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| 5920257989 | Shadow Privilege | Privilege extended to sons and relatives of the Song Dynasty officials, allowing them to take a less competitive series of examinations | 0 | |
| 5920272397 | Advanced Scholar | The highest degree given by the government to top-scoring examination candidates | 1 | |
| 5920281358 | Neo-Confucianism | Teachings of the thinker Zhu Xi (1130-1200) and his followers that urged students to apprehend the principle in physiological stuff, or qi | 2 | |
| 5920305505 | Shogun | "General" in Japanese; all-powerful military leader governing on behalf of the emperor, who lived in Kyoto but exercised little actual power | 3 | |
| 5920327255 | gunpowder | Mixture of potassium nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal used by the Chinese for fireworks and explosive weapons | 4 | |
| 5920340489 | Li Qingzhao | (ca. 1084) Famous woman poet of the song dynasty who wrote a first-person memoir about her marriage to Zhao Mingcheng | 5 | |
| 5939043453 | Zhu Xi | (1130-1200) the leading thinker of Neo-Confucianism, who wrote a commentary on "The Four Books" | 6 | |
| 5939054409 | Ly Dynasty | (1009-1224) The independent rulers of Vietnam who adopted the Tang Code in 1042 | 7 | |
| 5939060266 | New Policies | Reforms, implemented between 1069 and 1086, that included paying all government salaries in money and extending low-interest loans to poor peasants | 8 | |
| 5939070565 | Paper Money | Money that could be used instead of bronze coins; issued around 1000 by the Song dynasty, the first government in world history to do so | 9 | |
| 5939080579 | steel-needle compass | A navigated instrument by floating a magnetized steel needle in water: since the magnetized needle pointed north, sailors knew where to go. | 10 | |
| 5939102498 | Zen Buddhism | A Japanese school of Buddhism that emphasized attaining enlightenment through meditations. | 11 | |
| 5939109621 | Song Dynasty | (960-1276) Dynasty that ruled a united China from the northern capital of Kaifeng from 960-1126 and only the southern half of the empire from 1127-1276. | 12 | |
| 5939120678 | Zhao Rugua | (fl. 1225) Author of "The Description of Foreign Peoples", a compendium of information about China'a closest trading partners in East Asia and distant places such as the east coasts of Africa and Spain. | 13 | |
| 5939136560 | Movable Type | Printing method first developed in China after 1040 by printers who arranged reusable individual characters on the page. | 14 | |
| 5939145151 | Koryo Dynasty | (936-1392) Dynasty that gave its name to the modern country of Korea, whose founder adopted Tang governing models. | 15 | |
| 5939154811 | Jin Dynasty | (1115-1234) Dynasty of the Jurchen people of Manchuria that ruled north China from 1127-1234, when the Mongols defeated their armies. | 16 |
