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Chapter 12 China
Mr. Henry [[test on 4-17-08]]
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History
6th Grade
04/13/2008

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a palace roof is held in a place by ___ ____ ___ ____
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200 cards of silk
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student preparing for elvil service exams ___ ___ ___ ____
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never did physical work
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____ ____ helped ships sail farther from land , was invented in italy and was used by warriors
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the compass
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______ _____ wanted to end chinese voyages b/c they brought new ideas to china, they cost to much, and they made merchants rich
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confucian officals
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Trade grew under the tang dynasty ____ __ ____ ____ ___ ______
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b/c of new road waterways
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kublai khan and other culture of the mongold were diffrent from the chinese in that the mongol kept their own ____ ___ _____
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lanugage and customs
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____ ____ wrote a book about his travelers
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marco polo
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it was the ____ _____ that ordered the history of the first and second han dynasties be printed
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han dynasty
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the chinese discovered that when molten iron mixed with carbon from coal it created stronger metal called _____
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steel
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chinese paintings durring the song dynaty, were often of ______ __________
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surrounding landscapes
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the eariestprinting prosses used cutson ____ ____ _____
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blocks of wood
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the mongols were known for being ____ ______
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fierce warriors
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the religon of buddism spread 2 the near by isnd of _____
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japan
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the forbidden city was ______ ___ ___ _____
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destoyed by the mongols
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durring the ming dynasty a census was taken ___ _______ ____ ______
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to accurately collect taxes
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________ makes the roof of a chinese structure waterproof
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varnish
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missionaries in china were often ____ _____
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jesuits priests
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the mongol empire was apporximately ____ ______
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4500 miles
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farming improved under the tang dynasty b/c the _____ ____ _____,____ _____ _____ ___ ___ _____ _____ _____ ___ ___ ________
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countryside was peaceful, rice development improved and the tang gave land to the farmers
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chinese rulers activly supported ____ ___ _______ and invited artists to the capital of changan
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art and literature
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_____ _____ _____ was tge earliest known chinese printed book
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the diamond sutra
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_______ built the grand canal to unit the hang he and chang jiang rivers
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yangdi
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the cinese traded in ____ ______ ____ ____
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silk, porcelain and tea
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the mongols lost control of china ____ ____ _____ durring the 1400's
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durring the 1400's
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the ____ ____ was startedwas started by kublai khan it was dominated by mongol leaders and lasted about 100 years
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yuan dynasty
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the sui dynasty ____ ____ ___ _._._____
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reunited china in A.D. 581
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novels were long fictional stories popular durring the ming dynasty
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novels
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___ ___ was popular poet durring the tang dynasty
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li bo
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a _______ men made up a armed forces of a keshik
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1000
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___ ____ ____ was a major trade rout in china that connected w/ the rest of asia + europe
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the silk road
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