Dynasties of East Asia

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  1. 3. last of the Japanese shogunates, ending with the Meiji Restoration of 1867
  2. 4. ruled China by martial law, 221-206 BC, began construction of Great Wall
  3. 6. a.k.a. the Manchu dynasty, which governed China at the time of the Opium and Taiping wars
  4. 7. Empress Wu ranks as one of its most famed rulers, period especially renowned for its poetry
  5. 10. longest tenured Chinese dynasty, 1046-256 BC, including "Hundred Schools of Thought" era
  6. 12. legendary founder of the first and only Japanese dynasty, c. 660 BC
  7. 14. family which established the office of the shogunate in feudal Japan, AD 1192
  8. 15. first historic Chinese dynasty, c. 1600-1046 BC, founded by Tang who ruled from Anyang
  9. 16. divided into Bei (northern) and Nan (southern) eras, renowned for its landscape art
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  1. 1. Mongol rule over China, 1271-1368, during which Marco Polo served Kublai Khan
  2. 2. "great name": aristocratic landholders who employed samurai and held great power in feudal Japan
  3. 5. ancient Chinese golden age, 202 BC-AD 220, which engaged in Silk Road trade with Rome
  4. 7. a.k.a Genghis Khan, founder of the world's greatest contiguous empire in history
  5. 8. absorbed Silla to establish the first united kingdom of the Korean peninsula in AD 935
  6. 9. brief, militant rule which restored order following disunity of the Six Dynasties era
  7. 11. legendary ancient Chinese kingdom of the Yellow River valley, founded by Yu the Great, c. 2070 BC
  8. 12. longstanding dynasty of Korea, 1392-1895, whose isolationist bent left it as "the hermit kingdom"
  9. 13. highly successful early modern dynasty, famed for its porcelains, i.e., "fine china", 1368-1644