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Medieval Asia
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Why did China trade mostly by sea rather than through their mainland? | Difficult land forms to travel across |
| What mountain range protected them from invaders south of China? | Himalayas |
| What nations did China trade with | Philippines, Korea, Japan, Africa |
| What nation bordered China to the north? | Mongolia |
| What river in Southern China provided water for rice farming? | The Chang River |
| When a dynasty is believed to be chosen by heaven to rule | The Mandate of Heaven |
| Dynasty that fell because of corruption, food, shortages, and nomadic invasions resulting in 361 years of chaos | Han Dynasty |
| Chinese belief system based on morality, order, and mutual respect in realtionships | Confucianism |
| Belief system Chinese adopted to deal with suffering during China's period of chaos | Buddhism |
| What place did Buddhism original come from | India |
| Chinese belief system blended with Confucianism because in order to be moral you had to live in harmony with nature | Daoism (Yin and Yang) |
| How did Wendi of the Sui Dynasty reunify China once again | killed 59 royal princes, restore old traditions, star public projects like road & canals, and freedom of religions |
| How did Tang emperors unify China even more | Expanded China's network of roads and canals |
| the repeating pattern of one dynasty after another gaining and the losing the Mandate of Heaven | Dynastic Cycle |
| 3 types of people we looked at that were chosen to work in the Dynasties' bureaucracy | Aristocrats, foreigners, scholars |
| wealthy people chosen by Han,Sui, and Tang Dynasty to help run government | Aristocrats |
| People who were educated and had to take an exam to be able to work in China bureaucracy | scholars |
| Govt. workers hired by the Mongol rulers to help govern China | trusted foreigners |
| a highly organized group of government officials running various departments | Bureaucracy |
| name for scholars who goy government jobs by passing the state examination | scholar officials |