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| 11389794150 | Sui Dynasty | The short dynasty between the Han and the Tang; built the Grand Canal, strengthened the government, and introduced Buddhism to China | 0 | |
| 11389794151 | Tang Dynasty | 618-907 CE The Chinese dynasty that was much like the Han, who used Confucianism. This dynasty had the equal-field system, a bureaucracy based on merit, and a Confucian education system | 1 | |
| 11389794152 | Song Dynasty | 960 - 1279 AD this dynasty was started by Tai Zu; by 1000, a million people were living there; foot binding; had a magnetic compass; had a navy; traded with India and Persia (brought pepper and cotton); first to have paper money, explosive gun powder; *landscape black and white paintings | 2 | |
| 11389794153 | Hangzhou | China's capital city during the Song dynasty, with a population of more than a million people | 3 | |
| 11389794154 | Economic Revolution | A major economic quickening that took place in China under the Song dynasty marked by rapid population growth, urbanization, economic specialization, the development of an immense network of internal waterways, and a great increase in industrial production and innovation | 4 | |
| 11389794155 | Foot Binding | a practice in Chinese society to wrap women's feet tightly, causing bones to break, in order to make them smaller significance: demonstrated Chinese patriarchal society | 5 | |
| 11389794156 | Tribute System | Chinese method of dealing with foreign lands and people's that assumed the subordination of all non-Chinese authorities and required the payment of tribute to the Chinese emperor | 6 | |
| 11389794157 | Xiongnu | Major confederacy that was established around 200 bce. and eventually reached from Manchuria to Central Asia | 7 | |
| 11389794158 | Khitan/Jurchen People | A nomadic people who established a state that included parts of northern China 901-1125 Khitan: Nomadic peoples of Manchuria; militarily superior to Song dynasty China but influenced by Chinese culture significance: brought the end of the Song dynasty Jurchen Jurchen: nomadic people that conquered Khitan, overran northern China, and captured the Song capital | 8 | |
| 11389794159 | Silla Dynasty (Korea) | The first ruling dynasty to bring a measure of political unity to the Korean peninsula 688-900CE | 9 | |
| 11389794160 | Hangul | A phonetic alphabet created in Korea in the fifteenth century | 10 | |
| 11389794161 | Chu nom | A variation of Chinese writing developed in Vietnam that became the basis for an independent national literature | 11 | |
| 11389794162 | Shotoku Taishi | Japanese statesman 572-622CE who launched the drive to make Japan into a centralized bureaucratic state modeled on China; he is best known for the Seventeen Article Constitution | 12 | |
| 11389794163 | Bushido | Traditional code of the Japanese samurai which stressed courage and loyalty and self-discipline and simple living "the way of the warrior;" bravery, loyalty, endurance, honor, preference from death over surrender | 13 | |
| 11389794164 | Izumi Shikibu | illustrious female poet from Japan | 14 | |
| 11389794165 | Chinese Buddhism | China's only large-scale cultural borrowing before the 20th century. Was popular between 300-800ce. Suffered persecution during the 9th century | 15 | |
| 11389794166 | Emperor Wendi | Member of prominent northern Chinese family during period of Six Dynasties; proclaimed himself emperor; supported by nomadic peoples of northern China; established Sui dynasty | 16 | |
| 11389798675 | Gunpowder | Invented within China during the 9th century, this substance was became the dominate military technology used to expand European and Asian empires by the 15th century. | 17 |
