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City in the Wei Valley in the eastern China; capital of the Qin and early Han Empires
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Chang'an
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1,100-mile waterway linking Yellow River and Yangzi River; begun in tyhe Hun period and completed in Sui empire
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Grand Canal
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followed in China, Japan, and Central Asia;focus on Buddha and bodhisattvas
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Mahayana Buddhism
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first of Japan's decentralized military governments (1185-1333)
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Kamakura Shogunate
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empire unifying China and part of Central Asia (618-907)
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Tang Empire
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country centered on the high, mountain-bounded plateau north of India
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Tibet
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a system in which, from the time of the Han empire, acknowledging the superiority of the emperors in exchange for trading rights or strategic alliances
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Tributary System
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one of the founders of Tang Empire and its second emperor; led the expansion of the empire into Central Asia
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Li Shimin
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a group of Turkic-speakers who controlled their own centralized empire from 744 to 840 in Mongalia and Central Asia
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Uighur
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empire in central and southern China while Liao people controlled the North; distinguished for its advances in technology, medicine and mathematics
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Song Empire
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