Asia and Pacific 600-1300

Tang 618-907• Civil Service System• Protectorates and

Tributary• Wood Block Printing• Followed by the

Period of 5 Dynasties and 10 kingdoms 907-960- Warlords

Song Dynasty 960-1279

• First Permanent Navy• First Paper Money Notes• First Compass• First use of Gunpowder

Mongolian Invasion- Yuan Dynasty

• 1260-1294 Kublai Khan Takes over China as first foreign leader of China

• Kublai Khan developed postal system with over 200,000 horses throughout the empire

Early History of the Mughal

• Mongols Invaded India from North

• Wars between the Muslims and Hindu in 8th – 16th century

Feudal Japan

• Establishment of Japanese Feudalism

• Shogun takes power• Nobel Women wear

white make up – visitors had to be behind screens

Pacific Islands• Difficult historically because of oral not written

traditions• Samoa considered the birth place of Polynisian

Culture• government based on fa'amatai (chief running an

extended family) the matais or chiefs would meet together to determine punishment

• Tu’i Manu’a Empire in Samoa dominates polynisian Empire

• Defeated in c. 950 by Tu’i Tongan Empire

Summary Questions1) What is a tributary?2) What was the civil service system?3) What Chinese Dynasty first brought:a) Gunpowderb) Block Printingc) Postal Systemd) Paper Moneye) Foreign Leaders4) Where were there wars between Hindu and Muslims?5) Who is the leader of the Japanese Feudal System?6) What is fa'amatai?7) Thought to be the first people of Polynesia?

Extra Credit

• World History Short: A) Women lives at Hein (Japan) court