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14. East Asia
Ap World History - Summerville High School
Term | Definition |
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Taika reforms | attempt to remake Japanese monarch into an absolutist Chinese-style emperor; included attempts to create professional bureaucracy and peasant conscript army. |
Tale of Genji | written by Lady Murasaki; first novel in any language; evidence for mannered style of Japanese society. |
Fujiwara | mid-9th-century Japanese aristocratic family; exercised exceptional influence over imperial affairs; aided in decline of imperial power. |
bushi | regional warrior leaders in Japan; ruled small kingdoms from fortresses; administered the law, supervised public works projects, and collected revenues; built up private armies. |
samurai | mounted troops of the bushi; loyal to local lords, not the emperor. |
seppuku | ritual suicide in Japan; also known as hari-kiri; demonstrated courage and was a means to restore family honor. |
Taira | powerful Japanese family in 11th and 12th centuries; competed with Minamoto family; defeated after Gempei Wars. |
Minamoto | defeated the rival Taira family in Gempei Wars and established military government (bakufu) in 12th-century Japan. |
Gempei wars | waged for five years from 1180 on Honshu between the Taira and Minamoto families; ended in destruction of Taira. |
bakufu | military government established by the Minamoto following Gumpei wars; centered at Kamakura; retained emperor, but real power resided in military government and samurai. |
shoguns | military leaders of the bakufu. |
Hojo | a warrior family closely allied with the Minamoto; dominated Kamakura regime and manipulated Minamoto rulers; ruled in name of emperor. |
Ashikaga Takuaji | member of Minamoto family; overthrew Kamakura regime and established Ashikaga shogunate (1336–1573); drove emperor from Kyoto to Yoshino. |
Ashikaga Shogunate | replaced the Kamakura regime and ruled from 1336 to 1573; destroyed rival Yoshino center of imperial authority. |
daimyos | warlord rulers of small states following Onin war and disruption of Ashikaga shogunate; holdings consolidated into unified and bounded mini-states. |
Choson | earliest Korean kingdom; conquered by Han in 109 B.C.E. |
Koguryo | tribal people of northern Korea; established an independent kingdom in the northern half of the peninsula; adopted cultural Sinification. |
Silla | Korean kingdom in southeast; became a vassal of the Tang and paid tribute; ruled Korea from 668. |
Paekche | independent Korean kingdom in southwestern part of peninsula; defeated by rival Silla kingdom and its Chinese Tang allies in 7th century. |
Sinification | extensive adaptation of Chinese culture in other regions. |
Yi | dynasty (1392–1910); succeeded Koryo dynasty after Mongol invasions; restored aristocratic dominance and Chinese influence. |
Khmers | Indianized Vietnamese peoples defeated by northern government at Hanoi. |
Trung sisters | leaders of a rebellion in Vietnam against Chinese rule in 39 C.E.; demonstrates importance of women in Vietnamese society. |
Chams | Indianized rivals of the Vietnamese; driven into the highlands by the successful Vietnamese drive to the south. |
Nguyen | southern Vietnamese dynasty with capital at Hue that challenged northern Trinh dynasty with center at Hanoi. |
Trinh | dynasty that ruled in north Vietnam at Hanoi, 1533 to 1772; rivals of Nguyen family in south. |