| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Grand Canal | Canal; Sui Dynasty starts; 1200 miles long; north/south |
| Chang'an | capital during T'ang Dynasty; end of the Silk Roads; one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world at this time |
| Canton | port city |
| Empress Wu | only women to take the title of Emperor;T'ang Dynasty |
| Li Bo | poet, T'ang Dynasty; wrote about simple things, home and nature |
| Landscape painting | on silk of parchment; long & narrow, mostly black and white; Sung Dynasty |
| Neo-Confucianism | incorporated Buddhism and Taoism ideas with Confucianism; Zhu Xi, founder/ Sung Dynasty |
| Khanate | interlocking Mongol empires, a region of Mongol Empire, having its own leader ,or khan, and government |
| Marco Polo | trader and explorer who introduced Europe to China; took a more accepting view on Mongol China than most; favored by Khubilai Khan |
| Cheng Ho | admiral, diplomat, and explorer during China's Ming dynasty. |
| printing | pressing paper against large wooden blocks covered in ink |
| Yuan Dynasty | established by Kublai Khan and the Mongols |
| Temujin | The Mongol leader who led the Mongols to take over the Chinese, Muslims, and some of the Europeans (this is the name he was born with, not the one he took). |
| Khubilai Khan | Last of the Mongol Great Khans; founder of the Yuan Empire |
| Ming Hongwu | founder on Ming empire; an upholder of the traditional order |
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