These are definitions from the glossary, and some are ones I just had to find in text.
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| 41885288 | Toltecs | Nomadic people from beyond the northern frontier of the sedentary agricultural area in Mesoamerica; established capital of Tula following migration into central Mesoamerica plateau; strongly militaristic ethic including cult of human sacrifice | 0 | |
| 41885289 | Topiltzin | Religious leader and reformer of the Toltecs; dedicated to god Quetzalcoatl; after losing struggle for power, went into exile in the Yucatan peninsula | 1 | |
| 41885290 | Quetzalcoatl | Toltec deity; Feathered Serpent; adopted by Aztecs as a major god | 2 | |
| 41885291 | Aztecs | The Mexica; one of the nomadic tribes that used political anarchy after the fall of the Toltecs to penetrate into sedentary agricultural zone of Mesoamerican plateau; established empire after 1325 around shores of Lake Texcoco | 3 | |
| 41885292 | Tenochtitlan | Founded 1325 on marshy island in Make Texcoco; became center of Aztec power; joined with Tlacopan and Texcoco in 1434 to form a triple alliance that controlled most of the central plateau of Mesoamerica | 4 | |
| 41885293 | Moctezuma II | Last independent Aztec emperor; killed during Hernan Cortes conquest of Tenochtitlan | 5 | |
| 41885294 | Tlaloc | Major god of Aztecs; associated with fertility and the agricultural cycle; god of rain | 6 | |
| 41885295 | Huitzilopochtli | Aztec tribal patron god; central figure of cult of human sacrifice and warfare; identified with old sun god | 7 | |
| 41885296 | Nezhualcoyotl | Leading Aztec king of the 15 century | 8 | |
| 41885297 | Chinampas | Bed of aquatic weeds, mud, and earth placed in frames made of cane and rooted in lakes to create "floating islands"; systems of irrigated agriculture utilized by Aztecs | 9 | |
| 41885298 | Pochteca | Special merchant class in Aztec society; specialized in long-distance trade in luxury items | 10 | |
| 41885299 | Calpulli | Seven clans in the Aztec society, later expanded to more than sixty; divided into residential groupings that distributed land and provided labor and warriors | 11 | |
| 41885300 | Inca | Group of clans centered at Cuzco that were able to create empire in Andean Civilization | 12 | |
| 41885301 | Lake Texcoco | Where the Aztec empire was established | 13 | |
| 41885302 | Maize | Part of the fertility and agricultural cycle theme or cults of the Aztec array of gods | 14 | |
| 41885303 | Speaker | Ruler of city-state (each city-state had one); chosen from the nobility; Great Speaker first among supposed equals | 15 | |
| 41885304 | Chimor | A coastal kingdom; centered on capital of Chan-Chan; emerged as most powerful small state; between 900 and its conquest by the Incas in 1465, gained control of most of north coast of Peru | 16 | |
| 41885305 | Pachacuti | Ruler of Inca society from 1438 to 1471; launched a series of military campaigns that gave Incas control of the region from Cuzco to the shores of Lake Titicaca | 17 | |
| 41885306 | Twantinsuyu | Word for Inca Empire; region from present-day Colombia to Chile and eastward to northern Argentina | 18 | |
| 41885307 | Split Inheritance | Inca practice of descent; all titles and political power went to successor, but wealth and land remained in hands of male descendants for support of cult of dead Inca's mummy | 19 | |
| 41885308 | Temple of the Sun at Cuzco | Inca religious center located in Cuzco; center of state religion; held mummies of past Incas | 20 | |
| 41885309 | Quechua | The language the ayllus spoke | 21 | |
| 41885310 | Tambos | Way stations used by Incas as inns and storehouses; supply centers for Inca armies on move; relay points for system of runners used to carry messages | 22 | |
| 41885311 | Mita | Labor extracted for lands assigned to the state and religion; all communities were expected to contribute; an essential aspect of Inca imperial control | 23 | |
| 41885312 | Parallel Descent | Property rights within the ayllus and among the nobility passed in both the male and female lines | 24 | |
