Chapter 13

3. Conquered parts of central Asia
8. created a linking bridge between China and Japan
10. Empress that helped restore government
12. states that had their rulers forced to acknowledge Chinese supremacy and send regular tributes to the emperor while remaining independent
14. Was originally a general in the Sui dynasty
15. a multistoried temple with eaves that curve up at the corners
18. an alphabet using symbols to represent the sound of spoken Korean.
19. A brilliant Korean general that set up the Choson dynasty.
22. The best-known Heian writer who was Sei Shonagon’s rival.
23. a porcelain with an unusual blue-green glaze.
24. Marco Polo’s writings of the wealth and splendor of China sparked European interest in the riches of Asia.
27. The sun goddess that was claimed by the Yamato clan to be her descendants.

1. A brilliant Japanese general who was born a commoner and had brought most of Japan under his control.
2. A shogun who set up the Kamakura shogunate that was the first of three military dynasties and ruled Japan for 700 years.
4. A Chinese admiral that had the most extraordinary voyages of the overseas ventures and commanded the first of seven expeditions.
5. A daimyo who defeated his rivals to become master of Japan and was named shogun three years later.
6. the wealthy landowning class
7. The grandson of Genghiz Khan who conquered China and showed hospitality to Marco Polo.
9. Li Yuan's son
11. An Italian merchant that sailed across the seas all the way to China and was given hospitality by Kublai Khan.
13. Was a golden age of China
16. A lady-in-waiting to the empress who wrote The Pillow Book.
17. Foreign trade flourished
20. emperor who United China
21. a system where large agricultural holdings are broken up and distributed to peasants
22. Zheng He traveled abroad to promote trade and collect tribute from lesser powers across the “western seas.”
25. poet that was a zestful lover of life and freedom
26. to illegally take over something