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| 3295224094 | Grand Canal | the 1,100 mile waterway linking the Yellow and Yangzi Rivers | 0 | |
| 3295229297 | Li Shimin | One of the founders and second emperor of the Tang Empire | 1 | |
| 3295236258 | Central Asia | region that Li Shimin led expansion into | 2 | |
| 3295238304 | Tang Empire | Empire unifying China and part of Central Asia, founded in 618 and ended in 907 | 3 | |
| 3295243127 | Chang'an | capital of the Tang Empire | 4 | |
| 3295250379 | tributary system | a system in which, from the time of the Han Empire, countries in East and Southeast Asia not under the direct control of empires based in China nevertheless acknowledged the superiority of the emperors in China in exchange for trading rights or strategic alliances | 5 | |
| 3295268300 | Song Empire | empire in central and southern China while the Liao people controlled the north (960-1126); empire in southern China while the Jin ruled the north; distinguished for advances in technology, medicine, astronomy, and mathematics | 6 | |
| 3295309866 | junk | a very large flat-bottomed sailing ship produced in Tang, Song, and Ming Empires, specially designed for long-distance commercial travel | 7 | |
| 3295322053 | gunpowder | a mixture of saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal, in various proportions. The formula, brought to China in the 400s or 500s, was first used to make fumigators to keep away insect pests and evil spirits; later used to make explosives and propel firearms | 8 | |
| 3295341355 | neo-Confucianism | term used to describe new approaches to understanding classic Confucian texts that became the basic ruling philosophy of China from the Song period to the twentieth century | 9 | |
| 3295359568 | Zen | Japanese word for a branch of Mahayana Buddhism based on highly disciplined meditation | 10 | |
| 3295373711 | movable type | type in which each individual character is cast on a separate piece of metal; allowed text to be rearranged and replaced woodblock printing | 11 | |
| 3295383419 | shamanism | the practice of identifying special individuals who will interact with the spirits from the benefit of the community | 12 | |
| 3295387217 | shamans | the individuals who would interact with the spirits | 13 | |
| 3295396491 | Koryo | Korean kingdom founded in 918 and destroyed in 1259; inspired the modern name of Korea and made superb printed editions of Buddhist texts | 14 | |
| 3295403950 | Mongols | people who invaded and took down the Koryo kingdom in 1259 | 15 | |
| 3295419994 | Fujiwara | aristocratic family that dominated the Japanese imperial court between the ninth and twelfth centuries | 16 | |
| 3295429990 | Kamakura Shogunate | the first of Japan's decentralized military governments | 17 | |
| 3295437234 | Champa rice | Quick maturing rice that can allow two harvests in one growing season. | 18 | |
| 3295444045 | Srivijaya | a state based on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, between the seventh and eleventh centuries CE. It amassed wealth and power by a combination of selective adaption of Indian technologies and concepts, control of the lucrative trade routes between India and China, and skillful showmanship and diplomacy in holding together a disparate realm of inland and coastal territories | 19 | |
| 3295468007 | Mahayana | "great vehicle"; sect of Buddhism that put their faith in bodhisattvas and saw the Buddha as being divine; predominant form of Buddhism in China | 20 | |
| 3295477299 | Wu Zhao | a woman who married into the imperial family, gained control of the government and declared herself emperor | 21 | |
| 3295483787 | footbinding | the process of forcing the toes under the foot toward the heel causing the foot to break and making it smaller; mainly done by elite women in the Song era | 22 | |
| 3295497177 | The Tale of Genji | a book written around the year 1000 that states that women should be educated but should not have a focus of their education on one particular subject | 23 | |
| 3295506624 | Murasaki Shikibu | noblewoman who wrote The Tale of Genji | 24 | |
| 3306066518 | Buddhism | under the leadership of the Tang rulers, the spread of (blank) was encouraged | 25 | |
| 3306075811 | tolerance | Mahayana Buddhism had (blank) for local customs | 26 | |
| 3306084364 | East and Southeast Asia | areas that became tributary states of China for trading rights or strategic alliances | 27 | |
| 3306087962 | Uighurs | serious challenge to the Tang on the western portion of China | 28 | |
| 3306095174 | urban crowding | consequence of China's population rising over 100 milllion | 29 | |
| 3306097971 | noble families | people who were given government offices in Korea, Japan and Vietnam | 30 | |
| 3306101276 | Kyoto | the capital of the Heian period of Japan | 31 | |
| 3306103453 | samurai | class that appeared in Japan during the Kamakura Shogunate | 32 | |
| 3306109263 | overcentralization | reason for Sui Empire's downfall | 33 | |
| 3306114021 | humans | neo-Confucians believed that (blank) are good and reasonable by nature | 34 | |
| 3306118373 | Korea | where movable type was first developed | 35 | |
| 3306124138 | Buddhism | the Chinese looked east and south for allies because the people of the north and west were oriented toward (blank) | 36 | |
| 3306130364 | literature | the combination of loneliness, free time, and writing encouraged Japanese women to produce (blank) | 37 |
