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| 14720831635 | Ancestor veneration | Ritual practice based on the belief that deceased family members have a continued existence, take an interest in the affairs of the world, and possess the ability to influence the fortune of the living. The goal is to ensure the dead's continued well-being and positive disposition towards the living and sometimes to ask for special favors or assistance. The social or nonreligious function of it is "to cultivate kinship values like filial piety, family loyalty, and continuity of the family lineage. | 0 | |
| 14720831636 | Champa rice | Quick-maturing, drought resistant rice that can allow two harvests of sixty days each in one growing season. Originally introduced from Vietnam it was later sent to China as a tribute gift. | 1 | |
| 14720831640 | Mandate of Heaven | The Chinese concept that the deity granted a dynasty the right to rule and took away that right if the dynasty did not rule wisely. | 2 | |
| 14720831642 | Bureaucracy | A group of government officials headed by an administrator. | 3 | |
| 14720831644 | Delhi Sultanates | Muslim dynasties that existed between the 13th and 16th centuries. The territory was mainly confined to the northern part of India, though at its peak, it was in control of much of the Indian subcontinent. It came to an end with the foundation of the Mughal Empire. | 4 | |
| 14720831647 | Mahayana | Collection of Buddhist traditions (I.e. Zen, Pure Land, Nichiren, and Tibetan) that teach anyone can aspire to achieve awakening and thereby become a Bodhisattva (a potential Buddha). As it spread beyond India, it typically adopted the distinct local cultural characteristics of China (like Confucianism and Daoism), Japan, Mongolia, Tibet, and Korea. | 5 | |
| 14720831648 | Syncretism | A blend of two or more cultures or cultural traditions. | 6 | |
| 14720831650 | Patriarchal | Pertaining to a social system in which the father is the head of the family. | 7 | |
| 14720831652 | Filial piety | In China, respect for one's parents and other elders. | 8 | |
| 14720831653 | Dynasty | A series of rulers from the same family. | 9 | |
| 14720831654 | Footbinding | In China, a method of breaking and binding women's feet was seen as a sign of beauty and social position and that confined them to the household. | 10 | |
| 14720831655 | Grand Canal | Series of waterways in eastern and northern China built to enable successive Chinese regimes to transport surplus grain from the agriculturally rich Yangtze (Chang) and Huai river valleys to feed the capital cities and large standing armies in northern China. | 11 | |
| 14720831656 | Flying Money | Paper money that was first used in China in the 9th century AD. Originally it was called 'flying monkey' (fei-chien) because it could blow out of your hand. To start with it was used by merchants as a note of forwarding tax payments. Real paper money backed by deposited money started in the 10th century | 12 | |
| 14720831660 | Junks | Large Chinese sailing ships especially designed for long-distance travel during the Tang and Song dynasties | 13 | |
| 14720831661 | Theravada | Major form of Buddhism prevalent in Sri Lanka (Ceylon), Myanmar (Burma), Thailand, Cambodia, and Laos. The name literally means the Way of the Elders and is so named because of its strict adherence to the original teachings and rules of monastic discipline expounded by the Buddha. | 14 | |
| 14720831662 | Sati | Custom in Hinduism of a higher caste widow throwing herself on the funeral pyre of her husband. | 15 | |
| 14720831663 | Rajput Kingdoms | Patrilineal clans that rose to prominence during the 6th to 12th centuries in large parts of India and some parts of Pakistan. Several of them played a significant role in many regions of central and northern India until the 20th century. | 16 | |
| 14720831664 | Neoconfucianism | A philosophy that blended Confucianism with Buddhism and Daoism. | 17 | |
| 14720831665 | Monsoon | In Asia, a seasonal wind that brings warm, moist air from the oceans in the summer and cooler, dry air from inland in winter. | 18 | |
| 14720831666 | Monasticism | The mode of life pertaining to persons living in seclusion from the world, under religious vows and subject to a fixed rule, such as monks, friars, and nuns. Some Buddhists and Christians continue the practice. | 19 |
