Unit 6 Vocab World Studies Flashcards
to seize and hold a position by force or without right
Usurp
A state that pays tribute in money or goods to a more powerful nation
tributary state
Breakup of large agricultural holdings for redistribution among peasants
Land reforms
A general term for a class of prosperous families, sometimes including but often ranked below the rural aristocrats.
Gentry
The Buddhist or Hindu place of worship, many tiers in the tower, look up the picture for better study material
Pagado
founder and first Great Khan (Emperor) of the Mongol Empire
Genghiz Knan
Venetian merchant and traveler. His accounts of his travels to China offered Europeans a firsthand view of Asian lands and stimulated interest in Asian trade. Basically journey across the Asia during the height of the Mongol Empire
Marco Polo
Korean ceramic pottery with a thin blue or green glaze.
Celadon
alphabet that uses symbols, Korean language
hangul
The percentage of a country’s people who can read and write.
Literacy Rate
the last and longest-lived imperial dynasty (1392-1910) of Korea; followed confucianism; stratified society, large slave class; economy not as strong as Japan or China
Choson Dynasty
(born 1397—died 1450), monarch of the Chosŏn (Yi) dynasty during whose reign (1419–50) cultural achievements in Korea reached their highest point.
Sejong Dynasty
A group/chain of islands
Archipelago
A huge destructive wave (especially one caused by an earthquake)
Tsunami
the process of choosing to accept some aspects of another culture, while discarding or modifying others
Selective Borrowing
a Japanese system of syllabic writing having characters that can be used exclusively for writing foreign words or in combination with kanji (as for indicating pronunciations or grammatical inflections)
Kana
A major belt/chain of volcanoes that rims the Pacific Ocean
Ring of Fire
“Way of the Kami”; Japanese worship of nature spirits, came into use in order to distinguish indigenous Japanese beliefs from Buddhism
Shinto
hereditary military leaders who were technically appointed by the emperor, worked closely with other classes in Japanese society. They worked with civil servants, who would administer programs such as taxes and trade
Shogun
feudal lords who, as leaders of powerful warrior bands, controlled the provinces of Japan from the beginning of the Kamakura period in 1185 to the end of the Edo period in 1868, vassals of the shogun
Daimyo
Class of warriors in feudal Japan who pledged loyalty to a noble in return for land.
Samurai
(Japanese: “Way of the Warrior”) the code of conduct of the samurai, or bushi (warrior), class of premodern Japan
Bushido
A popular type of Japanese drama combined with music and dance, it is the type of theatre in Japan, used to be played by both female male, now it is just males
Kabuki
Japanese Puppet theater
Bunraku
A japanese form of poetry, consisting of three unrhymed lines of 5,7,5 syllables
Haiku
the practice of meditation; a school of Buddhism in Japan
Zen
