Post Classical Essential Terms Part 2.1

a member of a prominent north Chinese noble family; he later seized control through his daughter from his son-in-law

title granted to students who passed the most difficult chinese exam over Chinese literature. Became dignitaries and were eligible for high office.

founder of Qin Kingdom that suceeded the Liao in northern China; annexed most of the Yellow River Basin and forced Song to flee South

Chinese ships equipped w/ water tight bullheads, stern post rudders, compasses and bamboo fenders; dominated asian seas east of Malayan peninsula

• Chinese credit instrument that provided credit vouchers to merchants to be redeemed at the end of the voyage
• reduced robbery,
• early form of money

• Capital of Tang dynasty; 2 mil pop
• larger than any city at the time

• Capital city of Japan under Yamato rulers (Kyoto)
• Built to escape Buddhist monk influence
• Patterened after Chinese imperial centers
• Never fully Popluated

• mounted troops of the Bushi
• Loyal to local lords, not emperor

military government established by the Minamoto following Gempei Wars, Centered of Kamakura, retained emperors, BUT power remained in goverment and samurai

military leader of bakufu

warlord ruler of 300 small states following Onin war and disruption of Ashinago Shogunate; holdings consoldated into unified and bounded ministates

• earliest Korean Kingdom
• conquered by Han emperor 109 BCE

• extendive adoption of Chinese culture in other regions
• typical of Korea & Japan BUT less Vietnam

• Independant Korean kingdom in south eastern part of Peninsula
• Defeated Koguryo along with their Chinese Tang allies, submitted as a vassal of Tang empire and tribute payment
• Ruled united Korea

• Rival vietnamese dynasty that arose in nortern vietnam to challenge traditional dynasty of Trinh in the north at Hanoi kingdom centered on red and mekong rivers
• Capital at Hue

• Leaders of the frequent peasant rebellion in Vietnam against Chinese rule
• 39 CE
• emphasized importance of Vietnamese women in indigenious society

• Born 1170s after death of Kabul Khan
• Elected khagan of all Mongol tribes in 1206
• Conquered northern kingdoms of China
• died 1227 before conquest Islamic world

capital of Mongol empire under Chinggis Khan

• Ruler of Golden Hordes
• One of Chinggis Khan's grandsons
• Respnsible for invasion Russia 1236

• Third son Chinggis Khan
• Sucedded Chinggis Khan as khagan of Mongols after father's death

One of the four regional subdivisions of the Mongol Empire after Chinggis Khan died, located in todays south central Russia