Jeopardy 15- East Asia
Garrett
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- Chinese
- Type of writing introduced into Japan from Korea around 405
- civil service exam
- Test for becoming a Tang or Song government official
- Honshu
- Largest island of Japan
- Sea of Japan
- Body of water that forms Korea's eastern boundary
- Confucian learning
- Body of knowledge that formed the basis of the Chinese civil service examination
- porcelain
- Shiny, hard, white pottery prized as the world's finest ceramic
- Sumatra
- Island where the capital city of the Srivijaya Empire was located
- Zheng He
- Chinese admiral who led an enormous Chinese fleet on seven extensive voyages
- Chang'an
- Tang capital city
- mountainous
- Main characteristic of Japan's terrain
- Buddhism
- Religion brought to Japan from China around 550
- Korea
- Asian country invaded by Japan in 1592
- calligraphy
- Artistic writing skill mastered by the scholar-gentry class
- Tang
- Dynasty of 618 to 907 that greatly expanded the empire
- gunpowder
- A mix of salpeter, sulfur, and charcoal first used for fireworks in Tang China
- Hangzhou
- New Song capital city in the south
- magnetic compass
- Floating magnetized needle first used by Chinese sailors
- Java
- Island location of the Sailendra kingdom
- Shinto
- Ancient religion of Japan
- China
- Country from which early Japan borrowed many ideas and customs
- Tokugawa Shogunate
- Line of shoguns who ruled from 1603 to 1868
- Warring States Period
- Violent era of disorder, from the mid-1400s to the mid-1500s
- gentry
- China's wealthy, powerful upper class
- Kublai Khan
- Mongol emperor who ruled all of China
- Marco Polo
- Italian merchant who served at Kublai Khan's court for many years
- Wu Zhao
- Tang-era ruler who was China's only female emperor
- Grand Canal
- Waterway that linked the Huang He and Yangtze rivers
- samurai
- Warriors pledged to serve their local lord
- Hanoi
- Capital city of Vietnam's Ly Dynasty
- rice
- New strains of the staple produced two crops per year instead of just one
- celadon
- Unique Korean pottery famous for its milky green glaze
- archipelago
- Term for an island chain like Japan
- pagoda
- Graceful temple form with multiple stories and upcurved eaves
- Angkor Wat
- Huge city-and-temple complex built by the Khmer in the 1100s
- Ming
- Dynasty that replaced the Mongols
- Khmer
- Empire that was Southeast Asia's main power from 800 to the 1200s
- Hinduism and Buddhism
- Religion(s) brought to Southeast Asia from India
- shogun
- Supreme military commander
- corn, sweet potatoes
- New food crop(s) introduced to China from the Americas
- Kyoto (or Heiankyo)
- Second Japanese imperial capital
- Forbidden City
- Palace complex of 9,000 rooms built by a Ming emperor
- daimyo
- Warrior lords who pledged to support their shogun
- Yellow Sea
- Body of water that forms Korea's western boundary
- Mongols
- Harsh people who occupied and ruled Korea from 1231 until the 1350s
- Song
- Dynasty that lost control of northern China
- Yuan
- China's Mongol dynasty
- Arabs
- People who won control of western Chinese lands by winning the Battle of Talus in 751
- Tale of Genji
- Long novel by Lady Murasaki Shikibu that told the story of Prince Genji
- Song Taizi (Zhao Kuangyin)
- Scholarly general who founded the Song dynasty
- Sui
- Brief dynasty that reunited northern and souther China
- China
- Country from which Korea borrowed many ideas and customs
- Kamakura Shogunate
- Military dynasty founded by Minamoto that ruled during the 1200s
- Nara
- First Japanese imperial capital
- feudalism
- Social and political system in Japan from about 800 to 1600
- peasants
- China's largest social class
- Jin
- Empire established by Manchurian people in northern China in the early 1100s
- merchants
- Class of people considered inferior by Confucian standards
- Vietnam
- Southeast Asian country controlled by China for 1,000 years
- footbinding
- Painful procedure that resulted in the highly desirable "lily foot"
- Yalu
- River that forms part of Korea's northern border
- Mongols
- People whose naval invasion the Japanese defeated in 1274 and 1281
- bushido
- Samurai code of honor
- China (or Manchuria)
- Korea's northern neighbor
- high taxes, forced labor
- Common causes of peasant revolts
- tea
- New product from Southeast Asia that Chinese soon drank, produced, and exported
- Shilla (or Silla)
- First Korean dynasty; it united the Korean peninsula
- mechanical clock
- Improved time-telling device invented during the Tang era
- mountainous
- Main characteristic of Korea's terrain
- Tang Tiazong (Li Shimin)
- First great Tang emperor
- northern China
- Region of China often invaded by nomadic outsiders
- Choson (or Yi)
- Third Korean dynasty; it ruled from 1392 to 1910
- poetry
- Type of literature produced by Li Bo and Du Fu
- paper money
- New type of currency issued by the Song government
- Kaesong
- Capital city of Korea's Koryo dynasty
- hari-kari (or seppuku)
- Ritual suicide practiced by samurai
- Koryu (or Koryo)
- Dynasty from which the modern name Korea developed
- Buddhism
- Religion that missionaries brought to Korea from China
- Kyushu (or Shikoku)
- Large southern island of Japan
- Zhu Yuanzhang (Hongwu)
- Peasant leader who founded the Ming dynasty
- Strait of Malacca (or the Sunda Strait)
- Strait that connects the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea
- Hokkaido
- Large northern island of Japan
- moveable type
- Individual characters arranged in frames that allowed for multiple prints
- Sui Wendi
- First emperor of the Sui dynasty
- Vietnam, Tibet, Korea
- The three neighboring lands that became tributary states to China