GWA Asia Vocab.

Question 1

Bushido

Answer 1

Code of behavior developed by Japan’s samurai class that emphasized military virtues and the samurai’s duty of loyalty to his lord

Question 2

Monsoon

Answer 2

Seasonal wind that dominated the climate of South Asia

Question 3

Dialect

Answer 3

Regional version of a language, with its own words, expressions, and pronunciations

Question 4

Rajah

Answer 4

Hereditary Aryan chiefs who ruled the villages

Question 5

Varna

Answer 5

Four classes into which the Aryans divided people

Question 6

Caste

Answer 6

In India, system of social groups based on birth

Question 7

Sect

Answer 7

Religious group

Question 8

Nirvana

Answer 8

In Buddhism, the condition of having no desires

Question 9

Dharma

Answer 9

In Hinduism, the duties and obligations of each caste

Question 10

Stupa

Answer 10

Shrine containing the remains of the Buddha or other holy persons

Question 11

Sultan

Answer 11

Ruling monarch in Muslim country

Question 12

Purdah

Answer 12

Among Hindus and Muslims, the complete seclusion in which some women live

Question 13

Sepoy

Answer 13

Indian troops who served in the British army

Question 14

Buffer State

Answer 14

Small country located between two large, hostile powers

Question 15

Archipelago

Answer 15

Chain of islands

Question 16

Genocide

Answer 16

Deliberate killing of an ethnic or religious group

Question 17

Loess

Answer 17

Yellow-brown soil that winds carry across the North China Plain into the Yellow River

Question 18

Shinto

Answer 18

Japanese religion that stresses the link between people and the forces of nature

Question 19

Proletariat

Answer 19

Industrial working class

Question 20

Shogun

Answer 20

Chief general of the army who was the real ruler in feudal Japan

Question 21

Daimyo

Answer 21

Powerful samurai warriors under the control of Japan’s Tokugawa shogunate

Question 22

Samurai

Answer 22

Japanese warrior knights