AP Study Guide Vocab
223038427 | Grand Canal | facilitated communication and trade with growing pop centers. linked yellow river in North china with Yangzi river South china | 0 | |
223038428 | Tang Empire | Created 618 expanded westward into central asia | 1 | |
223038429 | Tributary System | indpendent countries embassies to the capital to pay tribute | 2 | |
223038430 | Uigurs | new turkic group that controlled much of central asia | 3 | |
223038431 | Song Empire | established 960 in central china | 4 | |
223038432 | Junks | stern-mounted rudder improved steering of large ships in uneasy seas. keep them afloat in emergencies | 5 | |
223038433 | Gunpowder | used to propel cluster if flaming arrows into oncoming cavalry | 6 | |
223038434 | Shamanism | belief in the ability of certain individuals to make direct contact with ancestors and invisible spirit world | 7 | |
223038435 | Koryo | Korean peninsula was united under Koryo ruling house after the fall of the Tang in early 900s | 8 | |
223038436 | Footbinding | Women bound their feet to look like the lotus flower. In mens eyes it was beutiful | 9 | |
223038437 | Movable type | China benifited from Korea's expirements with this | 10 | |
223038438 | Kamakura Shogunate | the 1st of 3 decentralized military regimes of Japan | 11 | |
223038439 | Champa Rice | fast maturing rice of the regionsnet by champa to song as tribute | 12 | |
223045694 | Bubonic Plague | A bacterial disease of fleas that can be transmitted by flea bites to rodents and humans | 13 | |
223046534 | Chang'an | City in West Valley on eastern China | 14 | |
223049968 | Zen | The Japanese word for a branch of Mahayana Buddhism based on highly disciplined meditation | 15 | |
223069171 | Shinto | Early Japanese clans honored kami, or nature spirirts. This worship of the forces of nature became known as Shinto, meaning "the way of the gods" | 16 |