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| 11363899820 | Sui Dynasty | (589-618 CE) The Chinese dynasty that was like the Qin Dynasty in imposing tight political discipline; this dynasty built the Grand Canal which helped transport the rice in the south to the north. | 0 | |
| 11363902815 | Tang Dynasty | dynasty often referred to as China's Golden age that reigned during 618 - 907 AD; China expands from Vietnam to Manchuria | 1 | |
| 11363904744 | Song Dynasty | (960-1279 CE) The Chinese dynasty that placed much more emphasis on civil administration, industry, education, and arts other than military. | 2 | |
| 11363907614 | Hangzhou | China's capital during the Song dynasty, with a population of more than a million people. | 3 | |
| 11363909687 | 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. | 4 | |
| 11363912943 | Economic Revolution | A major economic quickening that took place in China under the Song dynasty (960-1279); 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. | 5 | |
| 11363915511 | Foot Binding | Practice in Chinese society to mutilate women's feet in order to make them smaller; produced pain and restricted women's movement; made it easier to confine women to the household. | 6 | |
| 11363918654 | tribute system | Chinese method of dealing with foreign lands and peoples that assumed the subordination of all non-Chinese authorities and required the payment of tribute—produce of value from their countries—to the Chinese emperor (although the Chinese gifts given in return were often much more valuable). | 7 | |
| 11363921622 | Xiongnu | nomadic raiders from the grasslands north of China during the reign of Han dynasty; emperor Wudi fought against them in the mid-100s BC | 8 | |
| 11363924654 | Khitan and Jurchen people | *Definition:* Nomadic people who established a state that included parts of Northern China. *Significance:* Was a nomadic group who "picked up the pieces" after collapse of Tang Dynasty. | 9 | |
| 11363928186 | Silla Dynasty | The dynasty in Korea that rallied to prevent Chinese domination in the seventh century CE. | 10 | |
| 11363933132 | Hangul | alphabet that uses symbols to represent the sounds of spoken Korean | 11 | |
| 11363933133 | chu nom | A variation of Chinese writing developed in Vietnam that became the basis for an independent national literature; "southern script." | 12 | |
| 11363935620 | Shotoku Taishi | Japanese statesman (572-622) who launched the drive to make Japan into a centralized bureaucratic state modeled on China; he is best known for the Seventeen Article Constitution, which lays out the principles of this reform. | 13 | |
| 11363939819 | Bushido | The Feudal Japanese code of honor among the warrior class. | 14 | |
| 11363942148 | Izumi Shikibu | Female growing up in the imperial court who caused controversy with her erotic poetry and affairs. | 15 | |
| 11363944672 | Chinese Buddhism | Buddhism was China's only large-scale cultural borrowing before the twentieth century; Buddhism entered China from India in the first and second centuries C.E. but only became popular in 300-800 C.E. through a series of cultural accommodations. At first supported by the state, Buddhism suffered persecution during the ninth century but continued to play a role in Chinese society. | 16 | |
| 11363947670 | Emperor Wendi | Sui emperor (r. 581-604) who particularly patronized Buddhism. | 17 |
