Chapter 8 Ways of the World Review
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| 5282510485 | Kami | Sacred spirits of Japan, whether ancestors or natural phenomena their worship much later came to be called Shinto |  | 0 |
| 5282510486 | Foot Binding | Chinese practice of tightly wrapping girls' feet to keep them small |  | 1 |
| 5282510487 | Neo-Confucianism | A philosophy that emerged in Song-Dynasty China; it revived Confucian thinking while adding in Buddhist and Daoist elements |  | 2 |
| 5282510488 | Murasaki Shikibu | Perhaps Japan's greatest author, a woman active at the Heian court who is best known for the Tale of Genji, which she wrote around 1000 CE |  | 3 |
| 5282510489 | Tribute System | Chinese method of dealing with foreign lands and people that assumed the subordination of all non-Chinese authorities and required the payment of tribute--produce of value from their countries--to the Chinese emperor |  | 4 |
| 5282510490 | Sui Dynasty | Ruling dynasty of Chine (581-618) that effectively reunited the country after several centuries of political fragmentation |  | 5 |
| 5282510491 | Samurai | Members of Japan's warrior class, which developed as political power became increasingly decentralized |  | 6 |
| 5282510492 | Nara | Japan's first captial city, modeled on the Chinese capital of Chang'an |  | 7 |
| 5282510493 | Uighurs | Turkic empire of the steppes; flourished in the eighth century CE |  | 8 |
| 5282510494 | Yi | Korean Dynasty (1392-1910) |  | 9 |
| 5282510495 | Tang Dynasty | Ruling dynasty of China from 618 to 907; noted for it openess foreign cultural influence |  | 10 |
| 5282510496 | Jurchen | A nomadic people who established a state that included parts of northern China (1115-1234) |  | 11 |
| 5282510497 | Silla Dynasty | The first ruling dynasty to bring a measure of political unity to the Korean peninsula |  | 12 |
| 5282510498 | Song Dynasty Economic Revolution | A major ecomonic quickening that took place in China under the Song dynasty (960-1279); marked by rapid population growth, urbanization, economic specialization, the development of an immense network in industrial production and innovation | 13 | |
| 5282510499 | Heian | Japan's second captial city (now known as Kyoto), modeled on the Chinese captial of Chang'an |  | 14 |
| 5282510500 | Trung Sisters | Two Vietnamese sisters who launched a major revolt against the Chinese presence in Vietnam in 39 CE |  | 15 |
| 5282510501 | The Grand Canal | Connected Yangsee and Yellow rivers, good for trade, brought in faster growing rice |  | 16 |
