SOCIAL STUDIES CHAPTER 12 Flashcards
(16 cards)
Wu Zhao
The first empress In China
Tang Taizong
The tang emperor who began the great achievements
Movable type
A printer could arrange blocks of individual characters in a frame to make up a page for printing.
Gentry
A class of powerfull, we’ll to do people
Pastoralists
Nomadic people that herded domestic animals
Clan
Steppe nomads who traveled together in kinship.
Genghis Khan
Means universal ruler, the name that Temujin accepted
Pax Mongolica
Mongol peace, where the mongols guaranteed safe passage for travelers
Kublai Khan
The grandson of Ganghis Khan
Marco Polo
The most famous European to visit china, a Venetian trader
Shinto
Japanese earliest form of religion, was called Shinto
Samurai
Loyal warrior bodyguards that protected their lord. Thy followed a strict code called bushido.
Bushido
A demanding code that the samurai imposed on themselves. As know as the way of the warrior.
Shogun
A title the emperor gave that means supermen general of the emperors army. The shogun had the power of a military dictator.
Khmer empire
Was now Cambodia, was the main power on the Southeast Asia mainland
Angkor war
One of the worlds greatest architectural wonders.
