Vocab Chapter 11 Flashcards
Inner and East Asia, 400-1200
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| 126857592 | Grand Canal | linking Yellow river with the Yangzi | 0 | |
| 126857593 | Li Shimin | emperor that extended his power primarily westward into Inner Asia | 1 | |
| 126857594 | Tang Empire | Empire unifying China and part of Central Asia | 2 | |
| 126857595 | tributary system | a type of political relationship dating from Han times by which independent countries acknowledged the Chinese emperor's supremacy | 3 | |
| 126857596 | bubonic plague | a bacterial disease of fleas that can be transmitted by flea bites to rodents and humans | 4 | |
| 126857597 | Tibet | country centered on the high, mountain-bounded plateau north of India | 5 | |
| 126857598 | Uighur | a new Turkish group | 6 | |
| 126857599 | Song Empire | third state located in the center of China | 7 | |
| 126857600 | Junk | China's oceangoing ship | 8 | |
| 126857601 | gunpowder | used to propel clusters of flaming arrows | 9 | |
| 126857602 | Neo-Confucianism | used for Song and later versions of Confucian thought | 10 | |
| 126857603 | Zen | Chan Buddhism | 11 | |
| 126857604 | movable type | allowed for cheaper printing of many kinds of informative books and of test material | 12 | |
| 126857605 | Shamanism | belief in the ability of certain individuals to contact ancestors in the invisible spiritual world | 13 | |
| 126857606 | Koryo | Korean kingdom founded in 918 and destroyed by a Mongol invasion in 1259 | 14 | |
| 126857607 | Fujiwara | a family of priest, bureaucrats, and warriors who had succeeded the Soga clan in influence | 15 | |
| 126857608 | Kamakura Shogunate | first three demineralization military governments | 16 | |
| 126857609 | Champa rice | Quick-maturing rice that can allow two harvests in one growing season | 17 |