China
In China, a method of breaking and binding women’s feet; seen as a sign of beauty and social position, ___________also confined women to the household
Footbinding
A Japanese feudal lord in charge of an army of samurai
Daimyo
Pertaining to a social system in which the father is the head of the family
Patriarchal
A blend of two or more cultures or cultural traditions.
Syncretism
A series of rulers from the same family
Dynasty
Large Chinese sailing ship especially designed for long-distance travel during the Tang and Song dynasties
Junk
Quick-maturing, drought resistant rice that can allow two harvests of sixty days each in one growing season.
Champa Rice
The “divine wind” credited by the Japanese with preventing the Mongol invasion of Japan during the thirteenth century
Kamikaze
The custom of higher castes of Hinduism of a widow throwing herself on the funeral pyre of her husband
Sati
The mode of life pertaining to persons living in seclusion from the world, under religious vows and subject to a fixed rule, as monks, friars, nuns, or in general as religious.
Monasticism
A group of government officials headed by an administrator.
Bureaucracy
In Asia, a seasonal wind that brings warm, moist air from the oceans in the summer and cooler, dry air from inland in winter.
Monsoon
Paper money that was first used in China in the 9th century AD
Flying Money
Japanese military leaders under the bakufu
The rule of the shoguns
Shogun
Patrilineal clans that rose to prominence during the 6th to 12th centuries in large parts of India and some parts of Pakistan. Several Rajput-ruled kingdoms played a significant role in many regions of central and northern India until the 20th century.
Rajput Kingdoms
Collection of Buddhist traditions (I.e. Zen, Pure Land, Nichiren, and Tibetan) that teach anyone can aspire to achieve awakening and thereby become a bodhisattva (a potential buddha).
Mahayana
In China, respect for one’s parents and other elders
Filial Piety
Southeast Asian sailors who traveled the Indian Ocean; by 500 C.E., they had colonized Madagascar, introducing the cultivation of the banana
Malay Sailors
The concept developed by the Zhou dynasty that the deity granted a dynasty the right to rule and took away that right if the dynasty did not rule wisely
Mandate of Heaven
The Japanese formal language term for ritual suicide.Only the samurai class was allowed to commit________
Seppuku
A medieval movement in Hinduism that emphasized the mutual intense emotional attachment and love of a devotee toward a personal god and of the god for the devotee
Bhakti Movement
Form of Buddhism that combines the essential teachings of Mahayana Buddhism with Tantric and Shamanic, and material from an ancient Tibetan religion called Bon. Practices feature rituals and spiritual practices such as the use of mantras and yogic techniques
Tibetan
The Mongol led dynasty of China from 1271 to 1368
Yuan Dynasty
One of the most celebrated Islamic scholars that contributed to astronomy, law, logic, ethics, mathematics, philosophy, and medicine; his work laid the groundwork for making trigonometry a separate subject.
Title granted to students who passed the most difficult Chinese examination on all of Chinese literature; became immediate dignitaries and eligible for high office
Jinshi
The code of honor of the samurai of Japan
Bushido
Muslim dynasties that existed between the 13th and 16th centuries. mainly confined to the northern part of India, though at its peak, it was in control of much of the Indian subcontinent
Delhi Sultanate
The traditional Japanese religion based on veneration of ancestors and spirits of nature
Shinto
Ritual practice that is based on the belief that deceased family members have a continued existence, take an interest in the affairs of the world, and possess the ability to influence the fortune of the living.
Ancestor Veneration
Powerful state in South East Asia, formed by people of the same name, lasting from 802 CE to 1431 CE. At its peak, the empire covered much of what today is Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, and southern Vietnam
Khmer Empire
Series of waterways in eastern and northern China built to enable successive Chinese regimes to transport surplus grain from the agriculturally rich Yangtze (Chang) and Huai river valleys to feed the capital cities and large standing armies in northern China.
Grand Canal
A military government established in Japan in which the emperor became a figurehead, while real power was concentrated in the military with the shogun and samurai.
Bakufu
Major form of Buddhism prevalent in Sri Lanka (Ceylon), Myanmar (Burma), Thailand, Cambodia, and Laos. Theravada literally means the Way of the Elders and is so named because of its strict adherence to the original teachings and rules of monastic discipline expounded by the Buddha
Theravada
A philosophy that blended Confucianism with Buddhism and Daoism
Neo-Confuciansim
Sufi poet and mystic who may be the most prolific female Muslim writer before the 20th century; her best-known work was a poem honoring the prophet Muhammad while many of her works describe her journey toward mystical illumination
A'ishah al-Ba'uniyyah