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| 5333107684 | Taika Reforms | Attempt to remake Japanese monarch into an absolute Chinese-style emperor; included attempts to create professional bureaucracy and peasant conscript army | 0 | |
| 5333107685 | Tale of Genji | Written by Lady Murasaki; first novel in any language; relates life history of prominent and amorous son of the Japanese emperor; evidence for mannered style of Japanese society | 1 | |
| 5333107686 | Fujiwara | Japanese aristocratic family in mid-9th century; exercised exceptional influence over imperial affairs; aided in decline of imperial power | 2 | |
| 5333107687 | Bushi | Regional warrior leaders in Japan; ruled small kingdoms from fortresses; administered the law, supervised public works projects, and collected revenues; built up private armies | 3 | |
| 5333107688 | Samurai | Mounted troops of Japanese warrior leaders (bushi); loyal to local lords, not the emperor | 4 | |
| 5333107689 | Seppuku | Ritual suicide or disembowelment in West as hara-kiri; demonstrated courage and a means to restore family honor | 5 | |
| 5333107690 | Taira | Powerful Japanese family in 11th and 12th centuries; competed with the Minamota family; defeated after the Gempei Wars | 6 | |
| 5333107691 | Minamoto | Defeated the rival Taira family in Gempei Wars and established military government (bakufu) in 12th century Japan | 7 | |
| 5333107692 | Gempei wars | Waged for five years from 1180, on Honshu between Taira and Minamoto families; resulted in destruction of Taira | 8 | |
| 5333107693 | 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 | 9 | |
| 5333107694 | Shoguns | Military leaders of bakufu (military governments in Japan) | 10 | |
| 5333107695 | Hojo | A warrior family closely allied with the Minamoto; dominated the Kamakura regime and manipulated Minamoto rulers; ruled in name of emperor | 11 | |
| 5333107696 | Ashikaga Takuaji | Member of the Minamoto family; overthrew the Kamakura regime and established the Ashikaga Shogunate from 1336 - 1573; drove emperor from Kyoto to Yoshino | 12 | |
| 5333107697 | Daimyos | Warlord rulers of 300 small states following civil war and disruption of Ashikaga Shogunate; holdings consolidated into unified and bounded mini-states | 13 | |
| 5333107698 | Choson | Earliest Korean Kingdom; conquered by han emperor in 109 BCE | 14 | |
| 5333107699 | Koguryo | Tribal people of northern Korea; established an independent kingdom in the northern half of the peninsula; adopted cultural Signification | 15 | |
| 5333107700 | Silla | Independent Korean kingdom in southeastern part of peninsula; defeated Koguryo along with their Chinese Tang allies; submitted as a vassal of the Tang emperor and agreed to tribute payment; ruled united Korea by 668 | 16 | |
| 5333107701 | Paekche | Independent Korean kingdom in southeastern part of peninsula; defeated by rival Silla kingdom and its Chinese Tang allies in 7th century | 17 | |
| 5333107702 | Signification | Extensive adaptation of Chinese culture in other religions; typical of Korea and Japan, less typical of Vietnam | 18 | |
| 5333107703 | Trung Sisters | Leaders of one of the frequent peasant rebellions in Vietnam against Chinese rule; revolt broke out in 39 c.e.; demonstrates importance of Vietnamese women in indigenous society | 19 | |
| 5333107704 | Chams | Indianized rivals of the Vietnamese; driven into the highlands by the successful Vietnamese drive to the South | 20 | |
| 5333107705 | Nguyen | Rival Vietnamese dynasty that arose in southern Vietnam to challenge traditional dynasty of Trinh in north at Hanoi; kingdom centered on Red and Mekong rivers; capital at Hue | 21 | |
| 5333107706 | Trinh | Dynasty that ruled in north Vietnam at Hanoi, 1533 to 1772; rivals of Nguyen family in South | 22 |
