| A | B |
|---|
| Hangzhou | the capital of the Song dynasty |
| warlord | a military leader who runs a government |
| monastery | a place where Buddhist nuns or monks lived |
| Neo-Confucianism | the official philosophy of the Song dynasty |
| Wu | the only woman in Chinese history to rule the country on her own |
| Wendi | the general who founded the Sui dynasty |
| civil service exam system | a reform during the Tang dynasty that choose government officials on merit |
| Buddhism | a philosophy that spread from India to China and later Korea and Japan |
| scholar-officials | a wealthy class of men who held government jobs |
| Korea | a country North East of China |
| economy | an organized way in which people produce, sell, and purchase things |
| reforms | changes designed to make improvements |
| Tang Dynasty | Chinese dynasty from AD 616-AD 907 |
| Song Dynasty | Chinese dynasty from AD 960-AD 1279 |
