Chapter 5
Asia and the Americas before 1500
While Europe was in its Middle Ages, great civilisations rose far away. China built the Great Wall in stone, invented paper and sent treasure fleets to Africa. India's emperor Ashoka spread Buddhism, and the Silk Road carried goods and ideas across Asia. Across the ocean, the Maya wrote their history in glyphs, the Aztecs built a city on a lake, and the Inca ruled the Andes with knotted cords instead of writing.
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- Dynasty that built most of the Great Wall we see todayMing
- Indian emperor who turned to Buddhism after a warAshoka
- Trade routes linking China to the MediterraneanThe Silk Road
- Invention China gave the world around 105 ADPaper
- Largest religious monument in the world, in CambodiaAngkor Wat
- People of Central America with a full writing systemThe Maya
- Aztec capital built on a lakeTenochtitlan
- Knotted cords the Inca used to keep recordsQuipu
- Inca estate high in the Andes, built around 1450Machu Picchu
- Chinese admiral whose fleets sailed to AfricaZheng He
- Japan's warrior class, loyal to their lordsSamurai