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2 
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Where monks meditated and worshiped  
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4 
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A group who broke away and built their own civilization 
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9 
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Modern day Beijing 
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10 
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She added more officials to the government 
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11 
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Made of fine clay and baked at higher temperatures 
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12 
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A cultivated plant that is grown as food, especially a grain, fruit, or vegetable 
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Groups of related families, loosely joined together  
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He was a poor civil servant who had a hard life  
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15 
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Where poets and artists lived and worked 
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16 
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Where the Mongols lived 
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A word that means strong ruler 
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Wide, rolling, grassy plains that stretch from the Black Sea to northern China 
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Changes that brought improvements 
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He declared himself emperor 
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Buddhism later spread to this nearby island 
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Military leaders who run a government fought with each other while nomads conquered parts of northern China 
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He continued the Mongol conquest of China that his grandfather had begun   
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An organized way in which people produce, sell, and purchase things 
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A vast desert that covers parts of Mongolia and China 
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One of the most popular poets of the Tang era 
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