JEOPARDY China, Korea, Indochina and Japan

Categories The Mongols China Indochina, Korea People Japan Vocabulary

What is ordo? This is the Mongolian word for elite cavalry force.

What is the Yuan Dynasty? This is the name of the Chinese dynasty established by the Mongols.

Who was Batu? This is the Mongol leader who nearly conquered Vienna in Austria.

What are the iron stirrup, specially designed saddles, and the strong horned bow? These are two of the advantages Mongol cavalry had over other military forces of the time?

Who was Genghis Khan? He was the greatest of all nomadic leaders and extended the Mongol Empire through Persia to northern China, including Korea.

What is the Sui Dynasty? This is the short lived Chinese Dynasty that succeeded in reuniting China in 589 and building the Grand Canal.

What is the Tang Dynasty? This Chinese dynasty had its capital at Chang’an and ushered in a 1000 year period, where China was the wealthiest and most sophisticated culture in the world.

What were Buddhism and Confucianism? These two religions were important during the Tang Dynasty.

What was the Song Dynasty? This Chinese dynasty was threatened by the Jurchen or Manchurians in the northeast and the Khitan or the Mongols in the northwest.

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What was the Diamond Sutra printed in 868 during the Tang Dynasty? This was the oldest printed book in history using block printing.

Who were Li Bai and Du Fu? These were the two famous poets of the Tang dynasty, one that drowned attempting to grab his own reflection.

Who was Kublia Khan ? He was given the title Great Khan and ruled over the entire Mongolian Empire in 1210.

Who was Sujin? He was the first real and legitimate Emperor of Japan who reigned in the 300s and claimed descendence from the sun god.

Who was Lady Murasaki Shikibu? She wrote the world’s first novel, Tale of the Genji.

Who was the Minamoto Family? This powerful Japanese family introduced the new feudal official, the Shogun.

What was the Yi Dynasty? This Korean dynasty lasted from 1392 until 1910, when Korea was annexed by the Japanese.

Who was Sejong? He was the Korean emperor who directed the development of a Korean alphabet.

What are Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam? These are the three countries of Indochina.

What was the temple of Angkor Wat located in the remains of Angkor Thom.? This is the huge Hindu temple that was built in ancient Cambodia.

What are Malaysia, Burma, and Thailand These are the other three countries that are sometimes included with the countries of Indochina.

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What was Bushido, it stressed bravery, loyalty, and honor? This was the Japanese code of chivalry used by samurais.

What was the Ashikaga? This was the Japanese family that controlled the shogunate from 1338 until 1538.

What was Zen Buddhism? This was the religion of the samurai warrior that stressed salvation through enlightenment.

What is Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku, and Hokkaido? These are the four main islands of Japan.

What is Shintoism ? This is the native religion of Japan, and it means “ the way of the Gods”

What was seppuku? This is the ritual suicide, sometimes called hari-kari that was considered honorable in Japan during the Age of the Samurai.

Who were the daimyos? These men were the top samurais, much like a feudal lords who presided over a group of lesser samurais.

What is the Kami? These were the numerous gods that inhabited everything in Shintoism.

What was the Grand Canal? This was the engineering feat that connected northern and southern China and the Huang He and Chang Jiang Rivers.

Who were the samurai? These men were the local warrior landlords similar to the feudal lords of Europe.