Chapter 8: The Asian World

Korean Peninsula

The ________, only slightly larger than the state of Minnesota, is relatively mountainous.

Agriculture

________ was not the only source of wealth in India.

Chao Phraya

The Thai set up their own capital at Ayutthaya (ah•YU•tuh•yuh) on the ________ (chau PRY•uh) River, where they remained as a major force in the region for the next four hundred years.

eighth century

During the ________, the Tang dynasty weakened and became prey to rebellions.

Daoist influence

________ was also evident in the portrayal of human beings as insignificant in the midst of nature.

Tang

The period between the ________ and Ming dynasties was in many ways the great age of Chinese literature.

Italian merchant

In the late thirteenth century the ________ Marco Polo described the city to European readers as one of the largest and wealthiest cities on Earth.

1432

In ________, the Thai from the north destroyed the Angkor capital.

Angkor

________ faced enemies on all sides.

Thai

The ________ first appeared in the sixth cen- tury as a frontier people in China.

Kyoto

In 794, the emperor moved the capital from Nara to nearby Heian, on the site of present- day ________.

China

Buddhism was brought to ________ in the first century A.D. by merchants and missionaries from India.

Sui

The era from the beginning of the ________ dynasty to the end of the Song dynasty lasted nearly seven hundred years.

Gunpowder

________ was also invented during the Tang dynasty and was used to make explosives and a primitive flamethrower called a fire- lance.

Geographical barriers

The ________ encouraged the development of separate, distinctive cultures with diverse cultural practices, such as different religions and languages.

Sui Yangdi

________, the second emperor of the dynasty, completed the Grand Canal, built to link the two great rivers of China, the Huang He (Yellow River) and the Chang Jiang (Yangtze River)

India

When the Arab armies reached ________ in the early eighth century, they did little more than move into the frontier regions.

New kingdom of Majapahit

In the late thirteenth century, the ________ was founded.

Neo Confucianists

________ divide the world into a mate- rial world and a spiritual world.

Li Bo

________ and Duo Fu were two of the most popular poets during the Tang Era.

Burmans

The ________ were pastoral peoples, but they adopted farming soon after their arrival in Southeast Asia.

Vietnam

After the Chinese conquered ________ in 111 B.C., they tried for centuries to make ________ part of China.

Yi Song gye

In 1392, ________, a military commander, seized power and founded the Yi dynasty.

Japanese nation

In time, Shinto evolved into a state doctrine linked to a belief in the divinity of the emperor and the sacredness of the ________.

Han dynasty

The ________ came to an end in 220, and China fell into chaos.

Timur Lenk

________ was the ruler of a Mongol state based in Samarkand, to the north of the Pamir Mountains.

Emperor Tang Xuanzang

________ is remembered for his devotion to a commoners daughter.

Japanese people

Shinto, however, did not satisfy the spiritual needs of all the ________.

Sui Yangdi

________ was a cruel ruler.

eighth century

In the ________, the state of Srivijaya came to dominate the trade route passing through the Strait of Malacca.

Neo Confucianism

________, as the new doctrine was called, served as a Confucian response to Buddhism and Daoism.