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| 12545865626 | Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) | overthrew the yuan dynasty, stabilized the East Asian region of nearly 300 years, ming era saw Portuguese and Europeans who aimed to enrich on the asian trade network | 0 | |
| 12545865627 | Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) | Manchu overthrew ming, during both dynasties Japan and Korea experienced parallel developments with unique aspects | 1 | |
| 12545865628 | Bejing and Nanjing | both north and southern capitals were beatified, members the royal family lived in the Forbidden City a walled compound of royal places | 2 | |
| 12545865629 | Zheng He | Muslim admiral sent on the first of seven great voyages by the Ming Emperor Yongle in 1405, | 3 | |
| 12545865630 | Monopoly | aim of the construction of Portuguese forts, establish it over spice trade and to license all vessels trading. the forts gave Portugal a global trading post empire, one based on small out puts not control of large territories | 4 | |
| 12545865631 | Jesuits | followed Portuguese and tried to win over the Chinese court elite, scientific and tech knowledge were the keys to success. | 5 | |
| 12545865632 | Li Zicheng | during 1644 famine this minor court official led a peasant revolt, conquered the Chinese capital Bejing, | 6 | |
| 12545865633 | Queues | men who were obligated to dress in Manchu style wore these braided pigtails which made their culture dominant in china, those who refused were executed, like the mongols the Manchurian supported Qing put their own people on top positions of government | 7 | |
| 12545865634 | Tibet | mountainous land of north India, china imposed a protectorate over it, a policy reflected in Chinas control of the region today | 8 | |
| 12545865635 | Kangxi Dictionary | Composed by Kangxi a Confucian scholar and poet, he urged the building of schools, 42000 characters in dictionary which became the standard Chinese dictionary of the 18 and 19 century, | 9 | |
| 12545865636 | Emperor Qianlong(1736-1795) | Qing ruler, poet who was also knowledgeable in art and calligraphy, at the beginning of hid reign the country was well administered and government tax collections were at an all time high, | 10 | |
| 12545865637 | Guangzhou | also known as canton, Britisher weren't satisfied with these limited trading privileges so they asked for more trading rights 1793, | 11 | |
| 12545865638 | White Lotus rebellion (1796-1804) | after Chinese bureaucracy became corrupt there was an effective of high taxes, in a response and a desire to restore the Ming dynasty a group of peasant organized this, The Qing gov supposed the uprising brutally killing 100000 | 12 | |
| 12545865639 | Journey to the West (1590s) | a fictional version of Xuanzangs pilgrimage to Buddhist sites in India, | 13 | |
| 12545865640 | Daimyo | conflicts between landholding aristocrats left Japan in disarray, each one had his own army of warriors known as samurai, ambition to conquer more territory, and power to rule his fiefdoms as he saw it | 14 | |
| 12545865641 | Oda Nobunaga | first powerful daimyo armed with muskets purchased from Portuguese traders, took over Kyoto 1568, unified 1/3 Japan before assassinated 1582 | 15 | |
| 12545865642 | Toyotomi Hideyoshi | Nobunaga successor, expanded territory to most of Japan under his control, after death 1598 the center of power shifted to the city of Edo | 16 | |
| 12545865643 | Tokuhawa Shogunate | set about reorganizing the governance of Japan in order to centralize control over what was essentially a feudal system | 17 | |
| 12545865644 | Ronin | samurai without masters, some roamed the countryside becoming bandits, gov urged samurai to become bureaucrats even though that profession didn't pay as well as it did in the past | 18 | |
| 12545865645 | Eta | very bottom rung of society, comparable to untouchables in India, ostracized because they performed unclean jobs such as executioner until 1871 | 19 | |
| 12545865646 | Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) | most important contributor to literature in this time, poet, developed Haiku, | 20 | |
| 12545865647 | Hermit Kingdom | beside link with china Korea remained isolated earning this title | 21 |
