Step 2: Explain Why It Matters

Put your reading into practice. Identify each term below, and then explain why it matters in world history.

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TERM WHO OR WHAT & WHEN WHY IT MATTERS
Great Wall
Confucian classics
Records of the Grand Historian
Silk Road
tributary system
eunuchs
Age of Division
Grand Canal
Pure Land
Chan
Shinto
Nara