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| nomad | a person who moves from place to place |
| Confucianism | a belief system based on the ideas of Confucius, a scholar who taught moral virtues and ethics |
| Buddhism | a religion that started in India based on Siddhartha Gautama's teachings |
| Daoism | A belief system originated in China around 500BC that emphasized harmony with nature and with inner feelings |
| reunify | bring a group together after it has been divided |
| imperial | related to an empire |
| bureaucracy | a government that is divided into departments |
| scholar-official | an educated person with a government position |
| wood-block printing | a printing system that developed in China using wood block carved with enough characters to print entire pages |
| movable type | a small block of metal or wood with a single raised character, used for printing texts. |
| Porcelain | a hard white ceramic material, often called china |
| Genghis Khan | a Mongol leader who united the Mongol tribes around A.D. 1206 and began a campaign of conquest, forging an empire that covered northern China. |
| Kublai Khan | grandson of Genghis Khan who took power in southern China in A.D. 1260 and defeated the Song army in 1279 giving the Mongols control over all of China. |
| Mongol Ascendancy | the period in which the Mongols controlled all of Central Asia, making overland trade and travel safe. |
| Marco Polo | trader from Venice, Italy who traveled the Silk Road to China and stayed for 17 years. |
| Forbidden City | a group of walled palaces built for the Chinese emperor shortly after A.D. 1400 in the capital city of Beijing. |
| maritime | relating to the sea |
| tribute | a payment made by one country to another as a sign of respect. |
| Zheng He | a Chinese admiral whose extensive voyages between A.D. 1405 and 1433 greatly expanded China's foreign trade and reputation. |
| Manchu | a member of a northeastern Chinese people who conquered China in A.D. 1644 and began the last dynasty in Chinese history, called the Qing Dynasty. |
