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| 14952123944 | filial piety | In Confucian thought, one of the virtues to be cultivated, a love and respect for one's parents and ancestors and superiors. | 0 | |
| 14952129640 | Syncretism | A blending of two or more cultural traditions (languages, religions, music, etc.) | 1 | |
| 14952146498 | Champa Rice | a quick-maturing, drought resistant rice originally from Vietnam, that was introduced to China and increased their population | 2 | |
| 14952164896 | Marco Polo | Venetian merchant and traveler. His accounts of his travels to China offered Europeans a firsthand view of Asian lands and stimulated interest in Asian trade. | 3 | |
| 14952167861 | Flying Money | In China, the earliest form of paper money | 4 | |
| 14952183547 | Neo-Confucianism | A philosophy that emerged in Song-dynasty China; it combined Confucian thinking with Buddhist and Daoist beliefs | 5 | |
| 14952200860 | Grand Canal | A canal linking northern and southern China which helped increase trade | 6 | |
| 14952209522 | Empress Wu | the only woman to rule China in her own name, expanded the empire and supported Buddhism during the Tang Dynasty. | 7 | |
| 14952228048 | legalism | Chinese philosophy that people were bad by nature and needed to be controlled by a tough leader with harsh laws | 8 | |
| 14952233055 | Mandate of Heaven | Chinese belief that emperors were given the right to rule from a divine power | 9 | |
| 14952258620 | Zen Buddhism | Known as Chan Buddhism in China; stressed meditation and the appreciation of natural and artistic beauty | 10 | |
| 14952295614 | kowtow | a former Chinese custom of bowing down and touching the ground with the forehead as a sign of respect or submission | 11 | |
| 14952300711 | tribute system | payment made by one nation to another in acknowledgment of submission | 12 | |
| 14952319055 | Ashoka | a ruler of the Mauryan Empire who converted to Buddhism and believed in religious tolerance | 13 | |
| 14952323015 | civil service exam | in China, a test given to qualify candidates for positions in the government | 14 | |
| 14952364851 | Muhammad | Founder of Islam | 15 | |
| 14952364852 | Caliphate | Islamic empire ruled by those believed to be the successors to the Prophet Muhammad. | 16 | |
| 14958700493 | Dar al-Islam | an Arabic term that means the "house of Islam" and that refers to lands under Islamic rule | 17 | |
| 15118988237 | Mansa Musa | Emperor of the kingdom of Mali in Africa. He made a famous pilgrimage to Mecca and established trade routes to the Middle East. | 18 | |
| 15118991993 | Tenochtitlan | Capital of the Aztec Empire, located on an island in Lake Texcoco. Its population was about 150,000 on the eve of Spanish conquest. Mexico City was constructed on its ruins. | 19 | |
| 15118995242 | Swahili city-states | city states that dominated Indian Ocean trade along the east African coast | 20 | |
| 15119004572 | labor tax | system of paying taxes through physical labor such as repairing roads or building bridges, rather than paying with money | 21 |
