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- 4. system of testing designed to select the most studious and learned candidates for appointment as bureaucrats in the Chinese government.
- 7. ruled China from 1368 to 1644 A.D., during which China's population would double
- 8. region and cultural area in southern North America and most of Central America
- 10. a party gives to another as a sign of submission
- 12. established by the Mongols and ruled China from 1271 to 1368 CE.
- 14. ancient city built by the Aztecs
- 15. the first elaborate pre-Columbian civilization of Mesoamerica
- 17. mongol peace
- 18. ancient civilization that stretched across much of Central America
- 19. pitiless, cruel, or heartless.
- 22. Mongolian general and statesman who was the grandson and greatest successor of Genghis Khan
- 24. dynasty ruled only in South China after 1127.
- 26. the spread of one culture's practices
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- 1. succeeded the short-lived Sui dynasty (581–618)
- 2. Chinese mariner, explorer, diplomat, fleet admiral, and court eunuch during China's early Ming dynasty
- 3. founder of the Mongol Empire
- 5. an earlier people's culture that has a great and widespread influence on some later cultures and people
- 6. ruled an empire that extended along the Pacific coast and Andean highlands
- 9. ruled Mexico and neighboring areas
- 11. This political entity was typically found on the Eurasian Steppe and could be equivalent in status to tribal chiefdom
- 13. sympathy or indulgence for beliefs or practices differing from or conflicting with one's own
- 16. floating garden
- 20. a method used by the Incas and other ancient Andean cultures to keep records
- 21. journeyed across Asia at the height of the Mongol Empire
- 23. a Central Asian ethnographic group of closely related tribal peoples
- 25. upper or ruling class