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Social Studies 9R – Mr. Berman
China and Japan Review
Terms and Concepts for China and Japan:
Dynasties (know the chronology, significant achievements and failures for each one)
- Sui, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming
The Grand Canal
Civil Service Examinations
The Silk Road
Footbinding (whom was it practiced by & why?)
New inventions of the Tang and the Song
Poetry of Li Bo and Tu Fu
clans
Genghis Khan
Kublai Khan
Marco Polo
Ming Hongwu
Yongle
The Forbidden City
Zheng He & his voyages
Shintoism
Kami
Zen Buddhism
Prince Shotoku
Heian Period
Shogun
Daimyo
Samurai
Bushido
Seppuku
Questions to Consider:
1. Why are the Tang and Song dynasties regarded as a Golden Age in China’s
history?
2. What skills and talents allowed Genghis Khan to conquer more than half of the
known world?
3. How did the Mongols rule over their foreign Chinese subjects? What were the
successes and failures of their approach?
4. Why did the Ming Dynasty undertake voyages of exploration? Why did these
voyages eventually stop?
5. Describe Japan’s geography? How have the country’s features (location, climate,
landforms/topography, natural resources) impacted its culture?
6. What did Japan “borrow” and adapt from China?
7. How did Japan become a feudal society in the 1100s? What were the
characteristics of this society?