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| Who unites the Mongols? | Ghengis Khan |
| Who is Genghis Khan's grandson? | Kublai Khan |
| Ascendancy means what? | To rise to power. |
| Why were the Mongols better for trade than China had been? | They were more tolerant of other countries' customs and traditions. |
| What else did the Mongols do to increase trade? | They reopened the Silk Road, they encouraged Christian and Buddhists to come to China. |
| Why were the Mongols so successful in Battle? | #1 Ghengis Khan's brilliant leadership skills, he was ruthless, #2 they adapted weapons better, #3 and they used horses. |
| True or False? The Mongolds were better for trade than had been the Yuan Dynasty? | True: They were much more oper to foriegn contact. |
| True or false: The Ming Dynasty was poorer for trade than had been the Mongols? | True- they went back to the old Cunfucian ideas of orderly, structured society, and they did not feel that the rest of the world had much to offer. |
| What is a despot? | He is a cruel tyrant of a ruler. |
| What is a tributary (state)? | They paid money to China to keep China at bay. (from conquering/beating them up) |
| Who was Zeng He? | He was a Chinese traveler who led voyages all the way to the east coast of Africa. |
| Who was Marco Polo? | He traveled from Europe to China and then wrote about his adventures. |
| Who was Hongwu? | He was the first Ming emperor. He returned China to the merit system and bureaucracy, but became a despotic ruler. |
| Which key Chinese inventions really impacted the world? | Gunpowder, the compass, paper, and moveable type printing. |
| True or False? Nations like Korea, Vietnam, and Japan were greatly influenced by China. | True: They use chopsticks, they borrowed the Chinese writing system, and the adopted many of the government practices, and religions. |
| True or False: Paper money made trading easier, and therefore helped trade? | True. It was much easier to carry around paper money instead of "cash" or metal money. |
| Who helped spread Chinese inventions west? | The Islamic empire/ muslims introduced things like gunpowder, the magnetic compass, and paper to the Europeans. |
| What does "conservative" mean? | resistant to change. |
