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| 11625455567 | Sui Dynasty | The short dynasty between the Han and the Tang; built the Grand Canal, strengthened the government, and introduced Buddhism to China | 0 | |
| 11625457657 | Tang Dynasty | Dynasty often referred to as China's Golden age that reigned during 618 - 907 AD; China expands from Vietnam to Manchuria | 1 | |
| 11625464039 | Song Dynasty | (960-1279 CE) The Chinese dynasty that placed much more emphasis on civil administration, industry, education, and arts other than military. | 2 | |
| 11625487432 | Hangzhou | Capital of Song Dynasty | 3 | |
| 11625502273 | 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. | 4 | |
| 11625508517 | 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. | 5 | |
| 11625523399 | tribute system | A system in which defeated peoples were forced to pay a tax in the form of goods and labor. This forced transfer of food, cloth, and other goods subsidized the development of large cities. An important component of the Aztec and Inca economies. | 6 | |
| 11625534566 | 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 | 7 | |
| 11625537276 | Khitan/Jurchen people | A nomadic people who established a state that included parts of northern China (907-1125). (pron. kee-tahn); A nomadic people who established a state that included parts of northern China (1115-1234). | 8 | |
| 11625541362 | Silla Dynasty | Korean dynasty that ruled from 668 to 935 | 9 | |
| 11625544703 | Hangul | Korean alphabet | 10 | |
| 11625546860 | chu nom | A style of writing adapted from China to Vietnam. It became the basis for the development of an independent national literature. | 11 | |
| 11625629141 | Shotoku Taishi | A Japanese prince who used Chinese ideas to set up a more centralized system of government in China | 12 | |
| 11625633297 | Bushido | "the way of the warrior" | 13 | |
| 11625647246 | Izumi Shikibu | Illustrious female poet from Japan | 14 | |
| 11625671410 | Chinese Buddhism | China's only large-scale cultural borrowing. Supported by state but then got persecuted. | 15 | |
| 11625683301 | Emperor Wendi | Sui emperor (r. 581-604) who particularly patronized Buddhism. | 16 | |
| 11625740593 | Nubian Christianity | Emerging in the fifth and sixth centuries in the several kingdoms of Nubia to the south of Egypt, this Christian church thrived for six hundred years but had largely disappeared by 1500 C.E. by which time most of the region's population practiced Islam. | 17 | |
| 11625908356 | Jesus Sutras | The product of Nestorian Christians living in China, these sutras articulate the Christian message using Buddhist and Daoist concepts. | 18 | |
| 11625913839 | Ethiopian Christianity | retained both traditional African and Christian beliefs | 19 | |
| 11625918070 | Byzantine Empire | Eastern half of the Roman Empire that survived the fall of the Western half. | 20 | |
| 11625920511 | Constantinople | Capital of the Byzantine Empire | 21 | |
| 11625924272 | Justinian | Byzantine emperor who held the eastern frontier of his empire against the Persians | 22 | |
| 11625931578 | Caesaropapism | A political-religious system in which the secular ruler is also head of the religious establishment, as in the Byzantine Empire. | 23 | |
| 11625935882 | Eastern Orthodox Church | Christian followers in the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine Empire); split from Roman Catholic Church and shaped life in eastern Europe and western Asia | 24 | |
| 11625942009 | Prince Vladimir of Kiev | He was the Russian prince who selected Greek Orthodoxy as the national religion. This added cultural bonds to the Byzantine Empire to the already existing commercial ties | 25 | |
| 11625964814 | Kievan Rus | first civilization in russia that was greatly influenced by the byzantine | 26 | |
| 11625991220 | Charlemagne | king of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor | 27 | |
| 11626002059 | Holy Roman Empire | An empire established in Europe in the 10th century A.D., originally consisting mainly of lands in what is now Germany and Italy | 28 | |
| 11626012784 | Western Christendom | Western European branch of Christianity that gradually defined itself as separate from Eastern Orthodoxy, with a major break in 1054 C.E. that has still not been healed. | 29 | |
| 11626047753 | Cecilia Penifader | An illiterate peasant woman (1297-1344) from the English village of Brigstock, whose life provides a window into the conditions of ordinary rural people even if her life was more independent and prosperous than most. | 30 | |
| 11626059503 | Pastoralism | A type of agricultural activity based on nomadic animal husbandry or the raising of livestock to provide food, clothing, and shelter. | 31 | |
| 11626067389 | Modun | Great ruler of the Xiongnu Empire who created a centralized and hierarchical political system | 32 | |
| 11626077503 | Turks | A member of the Turkish-speaking ethnic group in Turkey, or, formerly, in the Ottoman Empire | 33 | |
| 11626100064 | Almoravid Empire | An Islamic religious brotherhood that established an empire in North Africa and southern Spain in the 11th century A.D. | 34 | |
| 11626104307 | Chinggis Khan | Title meaning "universal ruler" that was given to the Mongol leader Temujin in 1206 after he united the Mongols. | 35 | |
| 11626120056 | The Mongol world war | Term used to describe half a century of military campaigns, massive killing, and empire building pursued by Chinggis Khan and his successors in Eurasia after 1209. | 36 | |
| 11626126227 | Yuan Dynasty China | Mongol dynasty that ruled China from 1271 to 1368; its name means "great beginnings." | 37 | |
| 11626131273 | Kubilai Khan | grandson of Chinggis Khan; commander of Mongol forces responsible for conquest of China; became khagan in 1260; established Sinicized Mongol Yuan dynasty in China in 1271 | 38 | |
| 11626163510 | Hulegu | Grandson of Chinggis Khan and ruler of Ilkhan khanate; captured and destroyed Abbasid Baghdad. | 39 | |
| 11626169118 | Khutulun | A Mongol princess whose exploits in battle and wrestling along with her choice of husbands provide insight into the relative freedom and influence of elite Mongol women in their societies | 40 | |
| 11626172825 | Golden Horde | a Mongolian army that swept over eastern Europe in the 13th century | 41 | |
| 11626178014 | Black Death | A deadly plague that swept through Europe between 1347 and 1351 | 42 |
