AP World Ch. 15 #2 Flashcards

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