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| Arthrasastra | A book written during the Mauyran Empire in India by a priest named Kautilya; it told how to rule an empire |
| Gupta Empire | This famous Indian empire was known for its sponsorship of the arts |
| Asoka | famous Mauyran Empire ruler in India who converted to Buddhism and promoted religious toleration |
| Silk Road | India profited as a middleman due to its location close to this |
| Himalayas | these mountains border India to the north |
| stupas | dome shaped buildings that house Buddhist relics |
| Arabic numerals | what we call our number system that came from India |
| Mahayana Buddhism | this form of Buddhism was meant to be more of a mass religion for the ordinary people |
| Han Dynasty | This is considered by many to be the most famous dynasty of China |
| Sumo | A form of wrestling found in Japan |
| seppuku | Japanese ritual suicide |
| bushido | the code of honor followed by the samurai in Japan; it still has a strong influence on Japanese culture |
| Kabuki | a form of Japanese drama meant to enterain the people |
| civil service | Begun in China during the Han dynasty; it required government workers to take a test to get their job |
| Iron and salt | During the Han Dynasty, the government had a monopoly on making these |
| patriarchal | A society in which the eldest male dominates the family |
| Wudi | considered the greatest of the Han Dynasty rulers in China |
| Foot binding | a practice done by wealthy women during the Tang and Song Dynasties in China |
| Shinto | A Japanese religion that is animist |
| tsunami | a huge wave generated by an earthquake at sea |
| daimyo | name for the nobles in feudal Japan |
| Mahayana Buddhism | meant as a mass religion to appeal to ordinary people; considered Buddha as a god |
| Theraveda Buddhism | Also known as Hinayana Buddhism; said only monks and nuns could reach Nirvana |
| concept of zero; Arabic numerals | contributions of the Gupta empire in India to mathematics |
| pastoralism | raising herds of animals |
| Chandragupta Mauyra | Founder of the Mauyra empire in India |
| Chandra Gupta I | Founder of the Gupta empire in India |
| Arthrastra | book written by a priest, Kautilya, to advise Chandragupta Mauyra how to run his empire |
| bureacracy | running a government by departments |
| yurt | portable tents used by the Mongols |
| Genghis Khan | means "universal ruler"; leader of the Mongols who established a huge empire |
| Kublai Khan | grandson of Genghis Khan; leader of the Yuan Dynasty in China |
| Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva | the three main gods of Hinduism |
| Zen Buddhism | type of Buddhism practiced in Japan; uses a lot of meditation |
| Commodore Matthew Perry | He opened Japan to trade with the U.S. in 1854 |
| Tokugawa Shogunate | this closed Japan to foreigners in the 1400s. |
| mountains | Japan is nearly 70% covered with these |
| kamikaze | "divine wind"; Japan believed that a typhoon send by the gods saved Japan from Chinese invasions twice in the 1200s. |
| feudalism | economic system in which nobles owe alliegance to a ruler in exchange for land |
| China | this country did much to influence Japanese and Korean culture |
| torii | an entrance to a Japanese Shinto shrine |
| samurai | Japanese soldiers during the feudal era |
| Heian era | a period in Japanese history when the arts were highly supported |
| Noh theater | a form of Japanese drama in which the actors wear heavy wooden masks and they perform on simple sets |
| Taika | era in Japanese history when many reforms were brought to Japan from China |
| shogun | the military ruler in Japan during the feudal period |
| Mount Fuji | a dormant volcano in Japan that is a national symbol |
| earthquakes | because Japan is located on the "rim of fire" they have a lot of these |
| Southeast Asia | Mynamar, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Malaysia are part of this |
| Marco Polo | Italian man who befriended Kublai Khan and brought back to Europe wonderous stories of the Far East |
| Angkor Wat | a huge temple found in Cambodia that was over a mile square |
| porcelain | a glass-like ceramic made by the Chinese that was very valuable |
| Wudi | Han dynasty ruler in China who established the civil service system |
| ocean | Japan relies a great deal on this as a source of food |
| Honshu, Hokkaido, Shikoku, Kyushu | the main Japanese islands |
| archipelago | a nation made up of islands |
| Korea | much of Chinese culture passed through this country to Japan |
| wheelbarrow, magnetic compass, paper, watermills | inventions of the Han Dynasty |
| sumo | Japanese wrestling |
| origami | Japanese art of paper folding |
| Yamato clan | considered to be the founding clan of Japan |
