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Chapter 11 East Asia
Question | Answer |
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a group of people who controlled much of the land and produced most of the candidates for civil service | scholar-gentry |
a gift of money or property paid at the time of marriage | dowry |
one of four territories into which Genghis Khan's empire was split | khanate |
a revised form of Confucianism | Neo-Confucianism |
a ceramic made of fine clay baked at a very high temperature | porcelain |
a chain of islands | archipelago |
Japanese warriors similar to knights in medieval Europe | samurai |
the strict code by which Japanese samurai were supposed to live | Bushido |
a powerful military leader in Japan | shogun |
head of noble families in Japan who controlled large estates and relied on the samurai for protection | daimyo |
the Japanese state religion | Shinto |
a sect of Buddhism that became popular with Japanese aristocrats | Zen |
a school of Buddhism meaning, "the teachings of the elders" | Theravada |
a school of Buddhism that says nirvana can be achieved through devotion to Buddha, who is considered a divine figure by its followers | Mahayana |
When this dynasty collapsed, there was over 300 years of chaos in China | Han |
This dynasty ruled China from 581-618 | Sui |
This dynasty ruled China from 618-907 | Tang |
This dynasty ruled China from 960-1279 | Song |
This connected the Huang He and Chang Jiang rivers in China and was completed during the Sui dynasty | Grand Canal |
This was a trade route that linked China to Europe | Silk Road |
The Tang dynasty instituted land reform by giving land to these people | peasants |
The Tang dynasty restored this practice, helping to ensure the most intelligent and educated people became members of government | civil service examinations |
This dynasty ruled China during a period of economic prosperity and saw many cultural achievements | Song |
This was invented during the Song and helped to make literature more widely available | movable-type |
She became a powerful emperor of China in the Tang dynasty | Empress Wu |
He united all the Mongol clans in 1206 | Genghis Khan |
This increased significantly during the Mongol Empire | trade |
This dynasty was founded by Kublai Khan in China | Yuan |
The Mongols failed to conquer this island nation because of a massive storm | Japan |
He traveled to China during the Yuan Dynasty and brought back his stories to Europe, helping to encourage other Europeans to travel to China | Marco Polo |
This period in Japan began in the 7th century when power fell into the hands of the Fujiwara clan | Nara |
This period in Japan began in 794 and saw the real power of the country concentrated in the hands of local aristocrats | Heian |
This novel was written by Murasaki Shikibu, an aristocratic woman | The Tale of Genji |
This kingdom on the peninsula of Korea had close ties to China and gained control of the peninsula with China's help | Silla |
This Islamic state began in India at the end of the 10th century | Ghazna |
By 1200, this Islamic state was in control in northern India | Sultanate of Delhi |
He was a ruler of the Mongol state based in Samarqand and amassed a large empire beginning in the mid 1300s | Timur Lenk |
As Muslims took power in India, tensions between Islam and this main religion emerged | Hinduism |
This was the Vietnamese state that emerged in the 10th century | Dai Viet |
This kingdom arose in the present-day country of Cambodia | Angkor |
This kingdom was in present-day Indonesia and the Malay Peninsula | Srivijaya |
This man united the Japanese clans in 1192 | Minamoto Yoritomo |
This was the shogunate of Japan from 1192 to 1333 | Kamakura |
In Japan, if a wife talked too much, did not produce a son, or had a serious illness, a husband could do this | divorce |
Early Japanese society was divided into these | clans |