W. History Ch. 7+8

Question 1

Which dynasty made the Grand Canal?

Answer 1

Sui Dynasty

Question 2

Which dynasty was China’s Golden Age?

Answer 2

Tang Dynasty

Question 3

Who were welcomed during China’s Golden Age?

Answer 3

foreigners

Question 4

Which dynasty began footbinding?

Answer 4

Song Dynasty

Question 5

What is the term that means “a chain of islands”?

Answer 5

archipelago

Question 6

What is the name of the Japanese imperial family?

Answer 6

Yamato

Question 7

What’s Japan’s main religion?

Answer 7

Shintoism

Question 8

What’s Japan’s secondary religion?

Answer 8

Buddhism

Question 9

What was the time of great change when Japan adopted a lot of China’s positive political ideas?

Answer 9

Taika Reforms

Question 10

Who was the first Japanese Shogun?

Answer 10

Yoritomo

Question 11

What was a Japanese warrior called?

Answer 11

samurai

Question 12

What was the unwritten code of conduct for Japanese warriors?

Answer 12

Bushido

Question 13

What is a Japanese ceremonial suicide called?

Answer 13

hara-kiri

Question 14

What river divides Korea and China?

Answer 14

Yalu River

Question 15

What is the green glazed pottery from Korea called?

Answer 15

celadon

Question 16

What is Korea’s alphabet called?

Answer 16

Hangul

Question 17

What tribal group took over Vietnam in the 1400’s?

Answer 17

Dar Viet

Question 18

Which river flows through the middle of Indochina?

Answer 18

Mekong River

Question 19

What is the main empire of Southeast Asia from the 800’s to the 1200’s?

Answer 19

Khmer Empire

Question 20

What is the largest religious ruins in the world?

Answer 20

Angkor Wat

Question 21

What European country took control of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos during imperialism?

Answer 21

France

Question 22

What European country took control of Burma, Singapore, and Malaysia during imperialism?

Answer 22

Britain

Question 23

What country remained independent during European imperialism?

Answer 23

Thailand

Question 24

What is the desert in Mongolia?

Answer 24

The Gobi Desert

Question 25

What were round tents with felt waterproof covering?

Answer 25

yurts

Question 26

What was Mongolia's religion?

Answer 26

Shamanism

Question 27

What invention turned the Mongols into great conquerors in the 1200's?

Answer 27

stirrup

Question 28

What has corn, beans, and squash been nicknamed by the Native Americans?

Answer 28

The 3 Sisters

Question 29

What is the main religion of Native American tribes?

Answer 29

Animism/Shamanism

Question 30

What are towns in the Southwest made out of Adobe called?

Answer 30

pueblos

Question 31

What did the Plains Indians use to transport their goods before horses?

Answer 31

dogs

Question 32

What river did the Mound Builders live near?

Answer 32

Ohio River

Question 33

What is the shape of the most well known mound?

Answer 33

serpent

Question 34

What is the name of the 40000 person city from Pre-European times?

Answer 34

Cahokia

Question 35

What type of society did the Eastern Woodland tribes have?

Answer 35

matriarchal

Question 36

What Native American alliance located in New York in the Eastern Woodlands were treated by the British and the French as a nation?

Answer 36

Iroquois Confederation

Question 37

What civilization is known for its calendar?

Answer 37

Mayan Civilization

Question 38

What lethal game did the Mayans play?

Answer 38

ball court

Question 39

What group of people are known for leaving behind statues of colossal heads?

Answer 39

Olmec Civilaization

Question 40

Who was the god who would one day come from the east, across the sea, and usher in a new day of light and peace?

Answer 40

Quetzalcotl

Question 41

What was the Aztec name for Mexico City?

Answer 41

Tenochtitlán

Question 42

How many people did the Aztecs conquer?

Answer 42

5000000

Question 43

What did the Aztecs do daily?

Answer 43

sacrifice

Question 44

Where was the Incan Civilization?

Answer 44

Andes Mts.

Question 45

What was the Incan Capital City?

Answer 45

Cuzco

Question 46

Who was the leader of the Incas?

Answer 46

Pachacuti

Question 47

What was the collection of knotted strings used for accounting and data storage in the Incan Empire called?

Answer 47

quipo

Question 48

# Essay Question: How did China influence the rest of Asia?

Answer 48

Landscape painting, printing, porcelain, the civil service system

Question 49

# Essay Question: Explain Shintoism.

Answer 49

A form of nature worship developed into a cult of national patriotism. Humans are good because they are potentially divine spirits.

Question 50

What was the life of the samurai like? What code did they live by? What were their main values?

Answer 50

Samurai learned military skills and to instill patriotism. They lived by the Bushido. Values=loyalty, honor, duty, justice, courage, sincerity, politeness, and culminating in hara-kiri.

Question 51

# Essay Question: What evidences of advanced civilizations do we see in the Americas before any contact with Europeans?

Answer 51

Totem poles in northwest, pueblos in southwest, the mounds, pyramids, temples, palaces, colossal Olmec heads,