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| 8607514047 | Taika Reforms | Attempt to remake Japanese monarch into an absolute Chinese-style emperor; included attempts to create professional bureaucracy and peasant conscript army. |  | 0 |
| 8607528813 | The 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 |
| 8607565952 | Fujiwara | Japanese aristocratic family in mid-9th century; exercised exceptional influence over imperial affairs; aided in decline of imperial power |  | 2 |
| 8616780340 | 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 | |
| 8616783470 | Samurai | Mounted troops of Japanese warrior leaders (bushi); loyal to local lords, not the emperor |  | 4 |
| 8616788213 | Seppuku | Ritual suicide or disembowelment in Japan; commonly known in West as hara-kiri; demonstrated courage and a means to restore family honor. | 5 | |
| 8616824057 | Taira | Powerful Japanese family in 11th and 12th centuries; competed with Minamoto family; defeated after the Gempei Wars |  | 6 |
| 8616829436 | Minamoto | Defeated the rival Taira family in Gempei Wars and established military government (bakufu) in 12th-century Japan | 7 | |
| 8616833814 | Gempei Wars | Waged for five years from 1180, on Honshu between Taira and Minamoto families; resulted in destruction of Taira |  | 8 |
| 8616837893 | 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 |
| 8616846743 | Shoguns | Military leaders of the bakufu (military governments in Japan). |  | 10 |
| 8616848365 | Hojo | Warrior family closely allied with Minamoto; dominated Kamakura regime and manipulated Minamoto rulers who claimed to rule in name of Japanese emperor at Kyoto | 11 | |
| 8616855406 | 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 | |
| 8616859474 | Ashikaga Shogunate | Replaced the Kamakura regime in Japan; ruled from 1336-1573; destroyed rival Yoshino center of imperial authority. |  | 13 |
| 8616867282 | Daimoyos | Warlord rulers of 300 small states following civil war and disruption of Ashikaga Shogunate; holdings consolidated into unified and bounded mini-states |  | 14 |
| 8616869538 | Choson | Earliest Korean kingdom; conquered by Han armies in 109 B.C.E. |  | 15 |
| 8616873542 | Koguryo | Tribal people of northern Korea; established an independent kingdom in the northern half of the peninsula in 37 B.C.E; began a process of Sinification |  | 16 |
| 8616875246 | Silla | Independent Korean kingdom in southeastern part of the 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 | 17 | |
| 8616879976 | Paekche | Independent Korean kingdom in southwestern part of peninsula; defeated by rival Rilla kingdom and its Chinese Tang allies in 7th century | 18 | |
| 8616881884 | Sinification | Extensive adoption of Chinese culture in other regions; typical of Korea, Japan, and Vietnam. |  | 19 |
| 8616886885 | Yi | Korean dynasty that succeeded Koryo dynasty following period of Mongol invasions; established in 1392; ruled Korea to 1910; restored aristocratic dominance and Chinese influence | 20 | |
| 8616888705 | Khmers | Indianized rivals of the Vietnamese; moved into Mekong River delta region at time of Vietnamese drive to the south. |  | 21 |
| 8616911623 | 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 | 22 | |
| 8616921290 | Chams | Indianized rivals of the Vietnamese; driven into the highlands by the successful Vietnamese drive to the south |  | 23 |
| 8616922924 | 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 |  | 24 |
| 8616950970 | Trinh | Dynasty that ruled in North Vietnam at Hanoi, 1533-1772; rivals of Nguyen family in south | 25 |
