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Champa Rice Quick-maturing rice that can allow two harvests
in one growing season. It was later sent to China
as a tribute gift.
Proto-industrialization a set of economic changes in which people in
rural areas made more goods than they could
sell in East Asia
artisan A skilled crafts person
Scholar-gentry in China, a group of people who controlled much
of the land and produced most of the candidates
for civil service
Filial Piety In Confucian thought, one of the virtues to be
cultivated, a love and respect for one's parents
and ancestors.
, Grand Canal The 1,100-mile (1,700-kilometer) waterway linking
the Yellow and the Yangzi Rivers. It was begun in
the Han period and completed during the Sui
Empire.
Song Dynasty During this Chinese dynasty (960 - 1279 AD)
China saw many important inventions. There was
a magnetic compass; had a navy; traded with
India and Persia (brought pepper and cotton);
paper money, gun powder; landscape black and
white paintings
Imperial Bureaucracy Division of an empire into organized provinces to
make it easier to control
Meritocracy government or the holding of power by people
selected on the basis of their ability.
woodblock printing a type of printing in which text is carved into a
block of wood and the block is then coated with
ink and pressed on the page
Foot Binding Practice in Chinese society to mutilate women's
feet in order to make them smaller; produced
pain and restricted women's movement; made it
easier to confine women to the household.
Buddhism Belief system that started in India in the 500s BC.
Happiness can be achieved through removal of
one's desires. Believers seek enlightenment and
the overcoming of suffering.
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Terms in this set (264)
Champa Rice Quick-maturing rice that can allow two harvests
in one growing season. It was later sent to China
as a tribute gift.
Proto-industrialization a set of economic changes in which people in
rural areas made more goods than they could
sell in East Asia
artisan A skilled crafts person
Scholar-gentry in China, a group of people who controlled much
of the land and produced most of the candidates
for civil service
Filial Piety In Confucian thought, one of the virtues to be
cultivated, a love and respect for one's parents
and ancestors.
, Grand Canal The 1,100-mile (1,700-kilometer) waterway linking
the Yellow and the Yangzi Rivers. It was begun in
the Han period and completed during the Sui
Empire.
Song Dynasty During this Chinese dynasty (960 - 1279 AD)
China saw many important inventions. There was
a magnetic compass; had a navy; traded with
India and Persia (brought pepper and cotton);
paper money, gun powder; landscape black and
white paintings
Imperial Bureaucracy Division of an empire into organized provinces to
make it easier to control
Meritocracy government or the holding of power by people
selected on the basis of their ability.
woodblock printing a type of printing in which text is carved into a
block of wood and the block is then coated with
ink and pressed on the page
Foot Binding Practice in Chinese society to mutilate women's
feet in order to make them smaller; produced
pain and restricted women's movement; made it
easier to confine women to the household.
Buddhism Belief system that started in India in the 500s BC.
Happiness can be achieved through removal of
one's desires. Believers seek enlightenment and
the overcoming of suffering.
