| A | B |
| archipelagos | chains of islands |
| animism | the idea that spirits inhabit living & nonliving things |
| Ramayana | Indian epics that were interwoven with Southeast Asia stories |
| the Khmer | established a Hindu-Buddhist empire |
| Suryavarman II | the Khmer kingdom reached its height under this king |
| Angkor Wat | a temple complex & astronomical observatory |
| dinh | spirit house built in each Vietnamese village |
| Vietnam | adopted Chinese religions & beliefs |
| Ngo Quyen | defeated Chinese warships in the Battle of the Bach Dang River |
| the Trung | two Vietnamese sisters clad in armor & riding atop elephants |
| Pagan | capital city of the Tibeto-Burmans |
| Sukhothai | where the Thai established their first kingdom |
| Ramkhaeng | greatest Sukhothai monarch |
| Ramathibodi | overthrew the last Sukhothai ruler & founded Ayutthaya kingdom |
| Melaka | port kingdom on the southwestern coast of Malay Peninsula |