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| 15777526873 | Sui dynasty | Short dynasty between Han and Tang. Built Grand Canal, strengthened government, and introduced Buddhism to China. |  | 0 |
| 15777526874 | Tang dynasty | China expands to Vietnam, Imperial examination perfected. New technologies (paper money, gunpowder, junks, etc...) through silk road. (618 - 907 C.E.) |  | 1 |
| 15777526875 | Song dynasty | Million people there. Foot binding, magnetic compass, navy, and traded with India and Persia. (960 - 1279 C.E.) |  | 2 |
| 15777526876 | Hangzhou | Capitol of later Song Dynasty | 3 | |
| 15777526877 | gunpowder | an explosive consisting of a powdered mixture of saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal. | 4 | |
| 15777526878 | economic revolution | Rapid population growth, economic speculation, increase in industrial production and innovations (Song dynasty). Made China the richest, most skilled, and most populous country on Earth. | 5 | |
| 15777526879 | foot binding | practice in Chinese society to mutilate women's feet to make them smaller. |  | 6 |
| 15777526880 | tribute system | Chinese method of dealing with foreign lands and people that assumed subordination of all non-chinese authorities. | 7 | |
| 15777526881 | Xiongnu | major nomadic confederation that was established in 200 BCE and eventually reached from Manchuria to Central Asia. |  | 8 |
| 15777526882 | Khitan | a nomadic people from Northeast Asia who from the 4th century inhabited an area corresponding to parts of modern Mongolia, Northeast China and the Russian Far East. | 9 | |
| 15777526883 | Jurchen | a Tungusic people who inhabited the region of Manchuria until around 1630, at which point they were reformed and combined with their neighbors as the Manchu. | 10 | |
| 15777526884 | Silla dynasty | First ruling dynasty to bring a measure of political unity to Korean Peninsula. Allowed China to bring unity to the Korean peninsula | 11 | |
| 15777526885 | hangul | phonetic alphabet in Korea |  | 12 |
| 15777526886 | chu nom | a logographic writing system formerly used to write the Vietnamese language. | 13 | |
| 15777526887 | Shotoku Taishi | Japanese statesman who launched the drive to make Japan into centralized bureaucratic state modeled on China. |  | 14 |
| 15777526888 | bushido | "way of the warrior" | 15 | |
| 15777526889 | Izumi Shikibu | Mid Heian period Japanese poet. Wrote about political posturing and love affairs of aristocratic men and women. | 16 | |
| 15777526890 | Chinese Buddhism | Entered China through cultural accommodations. Useful to helping nomadic rulers govern northern China. | 17 | |
| 15777526891 | Emperor Wendi | Sui Emperor who patronized Buddhism. Built monasteries at the base of China's 5 sacred mountains. |  | 18 |
