| A | B |
| Tiananmen Square | massacre |
| Mao Zedong | communist leader |
| Great Wall | unified China |
| dynasty | ruling system of china |
| Mandate of Heaven | allowed dynasty to rule |
| Gandhi | moral leader of India |
| Pakistan | Islamic nation next to India |
| India | huge nation in Asia |
| Hinduism | polytheistic religion |
| Confucius | five relationships |
| bushido | way of the warrior |
| samarai | japanese warrior knights |
| Sound of Waves | Mishima book about Shinji and Hatsue |
| Ganges River | sacred river in India |
| Himalayan Mountains | isolated India |
| Hindu Kush Mountains | mountains of Afghanistan |
| Great Leap Forward | Mao's economic program |
| Long March | Mao struggle versus Nationalists |
| Cultural Revolution | Mao's idea to restart revolution with new generation |
| Buddhism | 4 noble truths |
| Siddhartha Guatama | original Buddha |
| Shintoism | Japanese - the way of the gods |
| Communism | Mao's ideology |
| Islam | 5 Pillars/Muhammad |
| Boxer Rebellion | fists of righteous harmony |
| Opium War | British war vs. China |
| ideograph | Chinese writing |
| Taoism | the natural way |
| natural way | Taoism |
| filial piety | duty/respect of parents |
| dowry | price to marry daughter |
| Silk road | trade route through western China |
| kowtow | to bow low |
| extraterritorality | criminals could be tried in own courts, not China's |
| Sun Yatsen | 3 Principles of the People |
| Hokkaido | northern Japanese Island |
| Honshu | central Japanese island |
| shogun | chief general of army |
| selective borrowing | Japanese form of cultural diffusion |
| kana | Japanese writing |