WH1 Vocab. Unit 3 (China)

Question 0

Mongols

Answer 0

these people and clans come from the tribal lands of Mongolia and led the Yuan dynasty

Question 1

Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368)

Answer 1

succeeded the Jin dynasty. a dynasty ruled over by Mongols originally taken by ruler Ghengis Khan then brother khubilai. This was a time of great travelers. Their demise can be attributed to the Bubonic plague as well as giving family land grants, the disastrous Korean ship factory, costly and unsuccessful attempts for Japan, Vietnam, and the Indonesian island of java for spice trade, a new paper currency system that was over-printed and inflated, and the failure to keep up anti-flooding technologies. this combination made it seem they lost the Mandate of Heaven and they were dethroned.

Question 2

Ghengis Khan

Answer 2

he managed to unite the Mongolian tribes as well as take over the Jin and Sung dynasties with his organized and skilled armies. His son who succeeded was Khubilai Khan

Question 3

Khubilai Khan

Answer 3

son of Ghengis Khan. as leader, he expanded Yuan rule/influence, named the dynasty da yuan (Great Origin), and as a whole, created a more orderly, unified China. He also had some struggle adopting and keeping Chinese and Mongolian traditions. he also made it so, “no single ethnic group or social class became powerful enough to challenge Mongol rule, it united members of the vast Mongolian empire, and it brought the most talented people in the world into the Khan’s service in China.”c

Question 4

censors

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one who looks over material and suppresses any parts that are obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security

censors were kept being used by Khubilai Khan

Question 5

colloquial

Answer 5

of language used daily, ordinary conversation.

Yuan leaders “encouraged the use of colloquial (daily, spoken) Chinese in writing, rather than the classical Chinese of scholarship.”

Question 6

Marco Polo

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a traveler who was a merchant and became a government sponsored accountant or foreign lands. He wrote some of the oldest details of geography and topography of that time.

Question 7

Bubonic Plague

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an epidemic that caused the deaths of 1/4 to 1/3 of Europe’s and China’s populations in 1334 CE. This was strengthened and pass through rodents. started in the Gobi desert. cut trade dramatically by half.

Question 8

Pax mongolica

Answer 8

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