| 41885313 | Ayllus | Households in Andean societies that recognized some form of kinship; traced descent from some common, sometimes mythical ancestor | 25 | |
| 41885314 | Yanas | A class of people within Inca society removed from their ayllus to serve permanently as servants, artisans, or workers for the Inca or the Inca nobility | 26 | |
| 41885316 | Quipu | System of knotted strings utilized by the Incas in place of a writing system; could contain numerical and other types of information for censuses and financial records | 27 | |
| 41885317 | Wendi | Member of prominent northern Chinese family during period of Six Dynasties; proclaimed himself emperor; supported by nomadic people of northern China; established Sui dynasty | 28 | |
| 41885318 | Sui | Established by Wendi in 589; capital Loyang (?); ended 618 (?) | 29 | |
| 41885319 | Yangdi | Second member of Sui dynasty; murdered his father to get throne; restored Confucian examination system; responsible for construction of Chinese canal system; assassinated in 618 | 30 | |
| 41885320 | Li Yuan | Also known as Duke of Tang; minister for Yangdi; took over empire following assassination of Yangdi; first emperor of Tang dynasty; took imperial title of Gaozu | 31 | |
| 41885321 | Tang dynasty | Dynasty that succeeded the Sui in 618 c.e.; more stable than previous dynasty | 32 | |
| 41887402 | Scholar-gentry | Losing power in in Era of Division; reworked Confucian ideology and helped the Tang to maintain imperial unity | 33 | |
| 41887403 | Changan | Capital of Tang dynasty; population of two million, larger than any other city in the world at that time | 34 | |
| 41887404 | Ministry of Rites | Administered examinations to students from Chinese government schools or those recommended by distinguished scholars | 35 | |
| 41887405 | Chan | Known as Zen in Japan; Stressed meditation and appreciated of natural and artistic beauty; | 36 | |
| 41887406 | Zen | Stressed meditation and appreciated of natural and artistic beauty | 37 | |
| 41887407 | Empress Wu | Patronized Buddhism; 690-705; endowed monasteries, commissioned colossal statues of Buddha, and sought to make Buddhism the state religion | 38 | |
| 41887408 | Emperor Wuzong | Chinese emperor of Tang dynasty who openly persecuted Buddhism by destroying monasteries in 840s; reduced influence of Chinese Buddhism in favor of Confucian ideology | 39 | |
| 41887409 | Xuanzong | Leading Chinese emperor of the Tang dynasty who reigned from 713 to 755 though he encouraged overexpansion | 40 | |
| 41887410 | Yang Guifei | Young woman belonging to harem of Tang prince; raised to status of royal concubine during reign of Xuanzong; introduction of relatives into royal administration led to revolt | 41 | |
| 41887411 | Zhao Kuangyin | Founder of Song dynasty; originally a general following fall of Tang; tooke title of Taizu; failed to overcome northern Liao dynasty that remained independent | 42 | |
| 41887412 | Song dynasty | 960-1279; saw the restoration of the scholar-gentry and the Confucian order; a time of artistic, literary, and technological flourishing; Male dominance reached new heights; | 43 | |
| 41887413 | Liao | founded by Khitan nomads in 907; became very much influenced by Chinese culture; | 44 | |
| 41887414 | Zhu Xi | Most prominent of neo-Confucian scholars during the Song dynasty in China; stressed importance of applying philosophical principle to everyday life and action | 45 | |
| 41887415 | Neo-Confucians | believed that the cultivation of personal morality was the highest human goal; emphasis on rank, obligation, deference, and performance of rituals reinforced class, gender, and age distinctions; | 46 | |
| 41887416 | Tangut | Rulers of Xi-Xia kingdom of northwest China; one of regional kingdoms during period of southern Song; conquered by Mongols in 1226 | 47 | |
| 41887417 | Xi Xia | Kingdom established southwest of Liao; Song paid them (?); | 48 | |
| 41887418 | Wang Anshi | Confucian scholar and chief minister of a Song emperor in 1070s; introduced sweeping reforms based in Legalists; advocated greater state intervention in society | 49 | |
