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Chapter 12
World History Chapter 12 Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Individual blocks of characters put into a frame to be used to make a page for printing | Movable Type |
| A large upper class made up of scholar-officials and their families | Gentry |
| A trader who described Kublai Khan and the wonders of China to Europeans | Marco Polo |
| A person who herds domesticated animals | Pastoralist |
| The only woman in China to assume the title of emperor in 690 | Wu Zhao |
| Emperor of China from 626 to 649 whose armies expanded the empire | Tang Taizong |
| Japan's earliest religion that was based on respect for the forces of nature and on the worship of ancestors | Shinto |
| Period from the mid 1200s to the mid 1300s which the Mongols brought stability and order to much of Eurasia | Pax Mongolica |
| One of the professional warriors who served Japanese feudal lords | Samurai |
| A group of people descended from a common ancestor | Clan |