| A | B |
|---|
| Tang Taizong | the Tang emperor who reigned from 627 to 649; began the Tang Dynasty |
| Wu Zhao | Korean empress; only woman to be emperor |
| movable type | a printer could arrange blocks of individual characters in a frame to make up a page for printing |
| gentry | class of powerful, well-to-do people |
| pastoralist | hearded domestic animals |
| clan | kinship groups |
| Genghis Khan | "univeral ruler" of the Mongol clans |
| Kublai Khan | China's emperor who founded the Yuan Dynasty |
| Marco Polo | young Venetian trader; used by Kublai Khan on government missions |
| Shinto | "way of the gods"; Japan's earliest religion |
| samurai | loyal warriors who served as bodyguards to lords; "one who serves" |
| Bushido | "the way of the warrior"; the code the samurai lived by |
| shogun | "supreme general of teh emperor's army"; held powers of a military dictator |
| Khmer Empire | today is Cambodia; main power in the Southeast Asian mainland for centuries |
| Angkor Wat | among the world's greatest architechtural monuments; city-and-temple complex |
| Koryu Dynasty | Dynasty established by rebel officer Wang Kon; lasted from 935 to 1392 |
