Japan Vocabulary

Japan Review

Review for Japan Unit Test

regent

• a person who rules for an emperor who is too youg or too sick to govern

• "Court officials known as regents governed for them."

samurai

• a warrior who served a Japanese lord and lived by a strict code of loyalty

• "In battle, samurai fought on horseback with swords, daggers, and bows and arrows."

Multiple Choice

Which word is being defined here?

-a person who rules for someone who is unable to rule

• regent

• samurai

• bushido

bushido

• samurai code of conduct

• "This code was called Bushido, or 'way of the warrior.'"

shogun

• the chief military commander in feudal Japan

• "For about 700 years, shoguns ran Japan's government."

Multiple Choice

What is the way of the samurai called?

• regent

• bushido

• shogun

vassal

• a person under the protection of a lord to whom he has vowed loyalty

• "The bond of loyalty between a lord and a vassal is known as feudalism."

Daimyo

• Daimyos are Japanese lords with large landholdings and a private samurai army, who paid no taxes to the government.

• The daimyo controlled the samurai, who protected the daimyo,

  and therefore are higher than they on the social pyramid are.

• "(in feudal Japan) one of the great lords who were vassals of the shogun.

• The Japanese word daimyo is compounded from dai (“large”) and myō (for myōden, or “name-land,” meaning “private land”)

feudalism

• political order or hierarchy

• the system of service between a lord and the vassals who have sworn loyalty to the lord; political order

• "A similar form of feudalism existed in Europe between the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the early modern period."

Multiple Choice

Which word is being defined here?

-a person under the protection of a lord to whom he has vowed loyalty

• bushido

• feudalism

• vassal

Multiple Choice

In Japan, the political system of _____________ had warriors known as samurais.

• shogun

• feudalism

• bushido

Multiple Choice

The Daimyo controlled which group of people

• Samurais

• The Emperor

• Shoguns

Reorder

Reorder the following based on the hierarchy in Feudal Japan

• shogun

• daimyo

• samurai

• peasant

1

2

3

4

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

guilds

• a group of merchants or craftsmen during medieval times

• "They set up groups called guilds, or za in Japanese, to protect their jobs and increase their earnings."

martial arts

• sports that involve combat and self-defense

• "Followers of Zen disciplined their bodies through martial arts.."

meditation

• the act of focusing one's thoughts to gain a higher level of spiritual awareness

• "Meditation was considered a way for people to relax and find inner peace."

Multiple Choice

What involves combat and self-defense?

• meditation

• martial arts

• guilds

Multiple Choice

What does it look like this person is doing?

• meditation

• martial arts

• guilds

Multiple Select

Which of the following were words from this lesson?

(select all that apply)

• samurai

• knight

• shogun

• feudalism

Multiple Select

Which of the following were words from this lesson?

(select all that apply)

• meditation

• guilds

• archipelago

• vassal

Multiple Choice

In battle, _________ fought on horseback with swords, daggers, and bows and arrows.

• shoguns

• regents

• samurai

Multiple Choice

The Samurai code was called __________, or "way of the warrior."

• guilds

• bushido

• chivalry