40342744 | Ming dynasty | Dynasty that replaced the Mongols | 0 | |
40342745 | Marco Polo | Italian merchant who served at Kublai Khan's court for many years | 1 | |
40342746 | Sui dynasty | Brief dynasty that reunited northern and southern China | 2 | |
40342747 | Tang Tiazong | First great Tang emperor | 3 | |
40342748 | Vietnam, Tibet, and Korea | The three neighboring lands that became tributary states to China | 4 | |
40342749 | Wu Zhao | Tang-era ruler who was China's only female emperor | 5 | |
40342750 | Yuan dynasty | China's mongol dynasty | 6 | |
40342751 | Zheng He | Muslim admiral who led an enormous Chinese fleet on seven extensive voyages | 7 | |
40342752 | Arab | People who won control of western China lands bt winning the Battle of Talus in 751 | 8 | |
40342753 | Sui Wendi | First emperor of the Sui Dynasty | 9 | |
40342754 | Hangzhou | New Song capital city in the south | 10 | |
40342755 | Song Taizi | Scholarly general who founded the Song Dynasty | 11 | |
40342756 | Zhu Yuanzhang | Peasant leasder who founded the Ming dynasty | 12 | |
40342757 | rice | new strains of this staple produced two crops per year instead of one | 13 | |
40342758 | gunpowder | a mix of saltpeter, and charcoal first used for fireworks in Tang China | 14 | |
40342759 | Jin Empire | empire established by Manchurian people in Northern China in the Early 1400's | 15 | |
40342760 | Chang'an | Tang capital city | 16 | |
40342761 | paper money | New type of currency issued by the Song goernmant | 17 | |
40342762 | peasants | China's largest social class | 18 | |
40342763 | civil service exanimation | Test for becoming a Tang or Song government official | 19 | |
40342764 | tea | New product from Southeast Asia that Chinese soo drank, produced, and exported | 20 | |
40342765 | high taxes | Common causes for revolts | 21 | |
40342766 | gentry | China's wealthy, powerful upper class | 22 | |
40342767 | Confucian learning | Body of knowledge that formed the basis of the Chinese civil service examination | 23 | |
40342768 | merchants | Class of people considered inferior by Confucian standards | 24 | |
40342769 | footbinding | Pain*** procedure that resulted in the highly desierable "lily foot" | 25 | |
40342770 | calligraphy | artistic writing skill mastered by the scholar-gentry class | 26 | |
40342771 | porcelain | White pottery prized as the world's finest ceramic | 27 | |
40342772 | Forbidden City | Palace complex of 9,00 rooms built by a Ming emperor | 28 | |
40342773 | mechanical clock | improved time-telling device invented during the Tang era | 29 | |
40342774 | moveable type | individual charecters arranged in frames that allowed fo multiple prints | 30 | |
40342775 | pgoda | graceful temple form with multiple stories and upcurved eaves | 31 | |
40342776 | corn and sweet potatoes | New food crops introduced to China from the Americas | 32 | |
40342777 | poetry | Type of literature produced Li Bo and Du Fu | 33 | |
40342778 | Hinduism and Buddhism | Religions brought to Southeast Asia from India | 34 | |
40342779 | Vietnam | Southeast Asian country controlled by China for 1000 years | 35 | |
40342780 | China | Country from which Korea borrowed many ideas and customs | 36 | |
40344018 | China | Korea;s northern neighbor | 37 | |
40344019 | moutainous | main charecteristic of Korea's terrain | 38 | |
40344020 | Buddhism | Religion that missionaries brought to Korea from China | 39 | |
40344021 | Khmer Empire | Empire that was Sotheast Asia's main power from 800 to the 1200's | 40 | |
40344022 | Angkor Wat | Huge city-and0temple complex built by the Khmer in the 1100's | 41 | |
40344023 | Hanoi | Capital city of Vietnam's Ly dynasty | 42 | |
40344024 | Yalu River | River that forms part of Korea's northern border | 43 | |
40344025 | mongols | Harsh people who occupied and ruled Korea from 1231 until the 1350s | 44 | |
40344026 | Sea of Japan | Body of water that forms Korea's eastern boundary | 45 | |
40344027 | Yellow Sea | Body of water that forms Korea's western boundary | 46 | |
40344028 | Java | Island location of the Sailendra kingdom | 47 | |
40344029 | Sumatra | Island where the capital city of the Srivijaya Empire was located | 48 | |
40344030 | Shilla dynasty | First Korean dynasty; united the Korean peninsula | 49 | |
40344031 | Koryu dynasty | dynasty from which the modern name Korea came from | 50 | |
40344032 | celadon | onique Korean pottery famous for its milky green glaze | 51 | |
40344033 | Choson dynasty | Third Korean dynasty; it ruled from1392 to 1910 | 52 | |
40344034 | Kaesong | Capital city of Korea;s Koryo dynasty | 53 | |
40344035 | mountainous | main charecteristic of Japan's terrain | 54 | |
40344036 | shogun | supreme military commander | 55 | |
40344037 | buddhism | religion brought to Japan from China around 550 | 56 | |
40344038 | samurai | Warriors pledged to serve their local lord | 57 | |
40344039 | China | Country from which early Japan borrowed many ideas and customs | 58 | |
40344040 | The Tale of Genji | Long novel made by Lady Mrasaki Shikibu that told the story of Prince Genji | 59 | |
40344041 | daimyo | Warrioir lords who pledged to support their shogun | 60 | |
40344042 | Honshu | Largest island of Japan | 61 | |
40344043 | Hokkaido | Large northern island of Japan | 62 | |
40344044 | Kyushu | Large southern island of Japan | 63 | |
40344045 | Shinto | Ancient religion of Japan | 64 | |
40344046 | Mongols | people whose naval invasion defeated the Japenese in 1274 and 1281 | 65 | |
40344047 | Heiankyo | Second Japanese imperial capital | 66 | |
40344048 | feudalism | social and political system in Japan from about 800 to 1600 | 67 | |
40344049 | Hari-Kari | ritual suicide practiced by samurai | 68 | |
40344050 | Korea | Asian country invaded by Japn in 1592 | 69 | |
40344051 | archipelago | Term for an island chain like Japan | 70 | |
40344052 | Chinese | Type of writing introduced into Jaan from Korea around 405 | 71 | |
40344053 | Kamakura Shogunate | Military dynasty founded by Minamoto that ruled during the 1200s | 72 | |
40344054 | Tokugawa Shogunate | Line of shoguns who ruled from 1603 to 1868 | 73 | |
40344055 | Warring States period | Violent era of disorder, from mid-1400s to the mid 1500s | 74 | |
40344056 | Nara | First Japanese imperial capital | 75 | |
40344057 | bushido | Samurai code of honor | 76 |
AP World Ch. 15 #2 Flashcards
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