APWH Themes: 1 = H-E Interaction; 2 = Cultural Dev & Interaction; 3 = Politics; 4 = Economic; 5 = Social

Relevant Reading

Text & Secondary Sources

Strayer, Ch 8 The Resurgence of Empire in East Asia

Strayer, Ch 11 Nomadic Empires & Eurasian Integration (Mongols)

Readings re: Mongols

Who Were the Mongol People?

Who Was Chinggis Khan?

General History Vocabulary

Could an Empire be Ruled from Horseback?

Judging the Mongols

Mongol Chronology

cosmopolitan, currency, eunuch, metallurgy, nomadic, pastoral, plague, Sino-, subsistence

People

Name Theme(s) Place/Time Significance (What did this person do?)

Tang Taizong

Uighurs “WEE-

goors”

Zhu Xi

Temujin

Chinggis Khan,

Genghis Khan

Marco Polo

Khubilai Khan

Tamerlane (Timur the Lame)

Big Question: Why didn’t Song China have an industrial revolution?

AP World History Study Guide Unit 3B Name _____________________

China & the Mongols (Ch 8, 11) Score / Hour ___

APWH Themes: 1 = H-E Interaction; 2 = Cultural Dev & Interaction; 3 = Politics; 4 = Economic; 5 = Social

2 Unit 3B Study Guide

Name Theme(s) Place/Time Significance (What did this person do?)

Mehmed II the Conqueror

Vocabulary / Historical Events / Trends

Term Theme(s) Place/Time Definition & Significance

bushido -

& handout

daimyo

Grand Canal

equal-field

system

civil service

exams

fast-ripening

rice

gunpowder

block-printing

“flying cash”

APWH Themes: 1 = H-E Interaction; 2 = Cultural Dev & Interaction; 3 = Politics; 4 = Economic; 5 = Social

3 Unit 3B Study Guide

Term Theme(s) Place/Time Definition & Significance

foot binding

Neo-Confu-

cianism

Nam Viet

The Tale of

Genji

shogun

Kamakura &

Muromachi

Shogunates

samurai

seppuku or

hara-kiri1

Khan

Battle of Man-

zikert

Yuan Dynasty

1 also known as “hari kari”

4 Unit 3B Study Guide

Term Theme(s) Place/Time Definition & Significance

kamikaze

ilkhanate

Bubonic Plague

Short Answer You should be able to answer these questions.

Ch 8 Tang/Song China & East Asia

1. Which religions/belief systems were the most common during the Tang dynasty?

2. How much of the Han Dynasty’s governmental techniques/structure did the Tang dynasty copy? How

did the Tang dynasty attempt to avoid the problem(s) that had caused the Han Dynasty to end? How

well did their attempts work, and what caused their attempt(s) to work/not work?

3. What new class of military official emerged in Japan in the post-classical era? What were their

responsibilities/functions?

4. What differences existed in the rights granted men and women in post-classical China? How did

those differences vary by social class?

5. How did the civil service examination system in China compare to other post-classical empires’

bureaucracies?

6. What was unique/notable about The Tale of Genji?

7. Compare the distribution of political power during the Nara, Heian, Kamakura, and Muromachi eras

in Japan.

8. What Chinese cultural characteristics were adopted by Japan, Korea, & Vietnam? (Or influenced by

China?)

Japan Korea Vietnam

5 Unit 3B Study Guide

A variety of factors led to the rise of industrial production in 18th-19th century Europe:

• Geographic Location near an ocean

• Geographic Distribution of coal, iron, timber

• supply of available labor

• urbanization

• improved agricultural productivity

• legal protection of private property

• an abundance of rivers and canals

• access to foreign resources

• accumulation of capital (money)

Which of these did Song China NOT possess? (In other words, why DIDN’T Song China have its own

Industrial Revolution in the 11th century?)

Ch 11 Mongols

9. How did the Mongols, with only a small population, conquer such a vast territory? What military,

governmental, economic, and psychological methods did the Mongols use?

10. What caused the Mongols to stop expanding/conquering (E, SE, S, SW Asia, and into Europe?)

11. How did the Mongols affect the economy of Eurasia during their rule? How did they affect diffusion

in other areas: culture, technology; languages, biology; science?

12. What challenges did the Mongols face in ruling China? What practices/policies did they use to

strengthen their rule? Which of their policies do you think was a mistake, and which do you agree

with? (and why?)

13. Why did the Mongol Empire break up? Why were they able to last as long (or only as long) as they

did?

Unit 3B Study Guide 6

Color & Outline the borders of the

Sui, Tang, & Song Dynasties

Cities Bodies of Water

Kyoto (Japan) Yellow (Huang He)

Chang’an E. China Sea

Beijing S. China Sea

Kaifeng Sea of Japan

Hangzhou Grand Canal

Rivers

Yellow (Huang He) Yangtze

Unit 3B Study Guide 7

Label & Color the 4 Khanates:

Great Khan Ilkhanate of Persia

Golden Horde Chagatai (Jagatai)

Cities:

Baghdad Moscow

Karakorum Samarkand

Khanbaliq (Beijing)