| 41887419 | Jurchens | Founders of the Qin kingdom that succeeded the Liao in northern China; annexed most of the Yellow River basin and forced Song to flee south | 50 | |
| 41887421 | Southern Song dynasty | Rump state of Song dynasty from 1127 ro 1279; carved out of much larger domains ruled by the Tang and northern Song | 51 | |
| 41887422 | Grand Canal | more than 1,200 miles long; made by Yangdi; linked the original civilization centers of the north with the Yangtze River basin | 52 | |
| 41887423 | Silk road | Reopened by the expansion into central Asia; intensified international contacts with the Buddhist and Islamic worlds | 53 | |
| 41887424 | "Flying Money" | Chinese credit instrument that provided credit vouchers to merchants to be redeemed at the end of the voyage; reduced danger of robbery; early form of currency | 54 | |
| 41887425 | Footbinding | Practice in Chinese society to mutilate women's feet in order to make them smaller; produced pain and restricted women's movement; made it easier to confine women to the household | 55 | |
| 41887426 | Li Bo | Most famous poet of the Tang era; blended images of the mundane world with philosophical meaning | 56 | |
| 41887427 | Taika reforms | Attempt to remakes Japanese monarch into an absolute Chinese-style emperor; included attempts to create professional bureaucracy and peasant conscript army | 57 | |
| 41887428 | Fujiwara family | Japanese aristocratic family in mid-9 century; exercised exceptional influence over imperial affairs; aided in decline of imperial power | 58 | |
| 41887429 | Bushi | Regional warrior leaders in Japan; ruled small kingdoms from fortresses; administered the law, supervised public work projects, and collected revenues; built up private armies | 59 | |
| 41887430 | Samurai | Mounted troops of the bushi; loyal to the local lords, not the emperor | 60 | |
| 41887431 | Seppuku | Ritual suicides committed by disgraced warriors | 61 | |
| 41887432 | Taira | One of the powerful families that fought for dominance during the 1180s in the Gumpei wars; lost | 62 | |
| 41887433 | Minamoto | One of the powerful families that fought for dominance during the 1180s in the Gumpei wars; won; beginning of Japanese feudalism | 63 | |
| 41887434 | Gempei Wars | Waged for five years from 1180, on Honshu between Taira and Minamoto families; resulted in the destruction of Taira | 64 | |
| 41887435 | Bakufu | military government established by minamoto in 1185 | 65 | |
| 41887436 | Shoguns | Military leaders of the Bakufu | 66 | |
| 41887437 | Daimyo | Warlord rulers of 300 small states following Onin War and disruption of Ashikaga Shogunate; holdings consolidated into unified and bounded ministates | 67 | |
| 41887438 | Choson | Earliest Korean kingdom; conquered by Han emperor in 109 b.c.e. | 68 | |
| 41887439 | Koguryo | Tribal people of northern Korea; established an independent kingdom in the norther half of the peninsula adopted cultural Sinification | 69 | |
| 41887440 | 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 until Korea by 668 | 70 | |
| 41887441 | Paekche | One of the smaller kingdoms in Korea that the Silla overtook | 71 | |
| 41887442 | Sinification | Extensive adaption of Chinese culture in other regions; typical of Korea and Japan, less typical of Vietnam | 72 | |
| 41887443 | Yi dynasty | Korean dynasty that succeeded Koryo dynasty following period of Mongol invasions; established in 1392; ruled Korea to 1910; restored aristocratic dominance and Chinese influence | 73 | |
| 41887444 | 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 Vietnam women in indigenous society | 74 | |
| 41887445 | Nguyen family | 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 | 75 | |
| 41887446 | Kuriltai | Meeting of all Mongol chieftains at which the supreme ruler of all tribes was selected | 76 | |
| 42318490 | Mahayana Buddhism | Chinese version of Buddhism; placed considerable emphasis on Buddha as god or savior | 77 |
