Chinese ships equipped with watertight bulkheads, sternpost rudders, compasses, and bamboo fenders; dominant forces in Asian oceans

Practice in Chinese society to mutilate women's feet to make them smaller; painful and made it easier to confine women to the household

system of knotted strings utilized by the Incas in place of a writing system

wandering mystics within Islam; responsible for expansion of Islam to southern Asia and other regions

extensive adaptation of Chinese culture in other regions

Built in the 7th century during the reign of Yangdi during the Sui dynasty; linked north China with the southern Yangtze River Basin.

Chinese credit instrument that reduced the danger of robbery; an early form of currency.

This is a massive roadway system that stretched 25,000 miles during the Incan rule.

clans in Aztec society; distributed land and provided labor and warriors.

excessive adherence to law or formula.

most famous of the trading routes established by pastoral nomads.

Revived Confucian teaching in the Song era; emphasis on tradition and hostility to foreign systems.

Inca practice of descent, all titles, and political power went to a successor but wealth and land went to a male descendant

the concentration of control of an activity or organization under a single authority.

Chinese class crated by the marital linkage of the local hand holding aristocracy with the office holding shi

Also known as Huanghe; site of development of sedentary agriculture in china

Labor extracted for lands assigned to the state and the religion; all communities contributed; an essential aspect of Inca control

the transfer of authority from central to local government. (This is the best definition I could find but I
bet you can still get it)

list the Chinese dynasties in order

Central Asian Nomadic peoples

special merchant class in Aztec society; specialized in long-distance trade in luxury items

orthodox religious scholars within Islam; conservative and restrictive theology

the basic physical and organizational structures and facilities (e.g. buildings, roads, power supplies) needed for the operation of a society or enterprise.