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| 52588574 | Yongle | Reign period of Zhu Di (1360-1424), the third emperor of the Ming Empire (1403-1424). He sponsored the building of the Forbidden City, a huge encyclopedia project, the expeitions of Zheng He, and the reopening of China's borders to trade and travel. | 0 | |
| 52588575 | Kangxi | Gained formal control of government at the age of 16. Was an intelectual prodigy who mastered classical Chinese, Manchu, and Mongolian at an early age. | 1 | |
| 52588576 | Qianlong | Emperor of China, son of Kangxi expanded China's bounderies extensively. Would only rule for sixty years so as to not dishonor his grandfather. | 2 | |
| 52588577 | Zheng He | An imperial eunuch and Muslim, entrusted by the Ming emperor Yongle with a series of state voyages that took his gigantic ships through the Indian Ocean, from Southeast Asia to Africa. | 3 | |
| 52588578 | Matteo Ricci | Italian Jesuit who wanted to convert China to Christianity during the Ming dynasty | 4 | |
| 52588579 | Ieyasu | He was a vassal of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. He succeeded him as most powerful military figure in Japan. He was granted title of shogun in 1603 and established Tokugawa shogunate. He established political unity in Japan. | 5 | |
| 52588580 | Ming Dynasty | Succeeded Mongol Yuan dynasty in China in 1368; lasted until 1644; initially mounted huge trade expeditions to southern Asia and elsewhere, but later concentrated efforts on internal development within China. | 6 | |
| 52588581 | Great Wall | Chinese defensive fortification built to keep out northern nomadic invaders; began during the reign of Shi Huangdi. | 7 | |
| 52588582 | Forbidden City | a walled section of Peking, built in the 15th Century, containing the imperial palace and other buildings of the imperial government of China | 8 | |
| 52588583 | Qing Dynasty | the last imperial dynasty of China (from 1644 to 1912) which was overthrown by revolutionaries; during the Qing dynasty China was ruled by the Manchu | 9 | |
| 52588584 | Scholar-Bureaucrats | civil servants appointed by the emperor of China to perform day-to-day governance from the Sui Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty in 1912, China's last imperial dynasty | 10 | |
| 52588585 | Footbinding | When Chinese women bind the foot, so it will not grow, untill the foot breaks and the women cannot walk and has to be carried by servants. That shows that the women is rich enough to afford servants. | 11 | |
| 52588586 | Neo-Confucianism | term that describesthe resurgence of confusianism and the influence of confucian scholars during the Tang dynasty | 12 | |
| 52588587 | Tokugawa Shogunate | Japanese ruling dynasty that strove to isolate it from foreign influences | 13 | |
| 52588588 | Daimyo | a japanese feudal lord who commanded a private army of samurai | 14 | |
| 52588589 | Floating Worlds | Entertainment district: Haiku clubs and tea houses, Geisha, Kabuki plays, sumo. | 15 |
