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| 246145042 | Wendi | Member of prominent northern Chinese family during period of Six Dynasties; proclaimed himself emperor; supported by nomadic peoples of northern China; established Sui dynasty | 0 | |
| 246145043 | Neo-Confucianism | the resurgence of Confucianism and the influence of Confucian scholars during the Tang Dynasty; a unification of Daoist or Buddhist metaphysics with Confucian pragmatism | 1 | |
| 246145044 | Jinshi | Title granted to students who passed the most difficult Chinese examination on all of Chinese literature; became immediate dignitaries and eligible for high office | 2 | |
| 246145045 | Jurchens | Founders of Qin kingdom that succeeded the Liao in northern China; annexed most of the Yellow River basin and forced the Song to flee south. | 3 | |
| 246145046 | Junks | Chinese ships equipped with watertight bulkheads, sternpost rudders, compasses, and bamboo fenders; dominant force in Asian seas east of the Malayan peninsula | 4 | |
| 246145047 | Flying Money | Credit vouchers that could be presented for reimbursement | 5 | |
| 246145048 | Changan | Capital of Tang dynasty; population of 2 million, larger than any other city in the world at that time. | 6 | |
| 246145049 | 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 | |
| 246145050 | Samurai | feudal Japanese military aristocracy | 8 | |
| 246145051 | Bakufu | Military government established by the Minamoto following the Gempei Wars; centered at Kamakura; retained emperor, but real power resided in military government and samurai | 9 | |
| 246145052 | Shogun | a hereditary military dictator of Japan, head of the Bakufu | 10 | |
| 246145053 | Daimyo | a japanese feudal lord who commanded a private army of samurai | 11 | |
| 246145054 | Choson | earliest Korean Kingdom; conquered by Han emperor in 109 BCE | 12 | |
| 246145055 | Sinification | Extensive adaptation of Chinese culture in other regions; typical of Korea and Japan, less typical of Vietnam. | 13 | |
| 246145056 | Silla | Independent Korean kingdom in southeastern part of peninsula; defeated Koguryo along with their Chinese Tang allies; submitted as a vassal of the Tang emperor and agreed to tribute payment; ruled united Korea by 668. | 14 | |
| 246145057 | Nguyen | Southern Vietnamese dynasty with capital at Hue that challenged northern Trinh dynasty with center at Hanoi | 15 | |
| 246145058 | Trung Sisters | Leaders of one of the frequent peasant rebellions in Vietnam against Chinese rule; children of a deposed local leader | 16 | |
| 246145059 | Chinggis Khan | Also known as Temujin; he united the Mongol tribes into an unstoppable fighting force; created largest single land empire in history. | 17 | |
| 246145060 | Karakorum | Capital of the Mongol empire under Chinggis Khan, 1162 - 1227. | 18 | |
| 246145061 | Batu | ruler of the Golden Horde; one of Chinggis Khan's grandsons; responsible for the invasion of Russia beginning in 1236. | 19 | |
| 246145062 | Ogadei | Third son of Chinggis Khan; succeeded Chinggs Khan as khagan of the Mongols following his father's death | 20 | |
| 246145063 | Golden Horde | Mongol khanate founded by Genghis Khan's grandson Batu. It was based in southern Russia and quickly adopted both the Turkic language and Islam. | 21 | |
| 246145064 | Ilkhan Khanate | One of four regional subdivisions of the Mongol Empire after the death of Chinggis Khan; eventually included much of Abbasid Empire | 22 | |
| 246145065 | Khanate | a region of Mongol Empire, having its own leader, or khan, and government | 23 | |
| 246145066 | Hulegu | ruler of Ilkhan Khanate; grandson of Chinggis Khan; responsible for capture and destruction of Baghdad | 24 | |
| 246145067 | Mameluks | Muslim slave warriors; established a dynasty in Egypt; defeated the Mongols at Ain Jalut in 1260 and halted Mongol advance | 25 | |
| 246145068 | Kublai Khan | Mongolian emperor of China and grandson of Genghis Khan who completed his grandfather's conquest of China | 26 | |
| 246145069 | Timur-i-Lang | Last major nomad leader; 14th-century Turkic ruler of Samarkand; launched attacks in Persia, Fertile Crescent, India, southern Russia; empire disintegrated after his death in 1405. | 27 | |
| 246145070 | Ibn-Rushd | Muslim philosopher who blended Aristotle and Plato's views with Islam | 28 | |
| 246145071 | Averroes | Arabian philosopher born in Spain | 29 | |
| 246145072 | Ottoman Empire | a Turkish sultanate of southwestern Asia and northeastern Africa and southeastern Europe | 30 | |
| 246145073 | Cheng Ho | Admiral (a Muslim Chinese) who commanded the great Indian Ocean expeditions between 1405 and 1433. | 31 | |
| 246145074 | Humanism | the doctrine emphasizing a person's capacity for self-realization through reason | 32 | |
| 246145075 | Mughals | Mongols of the Indian Subcontinent. This name was used because they were a mix of the Islamic Mongols and the native Hindus | 33 | |
| 246145076 | Ethnocentrism | belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group | 34 | |
| 246145077 | Toltecs | Powerful empire in central Mexico (900-1168 C.E.). It influenced much of Mesoamerica. Aztecs claimed ties to this earlier civilization. | 35 | |
| 246145078 | Aztecs | The Azetcs were a Native American Empire who lived in Mexico. Their capital was Tenochtitlan. Conquered by Cortes in 1521. | 36 | |
| 246145079 | Tenochtitlan | Aztec capital city, located in present-day Mexico City | 37 | |
| 246145080 | Calpulli | Clans in Aztec society, later explanded to include residential groups that distributed land and provided labor and warriors | 38 | |
| 246145081 | Chinampas | Raised fields constructed along lake shores in Mesoamerica to increase agricultural yields. | 39 | |
| 246145082 | Twantinsuyu | Inca Empire; region from present-day Columbia to Chile and eastward to northern Argentina | 40 | |
| 246145083 | Inca | Largest and most powerful Andean empire. Controlled the Pacific coast of South America from Ecuador to Chile from its capital of Cuzco. | 41 | |
| 246145084 | 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. | 42 | |
| 246145085 | Mita | In the Incan empire, the requirement that all able-bodied subjects work for the state a certain number of days each year. | 43 | |
| 246145086 | Quipu | An arrangement of knotted strings on a cord, used by the Inca to record numerical information. | 44 |
