Test For 2nd Six Weeks 2nd Test Flashcards
Paradox
2 things going on the same time that are opposite
Egalitarian
Means equal
Matriarch
Means the mother is in charge
Patriarch
Means father is in charge
After Genghis does what happens?.
The Mongols split into four
What are the four empires called?
Golden Horde, il-khan, chagatai, and great khan.
What are Genghis khans tax laws?
Very cruel, uses cruelty as a weapon
What is an example of one of Genghis khans tax laws?
If you do not have children we will take your wife
Kublai khan-
Pax Mongolica, tolerated Chinese culture, no Chinese in top gout, post encouraged foreign trade and foreign merchants
Marco Polo
A Venetian merchant, traveled through yuan China. “Black stones” (coals), gun powder, noodles.
Who spread the black plaque?
The Mongols
Kublia khan-
Experienced several defeats in south east Asia
Ming culture revolution-
Printing and literacy-cheap, popular books: word kicking printing leads to explosion in literacy. Increased interest in culture expressions and ideas
Triangle trade route-
Philippians to China to Japan. Silver floods Chinese markets, develation of currency Chinese immigration, increases interest in Chinese culture
Ming dynasty
Golden age of Chinese art thousands of workers constructed the forbidden city
Imperial China’s impact on history-
Removed religion from mortality.. Beginnings of political philosophy through which a ruler must prove he/she is legitimate
In less the. How many years did the Sui rulers reunified China?
40
Wei-
River valley where Sui rulers built a new capital city
Chang’an
New capital city named honor of Han capital
Grand canal
1,100 mile linking the yellow river in northern China with the Yangzhou to facilitate communication and trade with growing population
Yangzi
Irised in southern China
What did the Sui do?
Made improvements to the Great Wall constructed irrigation systems in highly populated areas, around Yangsi river, waged massive military campaigns against Korea and Vietnam
Sui downfall
Such intense military expansion and public work required levels of organization and resources (people, livestock, wood, iron, staple crops) that they could sustain
In 618 what did the Li family do?
They ended Tempe Sui rule and created the tang empire
Li Shimin
Maintained the eastern borders established by Sui and expanded primarily west ward into Central Asia empower
Khubilai
Genghis’s grandson established a new empire based in China called the yuan
Who ruled yuan
Khubilai
Temujin
Became Genghis khan, supreme leader of the Mongols.
What did Genghis khan do at 1215?
Led the attack on the Jin capital at Beijing
What happened to Genghis’s conquest after he died?
Continued under his son Ogodei
What was the earliest purpose of the Mongol campaign?
To convince the rulers to render tribute
Karakorum
Where Ogodei established the Mongol imperial capital
What happened after Ogodei’s death?
The Mongol empire began to disintegrate
What happened when khubilai declared himself the great khan
The descendants of jagadai and other lineages refuse to accept him
Khubilai declared himself founder of wan hat empire?
The yuan empire
Who did the yuan empire destroy?
The southern song empire
In China what did Buddhist and daoist leaders do?
They visited the great khan and like the Muslims and Christians from Western Eurasia believe that they had all but convinced him to accept there beliefs
What was a lama?
Was a teacher of special techniques for contacting the deities
Khubilai khan
Was the Mongol ruler who best understood the advantages of the Chinese traditions of imperial rule
Where did khubilai khan make his capital?
In Beijing
Khanbalikh
City of khan
Where did khubilai maintain the palace in parks?
In shangdu
Xanadu
Celebrated by the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge it’s stately pleasure dome was the hunting preserve where khubilai and his countries practiced the traditional skills of the riding and shooting
China south of yellow River was ruled by who?
The southern Song
Who was great khan lead by?
Genghis khan
Who ruled the il-khan?
Hulegu
Who ruled the Golden Horde?
Batu
Who ruled jagadai khanate?
Timur
Who ruled the Yuan?
Khubilai khan
Describe the role of women in the Mongol world
Women could command authority every man and woman was trained as fighters they knew how to use a bow and arrow expert on horses doesn’t have to marry and can divorce
What are some advantages of Mongol rule?
It’s facilitated the diffusion of technology trade and religion between the east and the west helped establish the silk Road which help contact between China and the rest of the world spread Islam
Discuss the effects of Mongol domination on Russia
They centralize the government The show was isolated from its neighbors in Western Europe like access to new ideas and inventions
How was the lives of the people that lived under the domination of the Mongol Empire affected
Safe reliable trade simulated commercial cities but countryside was subjected extensive damage in conquest violence and taxes
Sui
Confucianism as central philosophy of government also believes in Daoism Nestorian, Christianity and Islam and Buddhist.
- built the grand canal
Tang-
Central Asian culture and Chinese traditions (weapons and horse men ship)
- sea and sailing technologies equal sea connection.
Song
Considered as another period of “golden age” seafaring and sailing technologies
Ming
Completion of the Great Wall
- restoration of grand canal engineering machinery and equipment military technology medical book
