Twenty flashcards covering major empires and dynasties across Asian history. Includes the unification of China under Qin Shi Huang, the Silk Road, the Mongol Empire under Genghis Khan, Japan's shogunate and samurai era, the Mughal Empire in India, and the open...
Twenty flashcards covering major empires and dynasties across Asian history. Includes the unification of China under Qin Shi Huang, the Silk Road, the Mongol Empire under Genghis Khan, Japan's shogunate and samurai era, the Mughal Empire in India, and the opening of Japan and China to the West in the 19th century. Suited to AP World History and IB History.
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Qin Shi Huang, who took the title of First Emperor after conquering the warring states, standardising writing, currency and beginning construction of the Great Wall.
A network of overland and maritime trade routes connecting China to the Mediterranean, facilitating the exchange of silk, spices, technology, religion and disease across Eurasia.
The Song Dynasty (960–1279), known for meritocratic bureaucracy via imperial exams, movable-type printing, and early gunpowder weapons.
Genghis Khan, who united the Mongol tribes in 1206 and began a rapid conquest that would create the largest contiguous land empire in history.
It stretched from Eastern Europe to the Sea of Japan, covering roughly 9 million square miles, connecting East and West under Mongol rule (the Pax Mongolica).
Restoring native Chinese rule after Mongol Yuan rule, building much of the modern Great Wall, and sponsoring Zheng He's famous naval voyages of exploration.
A Ming Dynasty admiral who led seven major naval expeditions between 1405–1433, reaching as far as East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, decades before European exploration.
It ended Japan's feudal shogunate system and rapidly modernised the country's military, industry and government along Western lines, transforming Japan into a major power.
A member of Japan's hereditary warrior class, bound by bushido ("the way of the warrior") — a code emphasising loyalty, honour, discipline and martial skill.
A period of near-total isolation from foreign trade and influence (roughly 1639–1853), enforced by the Tokugawa shogunate to limit Western and Christian influence.
Commodore Matthew Perry's arrival with US naval ships forced Japan to open its ports to foreign trade, beginning the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
Babur, in 1526, after his victory at the First Battle of Panipat, establishing a dynasty that would rule most of the Indian subcontinent for over 300 years.
Shah Jahan, who commissioned it as a mausoleum for his wife Mumtaz Mahal, completed around 1653.
He expanded and consolidated the Mughal Empire while promoting religious tolerance between Hindus and Muslims, reforming administration and taxation.
Britain's illegal opium trade into China; when China tried to suppress it, Britain went to war (1839–1842 and 1856–1860), forcing China to cede Hong Kong and open treaty ports.
A massive civil war in China (1850–1864) led by Hong Xiuquan against the Qing Dynasty, resulting in an estimated 20–30 million deaths — one of the deadliest conflicts in history.
An anti-foreign, anti-Christian uprising in China aiming to expel foreign influence, ultimately crushed by an international coalition of eight nations.
The 1911 Xinhai Revolution, which overthrew the Qing Dynasty and established the Republic of China in 1912, ending over two millennia of imperial rule.
Joseon-era Korea (particularly the 19th century) pursued strict isolationism to avoid foreign influence and colonisation, similar to Japan's Sakoku policy.
A conflict over territorial ambitions in Manchuria and Korea; Japan's victory marked the first time an Asian power decisively defeated a major European power in modern warfare.
