Topic 7

Troops who fight primarily on horseback.

• Cavalry

• Siege

• Draconian

• Civil Service

A military operation in which an enemy force surrounds a town or camp and cuts off its supplies in an attempt to force a surrender.

• Cavalry

• Siege

• Draconian

• Civil Service

Excessively severe

• Cavalry

• Siege

• Draconian

• Civil Service

Administrative elements of government; government positions that are not political or military.

• Cavalry

• Siege

• Draconian

• Civil Service

Highly trained warrior in medieval Japan.

• Samurai

• Shogun

• neo-Confucianism

• Scholar-gentry

• Dowry

Military dictator of medieval Japan.

• Samurai

• Shogun

• neo-Confucianism

• Scholar-gentry

• Dowry

A revised form that evolved as a response to Buddhism and Daoism and held sway in China from the late Tang dynasty to the end of the dynastic system in the twentieth century.

• Samurai

• Shogun

• neo-Confucianism

• Scholar-gentry

• Dowry

In China, a group of people who controlled much of the land and produced most of the candidates for civil service.

• Samurai

• Shogun

• neo-Confucianism

• Scholar-gentry

• Dowry

A gift of money or property paid at the time of marriage, either by the bride's parents to her husband or, in Islamic societies, by a husband to his wife.

• Samurai

• Shogun

• neo-Confucianism

• Scholar-gentry

• Dowry

A chain of islands.

• Archipelago

• Bushido

• Daimyo

• Shinto

• Zen