Chapter 12

Question 1

Tang Taizong

Answer 1

The Tang emperor that made great achievements such as expanding the empire

Question 2

Wu Zhao

Answer 2

ruler in the campaign in Korea, only woman ever to assume title of emperor

Question 3

movable type

Answer 3

a printer could arrange blocks of individual characters in a frame to make up a page for printing

Question 4

gentry

Answer 4

a class of powerful, well to do people

Question 5

pastoralists

Answer 5

nomadic people—herded domesticated animals

Question 6

clans

Answer 6

steppe nomads traveled together in kinship groups

Question 7

Genghis Khan

Answer 7

Mongol khan named Temujin, accepted title of “Genghis Khan” or “universal ruler”

Question 8

Kublai Khan

Answer 8

China’s new emperor, founded new dynasty called the Yuan Dynasty

Question 9

Marco Polo

Answer 9

most famous European to visit China in these years was a young Venetian trader

Question 10

Shinto

Answer 10

Japan’s earliest religion “way of the gods”

Question 11

samurai

Answer 11

bodyguard of loyal warriors “one who serves”

Question 12

Bushido

Answer 12

samurai lives to a demanding code of behavior “the way of the warrior”

Question 13

shogun

Answer 13

Yoritomo the title of “supreme general of the emperor’s army”