Definition: Dynasty often referred to as "China's Golden Age". (618 CE - 907 CE)

Significance: China expands to Vietnam, Imperial examination perfected. New technologies (paper money, gunpowder, junks, etc...) through silk road.

Definition: (960 CE - 1279 CE) Started by Tai Zu.

Significance: Million people there. Foot binding, magnetic compass, navy, and traded with India and Persia.

Capital of later Song Dynasty.

Rapid population growth, economic speculation, increase in industrial production and innovations (Song dynasty).

Definition: Practice in Chinese society to mutilate women's feet to make them smaller.

Significance: It was associated with images of female beauty and eroticism.

Chinese method of dealing with foreign lands and people that assumed subordination of all non-chinese authorities. They required all foreigners wanting access to China to pay tribute.

A confederation of nomadic peoples living beyond the northwest frontier of ancient China. HAN Dynasty

Nomadic people who established a state that included parts of Northern China.

First ruling dynasty to bring a measure of political unity to Korean Peninsula.

Phonetic alphabet in Korea (14th century).

The writing system of Vietnam

Japanese statesman who launched the drive to make Japan into centralized bureaucratic state modeled on China.

Definition: "Way of the Warrior".

Significance: A distinct set of values for Samurais.

Japanese poet who had an affair with the two sons of the emperor

Entered China through cultural accommodations.

Sui Emperor who patronized Buddhism.