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| 34776916 | Sui unification | founded by Yang Jian, known for violent temper, conquered China. | 0 | |
| 34776917 | Tang Buddhisn | political use of Buddhism during the Tang Empire | 1 | |
| 34776918 | Cosmopolitanism | Urban growth during the agricultural revolution. It dealt with the migration from rural to urban areas. | 2 | |
| 34776920 | Relationship between Japanese/Chinese customs | Japan drew inspiration from China but maintained it's own distictive traditions | 3 | |
| 34776921 | Murasaki Shikubu | Japanese novelist, one of the greatest writers, wrote the tale of genji | 4 | |
| 35883618 | Teotihuacan | (100B.C.E - 750 C.E.) largest city in the Americas. 30 miles northeast of modern Mexico City. | 5 | |
| 35883619 | Chinampas | floating gardens | 6 | |
| 35883620 | Maya | Mesoamerican civilization concentrated in Mexico's Yucat?n Peninsula and in Guatemala and Honduras but never unified into a single empire. Major contributions were in mathematics, astronomy, and development of the calendar. (p. 302) | 7 | |
| 35883621 | Aztecs | (1200-1521) 1300, they settled in the valley of Mexico. Grew corn. Engaged in frequent warfare to conquer others of the region. Worshipped many gods (polytheistic). Believed the sun god needed human blood to continue his journeys across the sky. Practiced human sacrifices and those sacrificed were captured warriors from other tribes and those who volunteered for the honor. | 8 | |
| 35883622 | Tenochtitlan | Aztec capital | 9 | |
| 35883623 | tribute system | A system in which defeated peoples were forced to pay a tax in the form of goods and labor. This forced transfer of food, cloth, and other goods subsidized the development of large cities. An important component of the Aztec and Inca economies. (p. 307) | 10 | |
| 35883624 | Anasazi | Native American who lived in what is now southern Colorado and Utah and northern Arizona and New Mexico and who built cliff dwellings | 11 | |
| 35883625 | khipus | system of long ropes that were used to keep record of finances for the Inka | 12 | |
| 35883626 | ayllu | Andean lineage group or kin-based community. | 13 | |
| 35883627 | Wari,Chimu, and Moche | periods of change | 14 | |
| 35883628 | The Inca | Powerful empire in area now Peru; skilled builders constructed complex cities in the Andes Mountains; Machu Picchu is most famous city; were defeated by the Spanish who took their gold and silver found in the Inca empire | 15 | |
| 35883629 | Genghis Khan | he official title of a Mongol warrior named Temujin, a 13th century ruler who founded an empire that included parts of China, Central Asia, the Middle East and Europe | 16 | |
| 35883630 | Mongols | Central Asian nomadic peoples; smashed Turko-Persian kingdoms; captured Baghdad in 1258 and killed last Abbasid caliph | 17 | |
| 35883631 | steppes | dry high plains | 18 | |
| 35883632 | bubonic plague | Also called the Black Death was a deadly disease that spread through Europe and killed one out of every three people | 19 | |
| 35883633 | Il-Khan | representatives of the Great Khan who ruled Iran & Iraq in Middle Ages | 20 | |
| 35883634 | Golden Horde | a Mongolian army that swept over eastern Europe in the 13th century | 21 | |
| 35883635 | Timur | Mongolian ruler of Samarkand who led his nomadic hordes to conquer an area from Turkey to Mongolia (1336-1405) | 22 | |
| 35883636 | Ibn Khaldun | A Muslim Historian who wrote that all civilizations, rise and fall. He was also one of the first historians to study the affect of geography and climate on people. | 23 | |
| 35883637 | Alexander Nevskii | He was the prince of Novgorod. He convinced other princes that it would be best if they went along with the mongols. | 24 | |
| 35883638 | Ottomans | Turks who had come to Anatolia in the same wave of migrations as the Seljuks. | 25 | |
| 35883639 | Mamluks | Muslim slave warriors; established a dynasty in Egypt; defeated the Mongols at Ain Jalut in 1260 and halted Mongol advance | 26 | |
| 36799303 | Marco Polo | Venetian merchant and traveler. His accounts of his travels to China offered Europeans a firsthand view of Asian lands and stimulated interest in Asian trade. | 27 | |
| 36799304 | Attempted invasion of Japan | The Mongols couldnt invade Japan because of natural disasters. | 28 | |
| 36799305 | Kamukura Shogunate | feudal military dictatorship in Japan headed by the shoguns. | 29 | |
| 36799306 | Neo-Confucianism | term that describesthe resurgence of confusianism and the influence of confucian scholars during the Tang dynasty | 30 | |
| 36799307 | Yongle | Ming emperor who sponsored the voyages made by Zheng He & constructed the Forbidden City. | 31 | |
| 36799308 | Zheng He | An imperial eunuch and Muslim, entrusted by the Ming emperor Yongle with a series of state voyages that took his gigantic ships through the Indian Ocean, from Southeast Asia to Africa. | 32 | |
| 36799309 | Yoritomo | member of the victorious Minamoto clan who is the 1st shogun of the Kamakura shogunate | 33 |
