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Sui, Tang, & Song

The Mongols

Chinggis Khan

Japan Potpourri

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Topic 1: 1 pointIt is believed that the

practice seen below originated during the Tang Dynasty.

What is the foot binding?

Topic 1: 2 pointsThe Sui began

construction on this 1,400 mile long public work that linked the Huang He and Yangtze Rivers.

What is the Grand Canal?

Topic 1: 3 pointsThis practicing Buddhist

concubine turned Tang empress is believed to have killed her daughter in order to become empress

Who is Empress Wu?

Topic 1: 4 pointsThe Tang reintroduced

civil service exams, which helped create this new social class of people who enjoyed high social status due to their government position.

What is the gentry?

Topic 1: 5 pointsOf the Sui, Tang and

Song, paper currency was introduced during this dynasty.

What is the Song?

Topic 2: 1 pointThe Mongols lived in

this geographic area of Central Asia depicted below.

What are the steppes?

Topic 2: 2 pointsMongols were

nomadic pastoralists. They may not have had agriculture, but they were able to do this.

What is domesticate animals?

Topic 2: 3 points

Mongols lived in these tent like structures that are also known as ger in Mongolian.

What is a yurt?

Topic 2: 4 pointsMongols improved

this horseback riding gear, which allowed them to shoot arrows.

What are stirrups?

Topic 2: 5 pointsUnder Kublai Khan,

this dynasty was established in China.

Who is the Yuan Dynasty?

Topic 3: 1 pointChinggis Khan was

not always the “Great Khan,” at birth his father named him this.

What Temujin?

Topic 3: 2 pointsChinggis Khan divided

his empire into four political units known as these. The Golden Horde is an example of one.

What are khanates?

Topic 3: 3 pointsChinggis Khan shot

his half brother because he committed this unforgiveable offense.

What is stole and ate Chinggis’ fish?

Topic 3: 4 pointsHe was Chinggis

Khan’s childhood friend, blood brother, and assisted in the recovery of Borte from the Merkits.

Who is Jamukha?

Topic 3: 5 pointsThis ethnic group

faced the wrath of Chinggis Khan for their assassination of Esugei, his father.

Who are the Tartars?

Topic 4: 1 pointJapan’s geography is

very similar to this southeastern European country that we’ve previously studied.

What is Greece?

Topic 4: 2 pointsThese tropical

cyclones of the Pacific Ocean prevented a successful naval invasion of Japan by the Mongols on two separate occasions. What are typhoons?

Topic 4: 3 pointsThis shogunate

banned western merchants, prohibited international travel, and forced daimyo to live in Edo.

What is the Tokugawa Shogunate?

Topic 4: 4 pointsToday in Japan, due to

land restrictions and expensive real estate caused by mountains, many urban Japanese citizens live in these high rise buildings with small apartments.

What are danchi?

Topic 4: 5 pointsThis Japanese Prince

sent three missions to China and adapted the bureaucratic style of governing and civil service exams for Japan. Who is Prince

Shotoku?

Topic 5: 1 pointShinto is similar to

this religion as both believe everything in nature has a spirit.

What is animism or Daoism?

Topic 5: 2 pointsThis period in Japan

featured the regulation of the length of swords, color of robes, women painting their teeth black and prohibited laughing in public. What is the Heian

period?

Topic 5: 3 pointsSeen here, these

structures separated the world of the living from the world of the kami.

What are torri?

Topic 5: 4 pointsJapanese samurai had

to adhere to this code, if not they should commit seppuku.

What is bushido?

Topic 5: 5 pointsJapanese emperors

were believed to have descended from this sun goddess.

Who is Amaterasu?

Daily Double!

As a team, decide how many of the points you already have you wish to wager.

If you get the question correct, you will earn double the points you wagered.

If you get the question incorrect, you will lose the points you wagered. Good luck!

Daily Double!

As a team, decide how many of the points you already have you wish to wager.

If you get the question correct, you will earn double the points you wagered.

If you get the question incorrect, you will lose the points you wagered. Good luck!

FINAL JEOPARDY!

Category: Sui Dynasty

One of the two terms that alluded to the Chinese who

would break their own limbs to avoid military

conscription.What is “Propitious paws” or “Fortunate Feet?”