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| 12562206179 | An Lushan | One of the Tang dynasty's foremost military commanders who mounted a rebellion and captured the capital at Chang'an and the secondary capital at Luoyang in 755. |  | 0 |
| 12571130959 | Bushido | the code of honor and morals developed by the Japanese samurai. |  | 1 |
| 12576782752 | Chinese Buddhism | Buddhism was China's only large-scale cultural borrowing before the twentieth century; Buddhism entered China from India in the first and second centuries C.E. but only became popular in 300-800 C.E. through a series of cultural accommodations. At first supported by the state, Buddhism suffered persecution during the ninth century but continued to play a role in Chinese society. |  | 2 |
| 12576805419 | Chu Nom | a style of writing adapted from China to Vietnam. It became the basis for the development of an independent national literature. |  | 3 |
| 12576834356 | Foot Binding | Chinese practice of tightly wrapping girls' feet to keep them small, begun in the Tang dynasty; an emphasis on small size and delicacy was central to views of female beauty. |  | 4 |
| 12576847356 | Hangul | Korean alphabet |  | 5 |
| 12576864424 | Hangzhou | China's capital during the Song dynasty, with a population of more than a million people. |  | 6 |
| 12576883025 | Heian | Capital city of Japan under the Yamato emperors, later called Kyoto; built in order to escape influence of Buddhist monks; patterned after ancient imperial centers of China; never fully populated |  | 7 |
| 12576901161 | Jurchen | A nomadic people who established a state that included parts of northern China (1115-1234). |  | 8 |
| 12576920165 | Kami | Any sacred being worshipped in Shinto including nature spirits and ancestors |  | 9 |
| 12576931547 | 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 |  | 10 |
| 12576946566 | Koryo | Korean dynasty (918-1392) |  | 11 |
| 12576957945 | Kumsong | The capital of Korea in the medieval era |  | 12 |
| 12576985353 | Marusaki Shikibu | wrote the world's 1st novel- Tale of Genji; for entertainment |  | 13 |
| 12576992218 | Nara | First Japanese imperial capital |  | 14 |
| 12577003058 | Neo-Confucianism | A philosophy that emerged in Song-dynasty China; it revived Confucian thinking while adding in Buddhist and Daoist elements. |  | 15 |
| 12577029539 | Pure Land Buddhism | A school of Buddhism that taught that believers would be reborn in a blissful, pure land or paradise. |  | 16 |
| 12577052092 | Samurai | Class of warriors in feudal Japan who pledged loyalty to a noble in return for land. |  | 17 |
| 12577063423 | tribute system | Chinese method of dealing with foreign lands and peoples that assumed the subordination of all non-Chinese authorities and required the payment of tribute—produce of value from their countries—to the Chinese emperor (although the Chinese gifts given in return were often much more valuable). | 18 | |
| 12577078809 | Trung Sisters | Two Vietnamese sisters who launched a major revolt against the Chinese presence in Vietnam in 39 C.E.; the rebellion was crushed and the sisters committed suicide, but they remained symbols of Vietnamese resistance to China for centuries. |  | 19 |
