East China Vocabulary

A movement in religious philosophy derived from Confucianism in China around AD 1000 in response to the ideas of Taoism and Buddhism.

A political entity ruled by a khan, khagan, khatun, or khanum

 A historiographical term modelled after the original phrase Pax Romana which describes the stabilizing effects of the conquests of the Mongol Empire on the social, cultural and economic life of the inhabitants of the vast Eurasian territory that the Mongols conquered in the 13th and 14th centuries.

The hereditary military dictatorship of Japan (1192–1867)

Japan's indigenous religion

The code of honor and morals developed by the Japanese samurai.

Chinese custom of applying tight wrappings to the feet of young girls to modify their shape and size. It has been estimated that by the 19th century, 40–50% of all Chinese women may have had bound feet.

A quick-maturing, drought resistant rice that can allow two harvests, of sixty days each in one growing season. 

Goryeo was a Korean kingdom founded in 918, during a time of national division called the Later Three Kingdoms period, that unified and ruled the Korean Peninsula until 1392.