1. Chapter 8
The Asian World

2. Why was the Sui Dynasty important?
- Why the short life of the dynasty?
How did Tang rulers institute reforms?
- Why have the Civil Service Exam?
- Why the demise? How did the Emperor respond?
Why was the Song Empire smaller?
- Why the constant Struggle?

3. Why were these 3 dynasties economically successful?
- Why invent gunpowder?
- What did they trade?
How did the rich thrive during these dynasties?
- Why were the landed/scholarly gentry important?
- Role of women in Chinese society?

5. Wait for it….The Mongols and China
Chapter 8.2
Wait for it….The Mongols and China

6. Why were the Mongols so successful?

7. Why could the Mongols control such a large area?
Why were the Mongols successful in China?
-Why the quick decline?

8. Why so many poets in the Tang Dynasty
Why so many poets in the Tang Dynasty? Li Bo and Du Fu----What are the differences?

9. Why so many landscape paintings?
Why the space or tiny people?
What was the attraction to porcelain?

10. Chapter 8 Section 3
Early Japan and Korea

11. How does Geography handcuff Japan?
What does Japan have to worry about?
Why is the Japanese destiny all their own?

12. Why would it be smart to model China?
How did the Japanese select a supreme ruler?
Why/How did the aristocrats gain power?
Why have an emperor who is losing power?
What was the purpose of the Samurai?

13. Why did the Japanese capital keep moving?
What is a shogunate?
How did the battle with the Mongols end Kamakura shogunate?
Why did the daimyo control power?
How did this cause constant war?

14. So, what do we know about the leadership of Japan?

15. Why was trade important?
What reasons could a man divorce his wife?
Where did the Kami reside?
What did Zen Buddhism teach?

16. Why was Korea influenced by China?
Why did they have divided kingdoms?
Why was the Mongol reign both good and bad for Korea?

17. Chapter 8 Section 4
India after the Guptas

18. Why the Split in Buddhism?
Why was Islam successful in India?
Why couldn’t the Rajputs resist Mahmud’s advances.

19. Why were the Hindu prisoners massacred by Timur Lenk?
What was the end result of his conquest?
What was to fear from the Moguls and Portuguese?

20. Why were Muslims intolerant of Hindus?
Why did Muslims stop trying to convert them?
What was the separation between the rich elite and peasants?
Why was trade important?

21. Why was architecture and prose literature important?