USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -A tributary state is an independent state that has to acknowledge the supremacy of another state and pay tribute to its ruler.

Detailed explanation-2: -A tributary was originally a person or state that owed tribute to a more powerful person or state.

Detailed explanation-3: -A tributary state is a term for a pre-modern state in a particular type of subordinate relationship to a more powerful state which involved the sending of a regular token of submission, or tribute, to the superior power (the suzerain).

Detailed explanation-4: -The empires of Assyria, Babylon, Carthage and Rome exacted tribute from their provinces and subject kingdoms. Ancient China received tribute from various states such as Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Borneo, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Myanmar and Central Asia (listed here).

Detailed explanation-5: -The “tribute” entailed a foreign court sending envoys and exotic products to the Chinese emperor. The emperor then gave the envoys gifts in return and permitted them to trade in China. Presenting tribute involved theatrical subordination but usually not political subordination.