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| 1041503310 | Taika reforms | Attempt to remake the Japanese monarch into an absolutist Chinese-style emperor and the Han-Tang era; included attempts to create professional bureaucracy and peasant conscript army. Began around 646. | 0 | |
| 1041503311 | Tale of Genji | Written by Lady Murasaki; first novel in any language; evidence for mannered style of Japanese society. Described the imperial court at Heian. | 1 | |
| 1041503312 | Fujiwara | Mid-9th-century Japanese aristocratic family; exercised exceptional influence over imperial affairs; aided in decline of imperial power. | 2 | |
| 1041503313 | 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. During the period of the Bushi, combat often depended on man-to-man struggles between champions typical of heroic warfare. | 3 | |
| 1041503314 | Samurai | Mounted troops of the bushi; loyal to local lords, not the emperor. | 4 | |
| 1041503315 | Seppuku | Ritual suicide in Japan; also known as hari-kiri; demonstrated courage and was a means to restore family honor. | 5 | |
| 1041503316 | Gempei wars | Waged for five years from 1180 on Honshu between the Taira and Minamoto families; ended in destruction of the Taira. Signaled the beginning of the Japanese feudal age. | 6 | |
| 1041503317 | Bakufu | Military government established by the Minamoto after the Gempei Wars; centered at Kamakura; retained emperor, but real power resided in military government and samurai. | 7 | |
| 1041503318 | Shoguns | Military leaders of the bakufu. | 8 | |
| 1041503320 | Ashikaga Shogunate | holdings consolidated into unified and bounded ministates. | 9 | |
| 1041503321 | Choson | Earliest Korean kingdom; conquered by the Han in 109 B.C.E. | 10 | |
| 1041503322 | Sinification | Extensive adaptation of Chinese culture in other regions. Japan began the process in the 5th and 6th centuries CE. | 11 | |
| 1041503323 | Silla | Korean kingdom in the Southeast; became a vassal of the Tang and paid tribute; ruled Korea from 668. | 12 | |
| 1041503324 | Trung sisters | Leaders of a rebellion in Vietnam against Chinese rule in 39 C.E.; demonstrates importance of women in Vietnamese society. | 13 | |
| 1041503325 | Nguyen | Southern Vietnamese dynasty with capital at Hue that challenged northern Trinh dynasty with center at Hanoi. | 14 | |
| 1041503326 | Kami | Nature spirits of Japan. | 15 | |
| 1041503327 | Fujiwara | Japanese aristocratic family in mid-9th century; exercised exceptional influence over imperial affairs; aided in decline of imperial power. | 16 | |
| 1041503328 | Taira | Powerful Japanese family in 11th and 12th centuries; competed with Minamoto family; defeated after Gempei Wars. | 17 | |
| 1041503329 | Minamoto | Defeated the rival Taira family in Gempei Wars and established military government in 12th-century Japan. | 18 | |
| 1041503330 | Tribute System | System in which people surrounding China sent emissaries who offered tribute to the Chinese emperor and acknowledged the superiority of the emperor and China. | 19 | |
| 1041503331 | Trinh | Dynasty that ruled in north Vietnam at Hanoi, 1533 to 1772; rivals of Nguyen family in South. | 20 | |
| 1041503332 | Hue | Capital of the Nguyen Southern Vietnamese Dynasty | 21 |
