SSL 2nd 9 Weeks Test Review

6. This is the traditional religion of Japan.
7. This crop helped populations grow during the Tang and Song dynasties.
9. Under the Fujiwara family, the emperor lost control of his government and became nothing more than a _____________.
10. The Tale of Genji was written by a ___________
14. This belief system had the strongest support from the Chinese government.
15. This is what made daimyos so powerful at first in the Japanese feudal system
18. Ghengis Khan is important because he ___________ the Mongols
19. The Tang dynasty is said to have produced the finest examples of this Chinese art.
20. This system of belief held that people should give up worldly desires and seek enlightenment.
21. These are storytellers who preserve African oral traditions by telling stories.
23. In most traditional African religions, people honored __________.
24. Trans-Saharan trade in early West Africa MAINLY involved the exchange of __________ for gold.

1. Peasants had to give their daimyo labor and __________ in exchange for protection.
2. Who brought Muslim scholars, artists, and teachers from his hajj to work in Mali.
3. When the Mongols came to power, they ___________ the Silk Road to trade.
4. Under the emperors of the Tang dynasty, China __________ greatly in size.
5. Emperor Yongle built this to restore China's authority and present it as the center of the world.
8. Scholar-officials had to pass exams based on the teachings of __________.
11. This was the second West African empire to grow rich from the gold-salt trade.
12. These are produced from the movement of Earth's plates underneath Japan.
13. After Emperor Yongle's death, the Ming ___________ overseas travel.
16. This was the code of the samurai, which was translated to mean "the way of the warrior"
17. This Chinese emperor drove out the Mongols and made himself absolute ruler of China.
22. Minamoto Yoritiomo, Japan's first shogun, had to defeat which clan?