| A | B |
|---|
| Tang Taizong | Began Achievments of the Tang Dynasty |
| Wu Zhao | woman empress of China |
| movable type | individual blocks for printing a page |
| gentry | upper class of scholar-officials |
| pastoralist | nomads who herded domesticated animals |
| clan | nomad kinship groups |
| Genghis Khan | "universal ruler" who united the Mongols |
| Kublai Khan | emperor of the Yuan Dynasty |
| Marco Polo | Italian trader who served Kublai Khan |
| Shinto | Japan's "way of the gods" religion |
| samurai | a bodyguard of loyal warriors |
| Bushido | Samurai code - "way of the warrior" |
| shogun | "supreme general of the emperor's army" |
| Khmer Empire | main power in mainland Southeast Asia |
| Angkor Wat | A Khmer symbolic mountain dedicated to the Hindu god Vishnu |
| Koryu Dynasty | Korean Dynasty |
