East Asia

Trade from China to Europe  

• made China poor
• Silk Road
• passed along the Grand Canal
• came across the East China Sea

What symbolized the status of women in the Song dynasty?

• Foot-binding
• Empress Wu
• The civil service exam
• The return of Confucianism

What is civil service?

• The flow of nature
• Working on the wall
• Working for church
• Working for government

Which is considered the greatest accomplishment of the Sui Dynasty?

• the building of the Grand Canal that connected northern cities to the agriculture regions in the south
• the building of the Great Wall of China, which protected China's border from invaders
• the creation of Rice Paddy agriculture which led to a surplus of food

This is the vast grassland that stretches across Northern Asia

• Siberia

• Steppe

• Tibetan Plateau

• Ethiopian Highlands

The Mongols were known for being _______________ or people who herd animals from place to place

• Herbalists

• Pastoralists

• Tribalists

• Nomadic wanderers

Around 1200 CE, this person unified the Mongol Empire

• Kublai Khan

• Genghis Khan

• Confucius

• Marco Polo

Why did the Mongols terrorize people?

• To spread fear, thus making them more likely to surrender without a fight
• To make them fight for their lives
• To make other people talk about them, and write about them in books
• They only terrorized people after they conquered them.

Genghis Khan died in 1227 CE. What happened after is death?

• His sons and grandsons continued his campaign of conquest

• The Monngol reign ended immediately

• The Mongols conquered North America

• The Chinese overthew the Mongols

What advantage did the Mongols have over surrounding peoples?

• They were mostly literate, unlike China who mostly was illiterate
• They had more equality than surrounding peoples
• Their calvary, fighting from horseback, unlike the Chinese who were not as well trained
• They didn't care about religion, where as the Chinese made Confucianism the official religion