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| 294007135 | Manchu | The last imperial dynasty of China (from 1644 to 1912) which was overthrown by revolutionaries. | 0 | |
| 294007136 | Daimyo | Warlord rulers of small states following Onin War and disruption of Ashikaga Shogunate; holdings consolidated into unified and bounded ministates. | 1 | |
| 294007137 | Samurai | Literally 'those who serve,' the hereditary military elite of the Tokugawa Shogunate. | 2 | |
| 294007138 | Tokugawa Shogunate | The last of the three shogunates of Japan. | 3 | |
| 294007139 | Ming Empire | Empire based in China that Zhu Yuanzhang established after the overthrow of the Yuan Empire. The Ming emperor Yongle sponsored the building of the Forbidden City and the voyages of Zheng He. | 4 | |
| 294007140 | Qing Empire | Empire established in China by Manchus who overthrew the Ming Empire in 1644. At various times the Qing also controlled Manchuria, Mongolia, Turkestan, and Tibet. The last Qing emperor was overthrown in 1911. | 5 | |
| 294007141 | Kangxi | Chinese Qing emperor who promoted Confucian ideas and policies and expanded the Qing empire. | 6 | |
| 294007142 | Amur River | This river valley was a contested between northern China a frontier and Eastern Russia until the settlement arrangement in the Treaty of Nerchinsk. | 7 | |
| 294007143 | Macartney Mission | The unsuccessful attempt by the British Empire to establish diplomatic relations with the Qing Empire. | 8 | |
| 294007144 | Muscovy | Russian principality that emerged gradually during the era of Mongol domination. The Muscovite dynasty ruled without interruption from 1276 to 1598. | 9 | |
| 294007145 | Ural Mountains | A mountain range in western Russia extending from the arctic to the Caspian Sea. | 10 | |
| 294007146 | Tsar | From Latin caesar, this Russian title for a monarch was first used in reference to a Russian ruler by Ivan II. | 11 | |
| 294007147 | Siberia | The extreme northeastern sector of Asia, including the Kamchatka Peninsula and the present Russian coast of the Arctic Ocean, the Bering Strait, and the Sea of Okhotsk. | 12 | |
| 294007148 | Cossacks | The Cossacks maintained their independence beyond the reach of the oppressive landholders and the tsars hated officials. The solution to the problem of peasant flight was to complete the tying of the peasants to the land, making them serfs perpetually bound to serve the noble landholders, who were bound in turn to serve the tsar. | 13 | |
| 294007149 | Serfs | In medieval Europe, an agricultural laborer legally bound to a lord's property and obligated to perform set services for the lord. In Russia some serfs worked as artisans and in factories; serfdom was not abolished there until 1861. | 14 | |
| 294007150 | Peter the Great | Russian tsar,. He enthusiastically introduced Western languages and technologies to the Russian elite, moving the capital from Moscow to the new city of St. Petersburg. (p. 552) | 15 |
