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| 14864561601 | use of Confucianism | built around relationships and obedience to superiors (5 principles) | 0 | |
| 14866710382 | political structure of China | strong centralized bureaucracy (begins with Qin and Han dynasties) | 1 | |
| 14867089109 | mandate of heaven | the belief that the Chinese king's right to rule came from the gods (how rulers claimed legitimacy) | 2 | |
| 14867139002 | Heian Japan | period in which Japanese emperors lost their true power and became figureheads; time of centralization; Chinese culture was prevailed over Japanese (particularly literary and artistic culture) | 3 | |
| 14867162847 | spread of Buddhism | founded in India; entered China via the Silk Road | 4 | |
| 14867198411 | Theravada Buddhism | Buddhist sect that focuses on the wisdom of the Buddha (psychological and individualistic); not practiced as much in China; is a philosophy | 5 | |
| 14867207091 | Mahayana Buddhism | Buddhist sect that focuses on the compassion of the Buddha (reaching enlightenment); broader and practiced more in China; makes Buddha God | 6 | |
| 14867242569 | Tibetan Buddhism | Mongols were particularly attracted to this form of Buddhism | 7 | |
| 14867323840 | technological productions of China | porcelain, iron, printing, gunpowder, compass, paper, silk | 8 | |
| 14867387462 | population surge (China) | helped by more agricultural output and Grand Canal (transported goods) | 9 | |
| 14867412153 | Champa Rice | a quick-maturing, drought resistant rice from Vietnam (helped population of China grow) | 10 | |
| 14867426937 | industrial production in China | iron and steel; fueled almost entirely by coal | 11 | |
| 14867437421 | Islam | - first took hold in Arabian Peninsula - founder is Muhammad - everyone is seen as equals (spiritually) | 12 | |
| 14867588470 | Abbasid Caliphate | - last Abbasid caliph killed when Mongols sacked Baghdad in 1258 - fragmented into new Islamic states (most were Turkic) | 13 | |
| 14867619980 | Delhi Sultanate | - the first Islamic government established within India in 1206 - controlled a small area of northern India and was centered in Delhi | 14 | |
| 14915391144 | Muslim rule continued to spread through military expansion | encompassed all or parts of Egyptian, Roman/Byzantine, Persian, Mesopotamian, and Indian civilizations (Arab armies engaged the Byzantine and Persian Sassanid empires after Muhammad's death) | 15 | |
| 14915394797 | Islam expansion through trade | - goods, technologies, food, and ideas circulated widely - Muslim merchants were prominent players in all major Afro-Eurasian trade routes (of third-wave era) | 16 | |
| 14915399449 | Sufis | holy mystics that embrace a "popular Islam" with Hindu overlap | 17 | |
| 14915402909 | advances in math (Nasir al-Din al-Tusi) | founder of Maragha observatory in Persia; mapped the motion of the stars and planets | 18 | |
| 14915402910 | advances in medicine (Dar al-Islam) | Arab physicians such as al-Razi and Ibn Sina accurately diagnosed many diseases such as hay fever, measles, smallpox, rabies, etc. | 19 | |
| 14915527895 | House of Wisdom in Abbasid Baghdad | established in 830 by Abbasid caliph; an academic center for research and translation | 20 | |
| 14915547968 | Srivijaya Empire | controlled the Strait of Malacca (because of trade); made money off of gold, spices, and taxes levied on ships | 21 | |
| 14915711018 | Khmer Empire | exported exotic forest products, and received Chinese and Indian handicrafts, and had a community of Chinese merchants | 22 | |
| 14915777399 | Incan Empire | - had terrance farming - centralized government - road system and bridges - Quipu (writing) - Mita labor (mandatory public service, was a form of tribute to Incan government in form of labor) | 23 | |
| 14915815421 | Mexica (Aztec) Empire | - were wandering peoples - capital: Tenochtitlan - had temples, causeways - had chinampas: raised beds in swamplands - loose political organization, self-governing territories that paid tribute to Aztec ruler | 24 | |
| 14915867397 | Cahokia | - Mississippian settlement - built mounds (were religious centers of city) - no writing - canoes on rivers - rigid class structure | 25 | |
| 14915892827 | Mali | - founded by Sundita of Malinke people - depended on agriculture/trans-Saharan trade like Ghana - rulers fostered spread of Islam | 26 | |
| 14915922402 | Ethiopia (Axum) | - CHRISTIAN Coptic kingdom surrounded by Muslims - rulers legitimated their position by tracing ancestry to Jesus - attempted to make "New Jerusalem" by linking 12 churches underground | 27 | |
| 14916035033 | Song Dynasty | - built on Sui foundations of renewed unity - "golden age" of arts and literature - selected officials based on merit (meritocracy) - Civil Service Exam becomes even more important - improved agricultural production - technological productions: iron, porcelain, printing, gunpowder, compass, paper, SILK | 28 | |
| 14916140482 | Filial Piety | respect shown by children for their parents and elders | 29 | |
| 14916146828 | Neo-Confucianism | a philosophy that emerged in Song-dynasty China; it revived Confucian thinking while adding in Buddhist and Daoist elements. | 30 | |
| 14916167963 | Feudalism | a political system in which nobles are granted the use of lands that legally belong to their king, in exchange for their loyalty, military service, and protection of the people who live on the land | 31 | |
| 14916189041 | serfdom | a type of labor commonly used in feudal systems in which the laborers work the land in return for protection but they are bound to the land and are not allowed to leave or to pursue a new occupation | 32 |
