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| 145100461 | Manchu | the last imperial dynasty of China (from 1644 to 1912) which was overthrown by revolutionaries | 0 | |
| 145100462 | daimyo | a japanese feudal lord who commanded a private army of samurai | 1 | |
| 145100463 | samuri | heavily armoured Japanese knight during medieval time 1200 ad to 1600ad, part of nobility, supreme fighting force on earth | 2 | |
| 145100464 | Tokugawa Shogunate | a dynasty of shoguns that ruled a unified Japan from 1603 to 1867 | 3 | |
| 145100465 | 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. (355) | 4 | |
| 145100466 | 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. (p. 556) | 5 | |
| 145100467 | 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. | 6 | |
| 145100468 | Amur River | This river valley was a contested frontier between northern China and eastern Russia until the settlement arranged in Treaty of Nerchinsk (1689). | 7 | |
| 145100469 | Macartney Mission | The unsuccessful attempt by the British Empire to establish diplomatic relations with the Qing Empire. (p. 560) | 8 | |
| 145100470 | Muscovy | Russian principality that emerged gradually during the era of Mongol domination. The Muscovite dynasty ruled without interruption from 1276 to 1598. (p. 551) | 9 | |
| 145100471 | Ural Mountains | a mountain range in western Russia extending from the arctic to the Caspian Sea | 10 | |
| 145100472 | tsar | a male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917) | 11 | |
| 145100473 | 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. (p. 551) | 12 | |
| 145100474 | Cossacks | free groups and outlaw armies of peasants who fled the tzar and service nobility | 13 | |
| 145100475 | serfs | a person who lived on and farmed a lords land in feudal times | 14 | |
| 145100476 | Peter the Great | czar of Russia who introduced ideas from western Europe to reform the government | 15 |
