Ap World history chapter 13 terms
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| 38684424 | Taika reforms | Attempt to remake Japanese monarch into an absolute Chinese-style emperor; included attempts to create professional bureaucracy and peasant conscript army. | 0 | |
| 38684425 | 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 mannered style of Japanese society. | 1 | |
| 38684426 | Fujiwara | Japanese aristocratic family in mid-9th century; exercised exceptional influence over imperial affairs; aided in decline of imperial power. | 2 | |
| 38684427 | Bushi | Regional warrior leaders in Japan; ruled small kingdoms from fortresses; administered the law, supervised public works projects, and collected revenues; built up private armies | 3 | |
| 38684428 | Samurai | Mounted troops of Japanese warrior leaders (bushi); loyal to local lords, not the emperor | 4 | |
| 38687809 | Seppuku | Ritual suicide or disembowelment in Japan; commonly known in West as hara-kiri; demonstrated courage and a means to restore family honor. | 5 | |
| 38687810 | Taira | Powerful Japanese family in 11th and 12th centuries; competed with the Minamota family; defeated after the Gempei Wars. | 6 | |
| 38687811 | Minamoto | Defeated the rival Taira family in Gempei Wars and established military government (bakufu) in 12th century Japan | 7 | |
| 38687812 | Gempei Wars | Waged for five years from 1180, on Honshu between Taira and Minamoto families; resulted in destruction of Taira. | 8 | |
| 38687813 | Bakufu | Military government established by the Minamoto following the Gempei Wars; centered at Kamakura; retained emperor, but real power resided in military government and samurai | 9 | |
| 38687814 | Shoguns | Military leaders of the bakufu (military government in 12th-century Japan). | 10 | |
| 38687815 | Hojo | Warrior family closely allied with the Minamoto; dominated Kamakura regime and manipulated Minamota rulers who claimed to rule in name of the Japanese Emperor at Kyoto. | 11 | |
| 38687816 | Ashikaga Takuaji | Member of the Minamota family; overthrew the Kamakuro regime and established the Ashikaga Shogunate from 1336-1573; drove emperor from Kyoto to Yoshino. | 12 | |
| 38687817 | Ashikaga Shogunate | Replaced the Kamakura regime in Japan; ruled from 1336 to 1573; destroyed rival Yoshino center of impe3rial authority. | 13 | |
| 38690306 | Daimyos | Warlord rulers of 300 small states following civil war and disruption of the Ashikaga Shogunate; holdings consolidated into unified and bounded ministates | 14 | |
| 38690307 | Choson | Earlist Korean kingdom; conquered by Han emperor in 109 BCE | 15 | |
| 38690308 | Koguryo | Tribal people of northern Korea; established an independent kingdom in the northern half of the peninsula; adopted cultural Sinification. | 16 | |
| 38690309 | Silla | Independent Korean kingdom in southeastern part of peninsula; defeated Koguryo along with their Chinese Tang allies; submitted as a vassal of the Tang emperor and agreed to tribute payment; ruled united Korea by 668. | 17 | |
| 38690310 | Paekche | Independent Korean kingdom in southeastern part of peninsula; defeated by rival Silla kingdom and its Chinese Tang allies in 7th century. | 18 | |
| 38690311 | Sinification | Extensive adaptation of Chinese culture in other regions; typical of Korea and Japan, less typical of Vietnam. | 19 | |
| 38690312 | Khmers | Indianized rivals of the Vietnamese; moved into the Mekong River delta region at the time of Vietnamese drive to the south. | 20 | |
| 38690313 | Trung Sisters | Leaders of one of the frequent peasant rebellions in Vietnam against Chinese rule; revolt broke out in 39 c.e.; demonstrates importance of Vietnamese women in indigenous society. | 21 | |
| 38690314 | Chams | Indianized rivals of the Vietnamese; driven into the highlands by the successful Vietnamese drive to the south. | 22 | |
| 38690315 | Nguyen | Rival Vietnamese dynasty that arose in southern Vietnam to challenge traditional dynasty of Trinh in north at Hanoi; kingdom centered on Red and Mekong rivers; capital at Hue. | 23 | |
| 38690316 | Trinh | Dynasty that ruled in North Vietnam at Hanoi, 1533- 1772; rivals of the Nguyen family in the south. | 24 |
