AP World History Ch. 10 Flashcards
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| 3421575826 | Li Shimin | on of the founders of the Tang Empire and its second Emperor | 0 | |
| 3421575827 | Tang Empire | Empire unifying China and part of Central Asia | 1 | |
| 3421575828 | Grand Canal | 1,100 mi long waterway linking the Yellow River and the Yangzi Rivers | 2 | |
| 3421575829 | tributary system | a system in which defeated peoples were forced to pay a tax in the form of goods & labor | 3 | |
| 3421575830 | bubonic plague | a bacterial disease of fleas that can be transmitted by flea bites to rodents & humans | 4 | |
| 3421575831 | Uighurs | a group of Turkic-speakers who controlled their own centralized empire from 744-840 in Mongolia & Central Asia | 5 | |
| 3421575832 | Tibit | country centered on the high/mt-bounded PMA plateau both of India | 6 | |
| 3421575833 | Song Empire | Empire in southern & central China (1127-1279) | 7 | |
| 3421575834 | junk | a large flat-bottom sailing ship designed for long-distance commercial trade | 8 | |
| 3421575835 | gunpowder | a mixture of saltpeter/sulfur/and charcoal in various ways | 9 | |
| 3421575836 | neo - Confucianism | teen used to describe new approaches to understanding classic Confucian texts that became the basic ruling philosophy of China | 10 | |
| 3421575837 | Zen | the Japanese word for a branch of Mahayana Buddhism based on highly disciplined meditation | 11 | |
| 3421575838 | movable type | type in which each individual character is cat on a separate piece of metal | 12 | |
| 3421575839 | Koryo | Korean kingdom founded in 918 & destroyed by a Mongol invasion in 1259 | 13 | |
| 3421575840 | Kamakura Shogunate | the first of Japan's decentralized military governments | 14 | |
| 3421575841 | Fuijwara | aristocratic family that dominated the Japanese imperial court | 15 | |
| 3421575842 | Champa rice | quick-maturing rice that can allow two harvests in one growing season | 16 |