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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Tang dynasty | Tang Taizong ruled, went after Han, big conquerers, fell apart |
| Scholar officials | Tang rulers strengthed the central gov. while building more roads and canals to unite the empire. |
| Gentry | scholar officals created a new, wealthy, upper class (powerful, well-to-do class.) |
| Song dynasty | built many public works & expanded roads/trade routes. Advances in art & architecture specifically painting sculpture, porcelain. Advances in math, science, medicine were made. Gun powder, compass. |
| Acupuncture | thin needed are inserted into energy points on the body. |
| Footbinding | binding of a young girls feet to prevent them from growing |
| Moveable type | used blocks with characters create a page that could be printed |
| Steppe | The mongols come from Eurasian Steppes: unbroken band of treeless grasslands |
| Pastoralists | People of Steppes were nomads called Pastoralists: people that herded domesticated animals, many of these people lived together in class. |
| Genghis Khan | The mongol clan leader Temujin tried to unify the mongols under his rule. He accepted the title of Genghis Khan: universal leader. Over the next 21 years he would lead them them in conquering much of Asia. When Genghis Khan dies, his sons and grandsons w |
| Khanate of the Great Khan, Khanate of the Golden Horde, Kublia Khan, Marco Polo | ON PAPER-MUST READ |
| Tamerlane | a turkish-mongol ruler, would have a brief rise to power in central asia at this time but his empire wouldn't last long after his death |
| Archipelago | (feudal Japan geo.) Japan is an Archipelago: island group |
| Shinto | clans controlled territories & their varied customs & beleifs combined to form Shinto, Japans earlier religion. |
| Kami | People worshipped kami, different spirits & gods that embodied different ideas or events |
| Pax Mongolica | Mongol rule imposed peace, stability, and order across much of Eurasia. This increased foreign trade as well as spreading Chinese technology to Europe. Along with silk and porcelain, Europe gained access to gunpowder, printing, compass, paper currency, pl |