Terms and definitions

Question 1

Artisan

Answer 1

Skilled workers and makers of hand made goods

Question 2

Bakufu

Answer 2

The premodern military government of Japan

Question 3

Civil war

Answer 3

A war between people of the same country

Question 4

Clan

Answer 4

A close nit group of interrelated families

Question 5

Daimyo

Answer 5

Feudal lords who ruled the provinces of Japan

Question 6

Edo

Answer 6

The capital of Japan later renamed to Tokyo

Question 7

Emperor

Answer 7

The head of the imperial family of Japan

Question 8

Enlightenment

Answer 8

A European intellectual movement emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition

Question 9

Hereditary

Answer 9

A title which is inherited through bloodline

Question 10

Mongols

Answer 10

The native inhabitants of Mongolia

Question 11

Mushin

Answer 11

A mental state when one’s mind is free of anger, fear, or ego

Question 12

Regent

Answer 12

A person appointed as head of state because the monarch is a minor, absent, or incapacitated

Question 13

Ronin

Answer 13

A warrior or samurai without a master

Question 14

Samurai

Answer 14

The warrior class of Japan

Question 15

Satori

Answer 15

Sudden enlightenment

Question 16

Seppuku

Answer 16

A Japanese tradition and form of ritual suicide

Question 17

Shoen

Answer 17

Farm lands given to people of service to Japan

Question 18

Shogun

Answer 18

the military rulers of Japan

Question 19

Sei-Tai-Shogun

Answer 19

Translates to Barbarian Defeating General

Question 20

Shogunates

Answer 20

The hereditary military dictatorships of Japan

Question 21

Shinto

Answer 21

An ancient Japanese religion which worships ancestors and natural spirits and a belief in a sacred power

Question 22

Vassals

Answer 22

Subordinates who pledge their loyalty to powerful lords

Question 23

Tributary state

Answer 23

A state which has to pay a tribute to another state as a token of submission

Question 24

Social castes

Answer 24

the feudal social classes of Japan