Asian studies

Which dynasty created gunpowder

Tang Dynasty (later used by song dynasty

What was one of the first dynasties in china

Shang Dynasty

Where did human civilization begin

Mesopotamia

What were the 4 greatest inventions

Paper, printing compass , gunpowder

How did the Portuguese people reach Indian Ocean

They went around the Horn of Africa

Domestication of plants and animals helped create settlements in

11,000 BCE

Sumerian city gave way to what empire

Akkadian empire

Hinduism begins where

Indus Valley (Pakistan)

What was the Qin dynasty known for

The construction of the Terracotta Army and the Great Wall

Qin dynasty also did what for china

United china

What did the Han dynasty do

Han dynasty was known for invention of the compass, trading with Rome Egypt and Greece

Tang dynasty did what

Tang dynasty founded pottery making, printing and gunpowder

What was important about kublai khan

Was inclusive of all religions and also started the yuan dynasty

Ming dynasty rose to power when?

The rise of the black death(bubonic plague)

What was important about Zheng he

Zheng he did maritime voyages for china and had one of the largest ships

Why did the Chinese maritime voyages stop

Because of internal conflicts due to the barbaric mongols above

When did the construction of the Great Wall begin

Qin Dynasty

When is most of the Great Wall built

Ming dynasty

Which dynasty started the forbidden city

Ming dynasty

Who traveled the Silk Road while kublai khan was in power

Marco Polo

What were the Portuguese and Spanish doing as they traveled

They attempted to replace all leaders with catholic leaders

Tang empire was how large

Quarter of the worlds population

Who did the Portuguese defeat

The ottomans

How did the black plague spread

Mongols improved connectivity and spread / facilitated the disease

What religion did the mongol empire consist of mostly

Muslim

 

• Christopher Colobus attempted to discover Asia but instead found

 the Carribean islands

William Adam’s was attempting to explore and world and ended up in?

Japan

Why didn’t the mongol empire attack India

They couldn’t get through the Himalayas

Food production spreads better in which direction

East to west latitude is better than longitude

What did the ice age do for the mongols

It cooled the deserts spawning 10-15x more horses

Why did the mongols carry 7-8 horses per person

They did this to have food for the mongols and they dried this meat to make it lighter to carry

Why did the mongols desire more land

To plant more food for there horses

Why did the mongols where silk

To prevent themselves from getting damages by arrows

What happen at the battle of cajamarca

The Spanish beat the Incas with around 150 soldiers due to their technological advancements

How did the Spanish trick the Incas

They pretended to be friendly and and wanted to meet there leader until the Spanish betrayed them

What is the continental axis hypothesis

Cros innovation and animals spread more easily east to west Eurasia axis compared to north South America axis

Where did Arthur James Balfour give his extremely important speech

House of Commons

What did Arthur James Balfour argue

That British deserved to rule over Egypt due to their knowledge of the country argued the British were there for the Egyptians and helping them

What is orientalism

A way of seeing, a way of regularized writing and study that exaggerates and distorts Asia, Asians and Asian cultures

What did orientalism do for the British

It easily established rationalization and colonialism

Pathogenic racism

Racism through biological terms diseases flus, etc

What did the Balfour declaration do

made the British establish a home for Jewish people ( heart of the Zionist movement

Define Occidental

Inhabitants of the west

Who put an end to monarchy in the Durrahi Emoire

Daoud Khan

Is veiling mentioned in the Quran

No

Did the Taliban invent the Burqa

No

Why did Muslim women not need saving

“War on terrorism” saving Muslim women has been a way to justify fighting terrorists and ignores local perception where some Muslim women don’t believe they need saving

Instead of saving what should we do in regards to Muslim women

Expand our understandings of justice and consider various cultural perspectives

The French asked Algerian women to do what to increase modernization and western ideals

