These are religious warriors who controlled the lower classes and fought off invaders.

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In Japan, they were viewed as the lowest class in society.

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Japan (a)   itself from the world between the early 1600's to the mid 1800's.

Early Japanese society was organized by groups of related family members known as:

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This early Japanese religion was centered around nature and believed in many gods that represented its forces:

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He was an early ruler who encouraged Chinese influence in Japan and wrote its first Constitution.

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This is a Japanese form of poetry with three lines of seventeen syllables (5-7-5), and usually about nature.

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He was a popular leader who was responsible for 2 attacks on Korea, massacring his family, and helping to unify Japan.

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This was the code of the warrior.

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Samurai favored this sect (branch) of Buddhism.

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Title given to the supreme military ruler or general.

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This is a social system designed in the shape of a pyramid and practiced in Japan.

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