Global History 9 East Asia Civilizations

Terms	Definitions
Genghiz Khan	Mongol leader who united the nomads of Central Asia and overran lands from China to Eastern Europe in the 1200s
Kublai Khan	Mongolian emperor of China and grandson of Genghis Khan who completed his grandfather's conquest of China (he establish the Yuan dynasty and built a great capital on the site of modern Beijing where he received Marco Polo (1216-1294) )
Marco Polo	Italian traveler who explored Asia in the 13th century and served Kublai Khan (1254-1324)
Porcelain	ceramic ware made of a more or less translucent ceramic
Pagoda	Buddhist temples with many-storied towers; this was adapted from the Chinese
Tributary State	independet state that has to acknowledge the supremacy of another state and pay tribute to him
Grand Canal	an inland waterway 1000 miles long in eastern China
Song Dynasty	the imperial dynasty of China from 960 to 1279 (noted for art and literature and philosophy)
Tang Dynasty	the imperial dynasty of China from 618 to 907 (dynasty often referred to as China's Golden age)
Zheng He	1405 Zheng He commanded the first of seven expeditions. Goal was to spread trade and collect tribute from lesser powers across the western seas.
Peninsula	land surrounded by water on three sides
Dynastic Cycle	rise and fall of Chinese dynasties according to the Mandate of Heaven
Golden Age	any period (sometimes imaginary) of great peace and prosperity and happiness
archipeligo	an area of closely grouped islands
Shilla	early Korean Kingdom that united the Korean peninsula with Tang impress Wu Zhao;s hepl and became the first dynasty
Koryo	Korean kingdom founded in 918 and destroyed by a Mongol invasion in 1259.
Choson	Earlist Korean kingdom; conquered by Han emperor in 109 BCE
Shinto	the ancient indigenous religion of Japan lacking formal dogma-characterized by a veneration of nature spirits and of ancestors
Korean bridge	The term given to process in which cultural diffusion occurred between China and Japan though Korean contact with both civilizations
kana	Japanese system of writing with simplified Chinese characters that are used phonetically
shogun	a hereditary military dictator of Japan-the shoguns ruled Japan until the revolution of 1867-68
daimyo	Japanese feudal lord who commanded a private army of samurai
samurai	a Japanese warrior who was a member of the feudal military aristocracy
bushido	traditional code of the Japanese samurai which stressed courage and loyalty and self-discipline and simple living
kabuki	a type of Japanese drama in which music, dance and mime are used to present stories
haiku	a japanese poem form that is composed of 3 lines of 5,7,5 (consonants)
Tokugawa	A powerful family in Japan that ruled as shoguns, 1603-1867, characterized by a samurai ruling class, urbanization, and the growth of a merchant class. Top-down approaches worked to solve environmental problems.
Zen	a Buddhist doctrine that enlightenment can be attained through direct intuitive insight