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Ashikaga Takuaji: Member of Minamoto Family; overthrew the Kamakura regime and established the Ashikaga Shogunate from 1336 - 1573; drove emperor from Kyoto to Yoshino
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Bafuku--Shoguns: military government established by the Minamoto following the Gempei Wars; centered at Kamakura; obtained emperor, but real power resided in military government and samurai
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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
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Choson: earliest Korean kingdom; conquered by Han emperor in 109 BCE
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Daimyo: warlord rulers of 300 small kingdoms following Onin War and disruption of Ashikaga Shogunate, holdings consolidated into unified and bounded mini-states
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Fujiwara: ruling family in the 11th century where the central government power began to fall and feudal landowners began to dominate lands, the countryside was lawless and very dangerous at the time
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Heian: capital city of Japan under the Yamato emperors, later called Kyoto, built in order to escape the influence of Buddhist monks, patterned after ancient imperial centers of China, never fully populated
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Hojo: Warrior family closely allied with Minamoto; dominated Kamakura Regime and manipulated Minamoto Rulers; claimed the rule in name of emperor at Kyoto
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Khmers and Chams: Indianized rivals of Vietnamese, moved into Mekong River delta region at time of Vietnamese drive to South Indianized rivals of the Vietnamese, driven into the highlands by the successful Vietnamese drive to the South
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Koguryo: tribal people of Northern Korea; established an independent kingdom in the northern half of the peninsula, adopted cultural sinification
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Minamoto: defeated the rival Taira family in Gempei wars (5 years from 1180) and established military government (Bafuku) in 12th century Japan
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Nguyen: rival Vietnamese dynasty that rose in Southern Vietnam to challenge traditional dynasty of Trinh in North at Hanoi, kingdom centered on Red and Mekong Rivers, capital at Hue
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Onin War: War between rival heirs of Ashikaga Shogunate; fought between 1467- 1477; led to warfare between rival headquarters and Kyoto and destruction of old capital
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Samurai: Japanese warrior who was a member of feudal military aristocracy
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Seppuku: ritual suicide or disembowelment in Japan; commonly known in West as hara-kiri, demonstrated courage and a means to restore family honor
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Silla: independent Koread kingdom in Southeastern part of peninsula; defeated Koguryo along with their Chinese Tang allies, submitted as a vassal of teh Tang emperor and agreed to tribute payment; ruled united Korea by 668
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Sinification: extensive adaptation of Chinese culture in other regions; typical of Korea and Japan, less typical of Vietnam
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Taika reforms: attempt to make Japanese monarch into an absolute Chinese-style emperor, included attempts to create professional bureaucracy and peasant conscript army
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Taira: Powerful Japanese Family in 11-12th centuries; competed with the Minamota family; defeated after Gempei Wars.
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Tale of Genji: written by Lady Murasaki, first novel of Japanese and World Literature, relatives life history of prominent and amorous son of the Japanese emperor; evidence for mannered style of Japanese society
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Tribute System: System in which countries in East and Southeast Asia not under direct control of empires based in China nevertheless enrolled as tributary states, acknowledging the superiority of the emperors in China, paying taxes in form of goods or labor
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Trinh: Dynasty that ruled in North Vietnam at Hanoi, 1533 - 1772, rivals of the Nguyen family in the South
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Trung Sisters: leaders of one of the frequent peasant rebellions against the Chinese in Vietnam; revolt broke out in 39 CE, shows importance of Vietnamese women in indigenous society
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Yi Dynasty: Korean dynasty that opened schools and made Neo-Confucianism the state doctrine in Hanyang, ruled after mongols were driven out in 1392
