wh 14 x2 Flashcards
(41 cards)
Sun Goddess
ameratsu
Promotion system in China
meritocracy
Belief spirits inhabit everything
animism
Overthrew Mongol rule in China
Zhu Yhanzhang
Ordered construction of Ankor Wat
Suryavarman II
Royal messenger
Marco Polo
“the way of the gods”
shintoism
Wealthy elite Chinese scholars
mandarins
Mongol dynasty in China
yuan
Dynasty fell, in part, to Turkish revolt
tang
Dominant European power in Indonesia by the 1500’s
portugal
First center of Islam in S. E. Asia was in.
melaka
Approximate number of islands in area of S. E. Asia
10,000
Traditionally, Japanese emperors were
figureheads
The Mongol Empire broke into factions based on
regional culture
Chinese official state philosophy.
confucianism
Code of conduct for samurai.
bushido
Occupied country where government officials wrote and spoke native language, but wrote their official documents in Chinese.
Vietnam
Chinese export highly prized in the West.
china
Influenced by China and Korea but didn’t adopt meritocracy.
japan
Genghis Kahn codified Mongol laws which were called?
yasa
The three kingdoms of Korea: Silla, Paekche and,
koguryo
First major power to emerge from central Asia.
seljuk turks
The peoples of the central Asian steppe region based their nomadic communities on
clans