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| 5416629440 | Tang Taizong | Second emperor of Tang dynasty (627-649). Murdered two brothers, thrust father aside to take throne. A Strong ruler- his personal name was Li Shimin; great general, war hero; expands China's borders; encourages trade; allows buddhism to spread; let christians and muslims practice. | 0 | |
| 5416629449 | Uighurs | one of the invaders from the north-east, their invasion/betrayal weakened the Tang dynasty and added to their downfall | 1 | |
| 5416630348 | Zhu Xi | (1130-1200) Most prominent of neo-Confucian scholars during the Song dynasty in China; stressed importance of applying philosophical principles to everyday life and action | 2 | |
| 5416630349 | Sui | a dynasty that ruled in China ad 581-618 and reunified the country. | 3 | |
| 5416630350 | Tang | a dynasty ruling China 618-c. 906, a period noted for territorial conquest and great wealth and regarded as the golden age of Chinese poetry and art. | 4 | |
| 5416631007 | Song | the imperial dynasty of China from 960 to 1279; noted for art and literature and philosophy | 5 | |
| 5416631008 | Bushido | "the way of the warrior"; Japanese word for the Samurai life ; Samurai moral code was based on loyalty, chivalry, martial arts, and honor until the death | 6 | |
| 5416632143 | Grand Canal | The 1,100-mile (1,700-kilometer) waterway linking the Yellow and the Yangzi Rivers. It was begun in the Han period and completed during the Sui Empire. | 7 | |
| 5416632144 | Civil service exams | Government jobs were given to people who scored the highest, not based on social status. Can give the power to move up in social class | 8 | |
| 5416632917 | Gun powder | created in China and spread by the Mongols | 9 | |
| 5416632918 | "flying cash" | There was so much trade going on in Tang and Song China that they ran out of coins. Block stamps made it possible | 10 | |
| 5416634834 | Neo-Confucianism | term that describes the resurgence of Confucianism and the influence of Confucian scholars during the Tang Dynasty; a unification of Daoist or Buddhist metaphysics with Confucian pragmatism | 11 | |
| 5416638121 | The Tale of Genji | Written by Lady Murasaki, first novel in any language, relates life history of prominent and amorous son of the Japanese emperor, evidence for the mannered style of Japanese society | 12 | |
| 5416639795 | Kamakura & Muromachi | "Japans medieval age" | 13 | |
| 5416641029 | Samurai | Class of warriors in feudal Japan who pledged loyalty to a noble in return for land. | 14 | |
| 5416642355 | South pointing needle | Compass, Chinese invention | 15 | |
| 5416643121 | "Middle Kingdom" | A reference to China, reflecting the traditional Chinese view of China as the center of the known universe. | 16 | |
| 5416643122 | Daimyo | A Japanese feudal lord who commanded a private army of samurai; warlord but not as powerful as a shogun. | 17 | |
| 5416644184 | Equal-field system | The Tang plan to avoid the concentration of land in the hands of the wealthy | 18 | |
| 5416644996 | fast-ripening rice | The most important new crop introduced into China during the Tang and Song periods was | 19 | |
| 5416644997 | Block-printing | Made it possible for popular works to be widely available by the late ninth century | 20 | |
| 5416645591 | Foot binding | Practice in Chinese society to mutilate women's feet in order to make them smaller; produced pain and restricted women's movement; made it easier to confine women to the household. | 21 | |
| 5416645592 | Nam Viet | A Vietnamese Kingdom Conquered by the Chinese. | 22 | |
| 5416645606 | Shogun | In feudal Japan, a noble similar to a duke. They were the military commanders and the actual rulers of Japan for many centuries while the Emperor was a powerless spiritual figure. | 23 | |
| 5416647184 | Seppuku | form of ceremonial suicide of defeated or disloyal samurai to avoid dishonor | 24 | |
| 5416649445 | Temujin | Genghis Khan's real name | 25 | |
| 5416649446 | Genghis Khan | A Mongolian general and emperor of the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, known for his military leadership and great cruelty. He conquered vast portions of northern China and southwestern Asia. | 26 | |
| 5416650370 | 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 | |
| 5416651323 | Khubilai Khan | Reigned in China after establishing the Yuan Dynasty; he actively promoted Buddhism; descendant of Chinggis Khan. | 28 | |
| 5416651324 | Tamerlane | A "second Genghis Khan" who united Mongols and led them in a series of conquests. His enemies called him "Prince of Destruction"; he subdued Asia, Persia, Mesopotamia and India. Samarkland. | 29 | |
| 5416653032 | Mehmed II (the conqueror) | Sultan of Ottoman empire. renamed constantinople to istanbul | 30 | |
| 5418760375 | Khan | A Mongol ruler | 31 | |
| 5418762491 | Battle of Manzikert | Seljuk Turk victory in 1071 over Byzantium; resulted in loss of the empire's rich Anatolian territory. | 32 | |
| 5418763349 | ilkhanate | Mongol state that ruled Persia after abolition of the Abbasid empire in the thirteenth century | 33 | |
| 5418763350 | Changatai | The Chagatai Khanate was a Mongol, and later linguistically Turkicized, khanate that comprised the lands ruled by Chagatai Khan, second son of the Great Khan Genghis Khan, and his descendents and successors. Initially it was considered a part of the Mongol Empire, but it later became fully independent | 34 | |
| 5418764563 | Golden Horde | Mongol khanate founded by Genghis Khan's grandson Batu. It was based in southern Russia and quickly adopted both the Turkic language and Islam. Also known as the Kipchak Horde. | 35 | |
| 5418764564 | Great Khan | The main successor of Genghis Khan, direct ruler of all Mongol lands in east Asia and overlord of all other Mongol realms (most prosperous khan) | 36 | |
| 5418765521 | Ilkhanate of Persia | Mongols in Persia, Khubilai Khan's brother, topple Abbasid. Persians still administered | 37 | |
| 5418766573 | Yuan Dynasty | 1271-1368 CE. Established when the Mongols conquered the Chinese Song Dynasty. Mongol reign short-lived, ending when the Mongols were driven from China in the 1300s. | 38 | |
| 5418766574 | Kamikaze | Divine wind | 39 | |
| 5418766959 | Bubonic Plague | Called Black Death, disease brought to Europe from the Mongols during the Middle Ages. It killed 1/3 of the population and helps end Feudalism. Rats, fleas. | 40 |
