AP World History Chapter 13 Vocabulary

Attempt to remake Japanese monarch into an absolute Chinese style emperor; included attempts to create professional bureaucracy and peasant conscript army.

Written by Lady Muraski; first novel in any language; relates life history of prominent and amorous son of the Japanese emperor; evidence for mannered style of Japanese society.

Japanese aristocratic family in mid-9th century; exercised exceptional influence over imperial affairs; aided in decline of imperial power.

Regional warrior leaders in Japan; ruled small kingdoms from fortresses; administered the law, supervised public works projects, and collected revenues; built up private armies.

Mounted troops of Japanese warrior leaders; loyal to local lords, not the emperors.

Ritual suicide or disembowelment in Japan; commonly known in West as hara-kiri; demonstrated courage and a means to restore family honor.

Powerful Japanese family in 11th and 12th centuries; competed with Minamoto family; defeated after Gempei Wars.

Defeated the rival Taira family in Gempei Wars and established military government in 12th-century Japan.

Waged for five years from 1180, on Honshu between Taira and Minamoto families; resulted in destruction of Taira.

Military government established by the Minamoto following the Gempei Wars; centered at Kamakura; retained emperor, but real power resided in military government and samurai.

Military leaders of the bakufu (military governments in Japan).

Warrior family closely allied with Minamoto; dominated Kamakura regime and manipulated Minamoto rulers who claimed to rule in name of Japanese emperor at Kyoto.

Member of the Minamoto family; overthrew the Kamakura regime and established the Ashikaga Shogunate from 1336-1573; drove emperor from Kyoto to Yoshino.

Replaced the Kamakura regime in Japan; ruled from 1336-1573; destroyed rival Yoshino center of imperial authority.

Warlord rulers of 300 small states following civil war and disruption of Ashikaga Shogunate; holdings consolidated into unified and bounded mini-states.

Earliest Korean kingdom; conquered by Han emperor in 109 B.C.E.

Tribal people of northern Korea; established an independent kingdom in the northern half of the peninsula in 37 B.C.E.; adopted cultural sinification.

Independent Korean kingdom in southeastern part of peninsula; defeated Koguryo along with their Chinese Tan allies; submitted as a vassal of the Tang emperor and agreed to tribute payment; ruled united Korea by 668.

Independent Korean kingdom in southeastern part of peninsula; defeated by rival Silla kingdom and its Chines Tang allies in 7th century.

Extensive adaptation of Chines culture in other regions; typical of Korean and Japan, less typical of Vietnam.

Indianized rivals of the Vietnamized; moved into Mekong river delta region at time of Vietnamese drive to the south.

Leaders of one of the frequent peasant rebellions in Vietnam against Chinese rule; revolt broke out in 39 C.E.; demonstrates importance of Vietnamese women in indigenous society.

Indianized rivals of the Vietnamese; driven into the highlands by the successful Vietnamese drive to the south.

Rival Vietnamese dynasty that arose in southern Vietnam to challenge traditional dynasty of Trinh in north at Hanoi; kingdom centered on Red and Mekong rivers; capital at Hue.

Dynasty that ruled in north Vietnam at Hanoi, 1533-1772; rivals of Nguyen family in south.