Asian History Jeopardy Dynastic China Early Japan I n d I a Southeast Asia The Mongols in Asia 10 20 30 40 50

During this China Dynasty most of the Grand Canal was finished, connecting Southern and Northern China. Category 1 - 10

Sui Dynasty

After this Dynasty ended in 220 AD, China divided in dozens of rival kingdoms. Category 1 - 20

Han Dynasty

This Sui Dynasty emperor was so hated because of his brutal use of forced labor and heavy taxation, someone killed him and that was the end of the Sui Dynasty.

Emperor Yangdi

Printing, gunpowder, and steel were all invented in China during this Dynasty.

Tang Dynasty

This Dynasty lost control of Tibet and then retreated into Southern Asia. They made Hangzhou the new capital.

Song Dynasty

This Japanese cultural group would be recognized as the ancestors of most modern day Japanese people.

Yamato

This Prince began to centralize the Yamato government based on the example of the Chinese Tang Dynasty

Prince Shotoku

During the Nara Period in Japan this aristocratic family began to gain more and more political power.

Fujiwara

He established a new system called the Shogunate, with the emperor as the figurehead and the shogun (general) as the one really in charge.

Minamoto Yoritomo

In 1333 this family overthrew the Shogunate government in Japan.

Ashikaga

He died in 323 BC without ever conquering the Indian subcontinent.

Alexander the Great

This Indian Dynasty was important for its many advancements in medicine, mathematics, and astronomy.

Gupta Dynasty

This Emperor renounced war and adopted a policy of nonviolence He promoted religious and cultural tolerance. He also personally worked to spread the teachings of Buddhism. He is famous for his public inscriptions, called his message of peace and love Dharma.

Emperor Ashoka

Kanishka, who reigned for two decades starting around A.D. 78, was the most noteworthy Kushana ruler. He converted to Buddhism and convened a great Buddhist council in this city.

Kashmir

This Kingdom was the meeting point of trade among the Indian, Persian, Chinese, and Roman empires and controlled a critical part of the Silk Road.

Kushan Kingdom

This resulted in the development of many distinct cultures and languages Also, Southeast Asia was never unified under one single central government.

Geographic Barriers (Mountains, Oceans, Valleys)

This was the most powerful kingdom on the Southeast Asian mainland until the Thai arrived North of them

Angkor

The expansion of these pastoral people caused the Thai to move southward into Angkor during the 11th and 12th centuries.

The Mongols

Pressure from these pastoral people caused the Kingdom of Pagan to decline in the 13th century.

The Mongols

This Islamic state emerged after the Muslim conquest of northern India. It began as a trading city that was the rival to Majapahit.

Sultanate of Melaka

He was born as “Temujin” and united the Mongolians when he was elected to this title in 1206 AD.

Genghis Khan

In 1281 Kublai Khan and 150,000 Mongols tried to attack this state, and were famously prevented from conquering it when the fleet was destroyed by a giant typhoon.

Japan

The black outline on the map below shows the Mongol Empire during the reign of which Khan?

Kublai Khan

In 1368 a peasant named Zhu Yuanzhang gathered an army to overthrow the Yuan, and established this Chinese Dynasty.

Ming Dynasty

The expansion of the Mongol Empire affected both of these Southeast Asian groups.

Thai and Burmese