Adapted from "The Earth and its Peoples: A Global History," 5th ed., Chapter 10
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| 291993054 | Grand Canal | 1,100-mile waterway linking Yellow and Yangzi rivers | 0 | |
| 291993055 | Li Shimin | one of the founders of the Tang Empire and its second empire | 1 | |
| 291993056 | Tang Empire | empire unifying China and part of Central Asia, founded 618 and ended 907 | 2 | |
| 291993057 | tributary system | system in which countries in East and Southeast Asia not under the direct controls of Chinese empie acknowledged the superiority of the emperors in China in exchange for trading rights or strategic alliances | 3 | |
| 291993058 | Song Empire | empire in central and southern China while the Liao and Jin peoples controlled the north | 4 | |
| 291993059 | junk | very large flatbottom sailing ship produced in the Tang, Song, and Ming Empires | 5 | |
| 291993060 | gunpowder | a mixture of saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal | 6 | |
| 291993061 | neo-Confucianism | new approaches to understanding classic Confucian texts that became the basic ruling philosophy in China from the Song period to the twentieth century | 7 | |
| 291993062 | Zen | the Japanese word for a branch of Mahayana Buddhism based on highly disciplined meditation | 8 | |
| 291993063 | movable type | type in which each individual character is cast on a separate piece of metal; replaced woodblock printing | 9 | |
| 291993064 | shamanism | the practice of identifying special individuals who will interact with spirits for the benefit of the community | 10 | |
| 291993065 | Koryo | Korean kingdom founded in 918 and destroyed by a Mongol invasion in 1259 | 11 | |
| 291993066 | Fujiwara | aristocratic family that dominated the Japanese imperial court between the ninth and twelfth centuries | 12 | |
| 291993067 | Kamakura Shogunate | the first of Japan's decentralized military governments | 13 | |
| 291993068 | Champa rice | quick-maturing rice that can allow two harvests in one growing season | 14 | |
| 291993069 | Srivijaya | state based on the Indonesian island of Sumatra between seventh and eleventh centuries CE | 15 |
