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Medieval Asia
Mongol, Ming, and other dynasties
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Mandate of Heaven | When dynasty is believed to be chosen by heaven to rule |
| Confucianism | Chinese belief system based on morality, order, and mutual respect in relationships |
| Buddhism | Belief system Chinese adopted to deal with suffering during China's period of chaos |
| Daoism | Chinese belief system blended with Confucianism because in order to be moral you had to live in harmony with nature |
| Dynastic Cycle | Repeating pattern of one dynasty after another gaining and the losing the mandate of heaven |
| Bureaucracy | A government divided into two departments |
| Scholar officials | An educated person with a government position |
| Civil Service exams(state exams) | The test people had to had to take to get a job in the Chinese government |
| Commerce | Trade |
| Urbanization | Development of a city |
| Inventions | a device, contrivance, or process originated after study and experiment |
| Mongols | Fierce nomad worriers who lived in vast plains to the northeast of China |
| Genghis Khan(Temujin) | Untied Mongol tribes and name means universal ruler |
| Kublai Khan | Mongol leader of China after Genghis Khan died |
| Marco Polo | Famous European explorer who traveled the silk road and met Kublai Khan |
| Zhu Yuanzhang | Led rebel army to victory against the Mongols |
| Hongwu | Brought back state exams, built canals, roads, and extended the Great Wall of China. Set up secret service to spy on his people and became Emperor and Prime Minister. |
| Forbidden City | Commoners and foreigners were not allowed into this city |
| Maritime | relate to sea |
| Khan | Ruler |
| Manchuria | Group that conquered the Ming dynasty and took control of China |