believe that the human life is one of suffering, and meditation, spiritual and physical labor, and good behavior are the ways to achieve enlightenment, or nirvana.
