AP World History : Chapter 13 Flashcards

5872223536	Taika reforms	Attempt to remake the Japanese monarch into an absolutist Chinese-style emperor and the Han-Tang era; included attempts to create professional bureaucracy and peasant conscript army. Began around 646	0
5872223537	Tale of Genji	Written by Lady Murasaki; first novel in any language; evidence for mannered style of Japanese society. Described the imperial court at Heian.	1
5872223538	Fujiwara	Mid-9th-century Japanese aristocratic family; exercised exceptional influence over imperial affairs; aided in decline of imperial power.	2
5872223539	Bushi	Regional warrior leaders in Japan; ruled small kingdoms from fortresses; administered the law, supervised public works projects, and collected revenues; built up private armies. During the period of the Bushi, combat often depended on man-to-man struggles between champions typical of heroic warfare	3
5872223540	Samurai	Mounted troops of the bushi; loyal to local lords, not the emperor	4
5872223541	Seppuku	Ritual suicide in Japan; also known as hari-kiri; demonstrated courage and was a means to restore family honor	5
5872223542	Gempei wars	Waged for five years from 1180 on Honshu between the Taira and Minamoto families; ended in destruction of the Taira. Signaled the beginning of the Japanese feudal age	6
5872223543	Bakufu	Military government established by the Minamoto after the Gempei Wars; centered at Kamakura; retained emperor, but real power resided in military government and samurai	7
5872223544	Shoguns	Military leaders of the bakufu	8
5872223545	Daimyo	Warlord rulers of small states following Onin War	9
5872223546	Ashikaga Shogunate	holdings consolidated into unified and bounded ministates.	10
5872223547	Choson	Earliest Korean kingdom; conquered by the Han in 109 B.C.E.	11
5872223548	Sinification	Extensive adaptation of Chinese culture in other regions. Japan began the process in the 5th and 6th centuries CE	12
5872223549	Silla	Korean kingdom in the Southeast; became a vassal of the Tang and paid tribute; ruled Korea from 668	13
5872223550	Trung sisters	Leaders of a rebellion in Vietnam against Chinese rule in 39 C.E.; demonstrates importance of women in Vietnamese society	14
5872223551	Nguyen	Southern Vietnamese dynasty with capital at Hue that challenged northern Trinh dynasty with center at Hanoi.	15
5872223552	Kami	Nature spirits of Japan	16
5872223553	Taira	Powerful Japanese family in 11th and 12th centuries; competed with Minamoto family; defeated after Gempei Wars.	17
5872223554	Minamoto	Defeated the rival Taira family in Gempei Wars and established military government in 12th-century Japan	18
5872223555	Tribute system	System in which people surrounding China sent emissaries who offered tribute to the Chinese emperor and acknowledged the superiority of the emperor and China.	19
5872223556	Trinh	Dynasty that ruled in north Vietnam at Hanoi, 1533 to 1772; rivals of Nguyen family in South	20
5872223557	Hue	Capital of the Nguyen Southern Vietnamese Dynasty	21