Medieval Japan

Between 1192 and 1333, the Japanese military leader with greater power than the emperor was called the:

• shogun

• samurai

• bushido

• nara

Japan is a small country formed by an archipelago

• True

• False

Feudalism in Japan was a system where powerful families of nobles hired peasants to work on their large estates. Also, nobles hired their own armies of samurai warriors for protection.

• True

• False

The code of bushido was a set of rules that samurai took an oath to follow.

• True

• False

According to the Shinto religion, spirits of nature and ancestors are always near.

• True

• False