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

2. During this China Dynasty most of the Grand Canal was finished, connecting Southern and Northern China.
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3. Sui Dynasty

4. After this Dynasty ended in 220 AD, China divided in dozens of rival kingdoms.
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5. Han Dynasty

6. 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.

7. Emperor Yangdi

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

9. Tang Dynasty

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

11. Song Dynasty

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

13. Yamato

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

15. Prince Shotoku

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

17. Fujiwara

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

19. Minamoto Yoritomo

20. In 1333 this family overthrew the
Shogunate government in Japan.

21. Ashikaga

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

23. Alexander the Great

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

25. Gupta Dynasty

26. 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.

27. Emperor Ashoka

28. 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.

29. Kashmir

30. 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.

31. Kushan Kingdom

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

33. Geographic Barriers (Mountains, Oceans, Valleys)

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

35. Angkor

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

37. The Mongols

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

39. The Mongols

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

41. Sultanate of Melaka

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

43. Genghis Khan

44. 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.

45. Japan

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

47. Kublai Khan

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

49. Ming Dynasty

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

51. Thai and Burmese