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World History Ch 12
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The payment a woman brings to marriage | dowry |
| Breaking up large agricultural holdings | land reform |
| The term for the wealthy landowning class: | gentry |
| What is the term used for an independent country forced to acknowledge the supremacy of another? | tributary state |
| A term for multistoried Chinese temple: | pagoda |
| China remained divided for 400 years until what event? | The rise of the Tang dynasty |
| How did the system of land reform under the Tang emperors strengthen the central government? | It weakened the power of large landowners |
| Under the Song dynasty, China experienced: | a rise in productivity due to improved farming methods |
| The two main social classes of Song and Tang China were the: | gentry and the peasantry |
| Li Bo and Du Fu were famous: | poets |
| Who was Genghis Khan? | The Mongol chieftain who began the conquest of china and whose name means "Universal Ruler" |
| Who was Kublai Khan? | grandson of Genghis Khan who completed the conquest of China |
| Who was Marco Polo? | An Italian merchant who wrote about life in China |
| What was the Ming dynasty? | The Chinese dynasty that toppled the Mongols; Ming means "brilliant" |
| Who was Zheng He? | Ming admiral and diplomat |
| Who forced Mongol customs on conquered peoples? | Genghis Khan |
| Marco Polo was a native of: | Venice |
| How did Chinese agriculture change in the 1500s? | New crops arrived from the Americas |
| The Ming dynasty is especially known for its: | blue and white porcelain |
| How did Chinese attitudes toward exploration change in 1435? | Overseas exploration ended, and China looked inward |
| The percentage of people who can read and write is referred to as the: | literacy rate |
| Under which dynasty did Korea become a tributary state? | Silla dynasty |
| The Korean phonetic alphabet is called: | hangul |
| The name of the present-day country of Korea comes from the: | Koryo dynasty |
| Koreans made an unusual blue-green porcelain called: | celadon |
| Due to its geography, most Koreans live: | along the western coastal plains |
| Korea's development has been strongly influenced by its | location next to China |
| When Korea acknowledged Chinese overlordship: | it also adopted Confucian ideas |
| During the Koryo dynasty: | Koreans produced a flood of Buddhist texts |
| In the 1590s, Korea was invaded by: | Japan |
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