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Unit Three Part Three

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11113114836Sui DynastyA short dynasty between Han and Tang.0
11113114837Tang DynastyA dynasty often referred to as "China's Golden Age". (618 CE - 907 CE)1
11113114838Song Dynasty(960 CE - 1279 CE) Started by Tai Zu.2
11113114839HangzhouCapital of later Song Dynasty.3
11113114840Economic RevolutionRapid population growth, economic speculation, increase in industrial production and innovations (Song dynasty).4
11113114841Foot BindingPractice in Chinese society to mutilate women's feet to make them smaller.5
11113114842Tribute SystemChinese method of dealing with foreign lands and people that assumed subordination of all non-chinese authorities. They required all foreigners wanting access to China to pay tribute.6
11113114843Khitan/Jurchen PeopleNomadic people who established a state that included parts of Northern China.7
11113114844Silla Dynasty (Korea)First ruling dynasty to bring a measure of political unity to Korean Peninsula.8
11113114845HangulPhonetic alphabet in Korea (14th century).9
11113114846Shotoku TaishiJapanese statesman who launched the drive to make Japan into centralized bureaucratic state modeled on China.10
11113114847Bushido"Way of the Warrior".11
11113114848Chinese BuddhismEntered China through cultural accommodations.12
11113114849Emperor WendiSui Emperor who patronized Buddhism.13
11113114850Chu nomThe writing system of Vietnam14
11113114851Izumi ShikibuJapanese poet who had an affair with the two sons of the emperor15
11113114852XiongnuA confederation of nomadic peoples living beyond the northwest frontier of ancient China. HAN Dynasty16
11113114853GunpowderAn invention in the Tang and Song dynasty that changed history.17

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