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| 34675413 | Wendi | member of prominent northern Chinese family during period of Six Dynasties; proclaimed himself emperor; supported by nomadic peoples of northern China; established Sui Dynasty | 0 | |
| 34675414 | Yangdi | Second member of Sui dynasty; murdered his father to gain throne; restored Confucian examination system; responsible for construction of Chinese canal system; assassinated in 618 | 1 | |
| 34675415 | Empress Wu | Tang ruler 690-705 C.E. in China; supported Buddhist establishment; tried to elevate Buddhism to state religion; had multistory statues of Buddha created | 2 | |
| 34675416 | Wuzong | Chinese emperor of Tang dynasty who openly persecuted Buddhism destroying monasteries in 840s; reduced influence of Chinese Buddhism in favor of Confucian ideology | 3 | |
| 34675417 | Xuanzong | leading Chinese emperor of the tang dynasty who reigned from 713 to 755 though he encouraged overexpansion | 4 | |
| 34675418 | Yang Guefei | Royal concubine during reign of Xuanzong; introduction of relatives into royal administration led to revolt | 5 | |
| 34675419 | Zhao Kuangyin | Founder of Song dynasty; originally a general following fall of Tang; took title of Taizu; failed to overcome northern Liao dynasty that remained independent (r.960-976) | 6 | |
| 34675420 | Zhu Xi | most prominent of the neo-Confucian scholars during the Song dynasty in China; stressed importance of applying philosophical principles to everyday life and action | 7 | |
| 34675421 | Wang Anshi | Confucian scholar and chief minister of a Song emperor in 1070s; introduced sweeping reforms based on Legalists; advocated greater state intervention in society | 8 | |
| 34675422 | Li Bo | Most famous poet of the Tang era; blended images of the mundane world with philosophical musings | 9 | |
| 34675423 | Flying money | Chinese credit instruments that provided credit vouchers to merchants to be redeemed at the end of the voyage; reduced danger of robbery; early form of currency | 10 | |
| 34675424 | Sui Dynasty | dynasty that succeeded the Han in China; emerged from strong rulers in northern China; united all of northern China and reconquered southern China | 11 | |
| 34675425 | Tang Dynasty | dynasty that succeeded the Sui in 618C.E. more stable than previous dynasty | 12 | |
| 34675426 | Song Dynasty | ruling dynasty in China between 960 and 1279; it succeeded the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period, and was followed by the Yuan Dynasty; first government in world history to issue banknotes or paper money, and the first Chinese government to establish a permanent standing navy; also the first known use of gunpowder and discernment of true north using a compass | 13 | |
| 34675427 | Jurchen | Founders of the Qin kingdom that succeeded the Liao in northern China; annexed most of Yellow River basin and forced Song to flee to south | 14 | |
| 34675428 | Khitan | Nomadic peoples of Manchuria; militarily superior to Song dynasty China but influenced by Chinese culture; forced humiliating treaties on Song China in 11th century | 15 | |
| 34675429 | Mahayana Buddhism | Chinese version of Buddhism; placed considerable emphasis on Buddha as god or savior | 16 | |
| 34675430 | Neo-Confucianism | Revived ancient Confucian teachings in Song era China; great impact on the dynasties that followed; emphasis on tradition and hostility to foreign systems made Chinese rulers and bureaucrats less receptive to outside ideas and influences | 17 | |
| 34675431 | Bakufu | Military government established by the Minamoto following the Gempei Wars; centered at Kamakura; retained emperor, but real power resided in military government and samurai | 18 | |
| 34675432 | Bushi (Daimyo) | Regional warrior leaders in Japan; ruled small kingdoms from fortresses; administered the law, supervised public works projects, and collected revenues; built up private armies | 19 | |
| 34675433 | Daimyo | Warlord rulers of 300 small states following civil war and disruption of Ashikaga Shogunate; holdings consolidated into unified and bounded mini-states | 20 | |
| 34675434 | 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 | 21 | |
| 34675435 | Gempei Wars | Waged for five years from 1180, on Honshu between tiara and Minamoto families; resulted in destruction of Taira | 22 | |
| 34675436 | Junks | Chinese ships equipped with watertight bulkheads, sternpost rudders, compasses, and bamboo fenders; dominant force in Asian seas east of the Malayan peninsula | 23 | |
| 34675437 | Samurai | Mounted troops of Japanese warrior leaders (bushi); loyal to local lords, not the emperor | 24 | |
| 34675438 | Scholar-gentry | Chinese class created by the marital linkage of the local land-holding aristocracy with the office-holding shi; superseded shi as governors of China | 25 | |
| 34675439 | Sepukku | Ritual suicide or disembowelment in Japan; commonly known in West as hara-kiri; demonstrated courage and a means to restore family honor | 26 | |
| 34675440 | Serf | Peasant agricultural laborers within the manorial system of the Middle Ages | 27 | |
| 34675441 | Shinto | Religion of early Japanese culture; devotees worshipped numerous gods and spirits associated with the natural world; offers of food and prayers made to gods and nature spirits | 28 | |
| 34675442 | Shogun | Military leaders of the bakufu | 29 | |
| 34675443 | Bakufu | military governments in Japan | 30 | |
| 34675444 | An Lushan | of nomadic general origin, led widely supported revolt in 755 during the Tang dynasty | 31 | |
| 34675445 | Shogunate | a military rank and historical title for Hereditary Commanders in Chief of the Armed Forces of Japan | 32 | |
| 34675446 | Tea Ceremony | ritualised form of making tea; ancient Shinto ritual | 33 | |
| 34675447 | Tribute | given to the Jin Dynasty for peace | 34 | |
| 34675448 | Kowtow | the act of deep respect shown by kneeling and bowing so low as to have your head touching the ground | 35 | |
| 34675449 | Bushido | japanese code of conduct and a way of the samurai life, loosely analogous to the concept of chivalry; "Way of the Warrior"; valued absolute loyalty, physical strength, courage, and honor above all | 36 | |
| 34675450 | Celadon | a term for ceramics denoting both a type of glaze and a ware of a specific color; crackle glazes: | 37 | |
| 34675451 | Abacus | a calculating tool used primarily in parts of Asia for performing arithmetic processes | 38 | |
| 34675452 | Porcelain | material made by heating raw materials, generally including clay in the form of kaolin | 39 | |
| 34675453 | Block Printing | a technique for printing text, images or patterns used widely throughout East Asia and originating in China in antiquity as a method of printing on textiles and later paper | 40 |
