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| 5547865138 | Sui Dynasty | This dynasty emerged in China from 589-618, reunifying it by building canals that finally connected the north and south after 300 years of fragmentation. | 0 | |
| 5547865137 | Tang Dynasty | This dynasty (618-907), along with the Song Dynasty, followed the Sui and revived art, literature, and Confucian ideals, although it had more gender equality than its counterpart. | 1 | |
| 5547865139 | Song Dynasty | This dynasty (960-1279) was part of the "golden age" in China along with the Tang Dynasty, but had a patriarchy that promoted things such as foot binding to force women into submission. | 2 | |
| 5547865145 | Hangzhou | This was the capital city of China beginning in the Sui Dynasty because of its specialized ships and restaurants and canals that allowed the population to be supplied easily. | 3 | |
| 5547878619 | gunpowder | This was invented during the Tang Dynasty as an alchemic byproduct to the search for eternal life. It became more heavily weaponized during the Song Dynasty era. | 4 | |
| 5547865149 | economic revolution | Tang and Song Dynasty China experienced this, shown by the large increase in population in South China. The main reason for this population growth was an increased agricultural production due to a new strain of rice being adopted from Vietnam. | 5 | |
| 5547865147 | foot binding | This was a technique developed during the Song Dynasty that consisted of binding women's feet, breaking their bones, in order to "put women in their place" and assert male dominance. | 6 | |
| 5547865136 | tribute system | This was a series of practices in which non-Chinese authorities honored Chinese authorities by giving kowtows and acknowledging their subordination. | 7 | |
| 5547865135 | Xiongnu | This was a powerful nomadic empire that raided China and was placated when China agreed to recognize it as a political equal and give it annual "gifts", or reverse tribute. | 8 | |
| 5547865142 | Khitan | This was a group of nomadic peoples that came in after the fall of the Tang Dynasty (907-1125) and established states in northern China. Their state demanded goods from Song Dynasty China which was to the south, and some of these goods were used to participate in IO trade. | 9 | |
| 5547865143 | Jurchen | They were a group of nomadic peoples who went furthest in adopting Chinese ways, by wearing their clothing, learning their language, and intermarrying. | 10 | |
| 5547865140 | Silla Dynasty (Korea) | This was a dynasty in Korea that lasted from 688-900 AD. Korea was a part of China's tribute system and adopted Confucian ideology like the patriarchy, but it had political independence and a unique culture. | 11 | |
| 5547865146 | Hangul | Korean phonetic alphabet that was created in the 1400s. This new alphabet system gave Korea more cultural independence from China, though some elite males continued to use the Chinese script. | 12 | |
| 5547865150 | chu nom | A variation of Chinese writing developed by the Vietnamese that gave Vietnam their own literature and was used by most educated women for writing. | 13 | |
| 5547865141 | Shotoku Taishi | A major Japanese aristocrat that caused Japan to adopt a Chinese style political system. He launched a series of expeditions into China where Japanese scholars, monks and artists would go and bring what they learned back to China. | 14 | |
| 5547865152 | bushido | A set of values used by Japanese samurai, also known as the "way of the warrior". This included valuing skill in martial arts, bravery, loyalty, honor, etc... | 15 | |
| 5547865144 | Izumi Shibuki | She was an influential woman both in Japanese imperial court, having love affairs with the prince and later his brother, as well as in poetry, which has given insight into her love live and spiritual pursuits. | 16 | |
| 5547865151 | Chinese Buddhism | The term for Buddhism, usually Mahayana, beginning to take hold in China after the collapse of the Han dynasty and gaining state support during the Sui dynasty, which caused it to flourish even more. Despite this, there were many people in China who viewed Buddhism as foreign and barbaric and ~800 CE, the religion began to lose support from the gov. | 17 | |
| 5547865148 | Emperor Wendi | He was a Sui emperor (581-604 CE) that showed state support for Buddhism constructing monasteries at the bottom of China's sacred mountains and using the belief sys to justify war. This support led to monasteries gaining lots of wealth, resentment of which caused Buddhism to lose support. | 18 |
