1. The Eastern Empire
WHI SOL Part IX

2. What is the name of the highlighted area?

3. China

4. Name this technology developed during the tang and song dynasties.

5. porcelain

6. What is this textile technology developed in China

7. Silk

8. Name this technology develop during the tang and song dynasties.

9. The compass

10. What type of people used the compass?

11. Travelers

12. What type of travelers?

13. sailors

14. Name this technology develop during the tang and song dynaties.

15. Printing press

16. What is a printing press used for?

17. It is a device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium (such as paper or cloth), thereby transferring the ink.

18. Who was the inventor of the first known movable type printing press technology?

19. Bi Sheng

20. Name this technology developed during the tang and song dynasties.

21. paper

22. These were caravan routes from China that crisscrossed central Asia and brought these innovations to far away places.

23. Silk Road

24. What Mongol leader conquered China?

25. Kublai Khan

26. Who was Kublai Khan’s grandfather?

27. Genghis Khan

28. What did Kublai Khan’s Dynasty become known as?

29. The Yaun Dynasty

30. He was a trader from Venice, Italy
He was a trader from Venice, Italy. He traveled to the Mongol Court in China and ended up working for Kublai Khan.

31. Marco Polo

32. When the Chinese began to rebel against the Mongol rule, some of them used this martial art style developed at the Shaolin temple.

33. Kung fu

34. Kublai Khan tried to invade this country on two separate occasions, but both times he failed

35. Japan

36. Where is Japan on this map

38. What is the name of the sea that separates Japan from the Asia mainland?

39. Sea of Japan

40. Japan is an archipelago. What does that mean?

41. It is a chain of islands clustered together

42. Why were the Mongol navies unsuccessful in taking Japan?

43. During the invasion their ships were destroyed by typhoons

44. What is a typhoon?

45. It is the same as a hurricane
It is the same as a hurricane. once you go west across the International Dateline and into the western Pacific Ocean, they're called typhoons.

46. The Japanese had a name for these winds that destroyed Kublai Khan’s fleet. What was the name for the winds?

47. Kamikaze

48. What does Kamikaze mean?

49. Divine Winds

50. Name three things that the Japanese adopted from the Chinese

51. Buddhism Writing Art

52. Were the Japanese ever conquered by China?

53. No

54. The Torii is a religious symbol
The Torii is a religious symbol. What religion does this symbol represent?

55. Shinto

56. What does it symbolize?

57. The division between the everyday world and the divine world

58. Why is Shinto special?

59. It is a religion that is indigenous to Japan

60. What does indigenous mean in the previous answer?

61. It means that it is from Japan

62. What do worshipers of Shinto believe in?

63. They worship the forces of nature (Kami) and their ancestors

64. In Japan this person was to be worshipped as a god because he was a descendant of the Sun goddess.

65. The Emperor

66. The Warrior class of Japan who served the nobles

67. Samurai

68. Samurai followed a strict code of behavior known as the “The Way of the Warrior”. What is the Japanese Term for this?

70. In Japan, true power was held by the "superior general of the emperors army”. What was the title for this position?

72. What is the name of the African Kingdom that emerged in the highlighted region?

73. Axum 73

74. What religion would Axum become?

75. Christianity

76. What is the name of the large desert in Northern Africa?

77. The Sahara

78. The Caravan routes that are in bold were part of this trade

79. The Trans-Saharan Trade

80. According to this chart, what were the two main sources of the Tran-Saharan trade?

81. Gold and Salt

82. What were the three civilizations that came from thrived because of this trade in West Africa?

83. Ghana, Mali, and Songhai

84. What river was important to all three of these empires?84

85. Niger River

86. What religions were in the highlighted region?

87. Islam and Animism

88. Popular trading city for the Saharan trade, regained its significance as an educational center for Islamic scholars in Africa.

89. Timbuktu

90. A
Timbuktu was located in this area B C D

91. B

92. What is the name of the empire that is highlighted?

93. Great Zimbabwe

94. Which two rivers would have been important for the trade of Great Zimbabwe?

95. the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers95