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Yuan Empire
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(1271-1368) Empire created in China and Siberia by Khubilai Khan.
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lama
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In Tibetan Buddishm, this is another term for teacher.
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Khubilai Khan
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(1215-1294) Last of the Mongol Great Khans and founder of the Yuan Empire.
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Beijing
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China's northern capital, first used as an imperial capital in 906 and now the capital of the Peope's Republic of China.
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cottage industries
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Weaving, sewing, carving, and other smallscale industries that can be done in the home. The laborers, frequently women, are usually independent.
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Manchuria
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Region of NE Asian peoples who founded the Qing empire.
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Ming Empire
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(1368-1644) Empire based in China that Zhu Yuanzhang established after the overthrow of the Yuan Empire. Ming emperor Yongle sponsored building of FOrbidden City and voyages of Zheng He. Later years of Ming saw slowdown in tech. development and economic decline.
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Yongle
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Reign period of Zhu Di (1360-1424), third emperor of Ming Empire. Sponsored building of Forbidden City (huge encyclopedia project), expeditions of Zheng He, and reopening of China's borders to trade and travel.
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Forbidden City
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The walled section of Beijing where emperors lived between 1121 and 1924. A portion is
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Zheng He
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(1371-1433) An imperial eunuch and Muslim, entrusted by the Ming emperor Yongle with a series of state voyages that took his gigantic ships through the Indian Ocean, from Southeast Asia to Africa.
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technology transfer
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The communication of specific plans, designs, or educational programs necessary for the
use of new technologies from one society or class to another. |
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Yi kingdom
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(1392-1910) The Yi dynasty ruled Korea from the fall of the Koryo kingdom to the
colonization of Korea by Japan. |
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cotton
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The plant that produces fibers from which cotton textiles are woven. Native to India, cotton spread throughout Asian and then to the New World. It has been a major cash crop in various places, including early Islamic Iran, Yi Korea, and nineteenth-century Egypt and the United States. A related species was exploited for fiber in pre-Columbia America.
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kamikaze
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The “divine wind,” which the Japanese credited with blowing Mongol invaders away
from their shores in 1281. |
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Ashikaga Shogunate
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(1336-1573) The second of Japan’s military governments headed by a shogun (a military ruler). Sometimes called the Muromachi Shogunate.
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Champa
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A state formerly located in what is now southern Vietnam. It was hostile to Annam and was annexed by Annam and destroyed as an independent entity in 1500.
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