Remove their veils

U.S pretends to fight for afghan women rights as a way to

Fight the battle of terrorism after 9/11

Were the Mughals Hindu or Muslim

The Mughals were musl8ms rulIng over Hindus majority

What is Hindustan

A general term meant to refer to India and the Mughal empire and the subcontinent they reside in

Why did the British want trade with India

Needed colonies to supply materials to fund Great Britain it also expanded their market of people they could sell goods to

What was the British east India company

Was created to explore and observe (they are then given rights to land acquisition which made them an army

Who Sir Chanel RalCliffe

Published and constructed the formal maps of India in order to show that the British deserved to rule over them due to their knowledge of the land. Ended up drawing the map based on religions density

What did the British Indian company do to bengal

They annexed them

British East. India was fighting with

The Mughal empire and ended up defeating them so the emperor bahadur shah is exiled to Burma

How did the British conquer India (mainly)

Innovation through trains, railroads, machine guns,

Colonialism definition

when one country or group of people takes control of another, often by force

What did maps do for Europeans

Gave them rationality for colonialism

Why was India get a educated middle class

They were because of English teaching and a national education system

Gandhi united the educated middle class by

influencing them with the peasant lifestyle

Who was jawaharlal Nehru

Leader of congress and first prime minister of India

Who was Muhammad Ali jinnah

Leader of All India Muslim league

What was the Calcutta killing

It was when the Muslim league decided to take action for a separate Muslim country which caused violence between Muslims and Hindus in Calcutta and caused a domino effect

What was the Mountbatten plan

Announced plan for partition of India (June 3rd) Plan

Named viceroy of India

After the partition of India was announced what happened?

A major influx of migrants between Hindus and Muslims attempted to travel to their respective countries and both sides became involved female warfare of raping and capturing women who are not in their religion

What did James Rennel do

Published commerical maps of India

Ralcfliffe never finished

Drawing the maps for Kashmir and jammu

Why is the Shang dynasty the first proven dynasty for china

Was proven by archaeological evidence

That was significant about the Zhou dynasty

Became the era of thinking and had people like Confucius and mecius as well as the “The 100 schools of thought” also had development in art and thinking very influential

Which dynasty has the story of mulan

Sui dynasty

What was importsmt about the Song dynasty

Was conquered by the mongols with Kublai Khan

Yuan dynasty was important because

First dynasty ruled by an outsider (Kublai Khan) and started to put mongols in position of power

Which dynasty made the forbidden city

The Ming dynasty

Admiral Zheng he was apart of which dynasty

Ming dynasty

Qing dynasty was important because

Significant events like the boxer rebellion and opium wars as well as the creation of manchukuo

What happened in the boxer rebellion

China created a group to fight back the British people controlling Beijing because they didn’t like the westerners influence on their country

Why was missionary work so significant

Missionary work bridged the gap between time and space and helped to reflect a counstructed reality to display throughout history

Why did missionary photography begin in china

Missionaries were people of the church wishing to spread Christianity

Who was henke

Was well known missionary for the church that took influential photos in china

Pictures of the Mru people reinforced what notions

Orientalist notions along with Colonial actions

R.H Hutchinson

Photographed the MRU people in indecent ways

Why was nat geo important

Reflected colonialism and racism politics

People coded bronze meant

Indian people

after The collapse the the Qing dynasty

There was a struggle for power between kuomintang and the CCP

Who was the CCP led by

Mao Zadong

Who was the kuomingtang party led by

Chang Kai Sek

Japan invaded china

And ww2 happens at the same time as well as the attack on Pearl Harbor

What was the great leap foward in china

A campaign to alter china from a Agarian to a communist society also develop communes to promote agricultural expansion led to 30 million deaths

What were the four olds

Ideas , cultures , custom , habits with communism

How did Chinese people become aware and employ communism

The Japanese invasion of Manchuria cause a chain of events that led to the communist overthrow of china

Communes were made to

Was created to multiply grain yields

China introduced family planning

To reduce population with birth control and one child policy

Who implanted the one child policy

Deng Xiaoping