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| 237619664 | Taika Reforms | Attempt to remake Japanese monarch into an absolute Chinese style emperor; included attempts to create professional bureaucracy and peasant conscript army. | 0 | |
| 237619665 | The Tale of Genjii | Written by Lady Muraski; 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 | |
| 237619666 | Fujiwara | Japanese aristocratic family in mid-9th century; exercised exceptional influence over imperial affairs; aided in decline of imperial power. | 2 | |
| 237619667 | 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 | |
| 237619668 | Samurai | Mounted troops of Japanese warrior leaders; loyal to local lords, not the emperors. | 4 | |
| 237619669 | Sepukku | Ritual suicide or disembowelment in Japan; commonly known in West as hara-kiri; demonstrated courage and a means to restore family honor. | 5 | |
| 237619670 | Taira | Powerful Japanese family in 11th and 12th centuries; competed with Minamoto family; defeated after Gempei Wars. | 6 | |
| 237619671 | Minamoto | Defeated the rival Taira family in Gempei Wars and established military government in 12th-century Japan. | 7 | |
| 237619672 | Gempei Wars | Waged for five years from 1180, on Honshu between Taira and Minamoto families; resulted in destruction of Taira. | 8 | |
| 237619673 | 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 | |
| 237619674 | Shoguns | Military leaders of the bakufu (military governments in Japan). | 10 | |
| 237619675 | Hojo | Warrior family closely allied with Minamoto; dominated Kamakura regime and manipulated Minamoto rulers who claimed to rule in name of Japanese emperor at Kyoto. | 11 | |
| 237619676 | Ashikaga Takuaji | Member of the Minamoto family; overthrew the Kamakura regime and established the Ashikaga Shogunate from 1336-1573; drove emperor from Kyoto to Yoshino. | 12 | |
| 237619677 | Ashikaga Shogunate | Replaced the Kamakura regime in Japan; ruled from 1336-1573; destroyed rival Yoshino center of imperial authority. | 13 | |
| 237619678 | Daimyos | Warlord rulers of 300 small states following civil war and disruption of Ashikaga Shogunate; holdings consolidated into unified and bounded mini-states. | 14 | |
| 237619679 | Choson | Earliest Korean kingdom; conquered by Han emperor in 109 B.C.E. | 15 | |
| 237619680 | Koguryo | Tribal people of northern Korea; established an independent kingdom in the northern half of the peninsula in 37 B.C.E.; adopted cultural sinification. | 16 | |
| 237619681 | Silla | Independent Korean kingdom in southeastern part of peninsula; defeated Koguryo along with their Chinese Tan allies; submitted as a vassal of the Tang emperor and agreed to tribute payment; ruled united Korea by 668. | 17 | |
| 237619682 | Paekche | Independent Korean kingdom in southeastern part of peninsula; defeated by rival Silla kingdom and its Chines Tang allies in 7th century. | 18 | |
| 237619683 | Sinification | Extensive adaptation of Chines culture in other regions; typical of Korean and Japan, less typical of Vietnam. | 19 | |
| 237619684 | Khmers | Indianized rivals of the Vietnamized; moved into Mekong river delta region at time of Vietnamese drive to the south. | 20 | |
| 237619685 | 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 | |
| 237619686 | Chams | Indianized rivals of the Vietnamese; driven into the highlands by the successful Vietnamese drive to the south. | 22 | |
| 237619687 | 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 | |
| 237619688 | Trinh | Dynasty that ruled in north Vietnam at Hanoi, 1533-1772; rivals of Nguyen family in south. | 24 |
