Asia Vocabulary!

5. Kingdom / Chinese name for the Chinese Empire, which they considered as the center of the world.
6. Gautama / Indian religious leader: founder of Buddhism.
7. / A kingdom in Southeast Asia, formerly known as Siam. Capital: Bangkok.
9. / a member of the warrior class in feudal Japan.
11. / the title given in feudal Japan to chief military commanders. In 1868, the shogunate was terminated and the ruling power was returned to the emperor.
12. / The Socialist Republic of Vietnam, a country in Southeast Asia. Divided into North Vietnam and South Vietnam during the Vietnam War but now reunified.
13. climate / extremely dry with little rainfall
15. / a country in South Asia, North of the Bay of Bengal
16. / A Chinese philosopher of the sixth century b.c.; the founder of Confucianism. His teachings have come down to us as a collection of short sayings.
17. / Buddhist king in India 269-232 b.c.
19. climate / mild; not having extremes of temperature or precipitation; moderate rainfall and temps.

1. climate / hot and humid, with abundant rainfall
2. / archipelago islands in the Pacific, southeast of China. Formerly under the guardianship of the U.S.; now an independent republic. Capital: Manila.
3. Wall of China / A line of fortifications across northern China, about 4,000 miles long.
4. / the common religion of India combining many philosophies.
8. / lowest class of the caste system in India, whose touch was believed to defile a “high-caste” Hindu.
10. / a religion, originated in India by Buddha, holding that life is full of suffering caused by desire and that the way to end this suffering is through enlightenment.
14. / a sequence of rulers from the same family. example: the Ming dynasty.
16. / strict social divisions into which people in Hindu society are born
18. / 1869-1948, was the most important leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India. Hindu religious leader, nationalist, and social reformer.