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European Names for China
Choose from these words to fill the blanks below:
Zhongguo, Ptolemy, Ming, intellectual, Suleiman, political, dynasty, Asia, Tang, Ottoman, Romans, themselves, Warring, Battuta, heaven, Venetian, Moroccan, Tudela, products, Matteo, classical, 1136, Islamic, Serica
China didn't enter the                          landscape in Europe until the end of the 16th century
Chinese                      didn't refer to the territory as such
260 BCE                States of China
the center states called themselves                 
the cultural and political nucleus of the civilized Chinese world
         AD first European map of Chinese territory
but did not provide a general name for China
for the Chinese, China was a cultural entity that was above the                    state
the most common name was "tian xia" meaning "everything under             "
appears mainly in the                    texts
historical records named China after the reigning               
Han (206 BCE - 220 CE)
Yuan (1271–1368)
Ming (1368-1644)
by the 15th century, the Chinese referred to themselves as Da          (the Great Ming)
"Da Ming" and "Da Ming Hai" was the name given for China and the China sea on              Ricci's map
name for China in the                world
travelers who referred to China
a medieval                  traveler and scholar, who is widely recognized as one of the greatest travelers of all time
known for his extensive travels, accounts of which were published in his Travels
journeys included trips to North Africa, the Horn of Africa, West Africa, Middle East, India, Central Asia, Southeast Asia and China
                 I (1494-1566)
was the tenth and longest-reigning sultan of the                Empire from 1520 to his death in 1566
in his administration, the Ottoman state ruled over 15 to 25 million people
Benjamin of              (1130-1173)
a medieval Jewish traveler who visited Europe, Asia, and Africa in the 12th century
vivid descriptions of western          preceded those of Marco Polo by a hundred years
talked of vessels coming from Zin (China)
Marco Polo(1254-1324)
from an outsider's point of view, there was no one name for China
China was first known by the West for its                 
silk was seen by the Western world as coming from a place which the              named after its product
silk came from             , one of the easternmost countries of Asia known to the Ancient Greek and Roman geographers
silk retains in most European languages the initial "s" sound
Serica is to be found in               's map of the oikoumene
European Names for China
The Etymology of the Name Europe