Unit 6 Vocab World Studies

Question 1

to seize and hold a position by force or without right

Answer 1

Usurp

Question 2

A state that pays tribute in money or goods to a more powerful nation

Answer 2

tributary state

Question 3

Breakup of large agricultural holdings for redistribution among peasants

Answer 3

Land reforms

Question 4

A general term for a class of prosperous families, sometimes including but often ranked below the rural aristocrats.

Answer 4

Gentry

Question 5

The Buddhist or Hindu place of worship, many tiers in the tower, look up the picture for better study material

Answer 5

Pagado

Question 6

founder and first Great Khan (Emperor) of the Mongol Empire

Answer 6

Genghiz Knan

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Marco Polo

Question 8

Korean ceramic pottery with a thin blue or green glaze.

Answer 8

Celadon

Question 9

alphabet that uses symbols, Korean language

Answer 9

hangul

Question 10

The percentage of a country’s people who can read and write.

Answer 10

Literacy Rate

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Choson Dynasty

Question 12

(born 1397—died 1450), monarch of the Chosŏn (Yi) dynasty during whose reign (1419–50) cultural achievements in Korea reached their highest point.

Answer 12

Sejong Dynasty

Question 13

A group/chain of islands

Answer 13

Archipelago

Question 14

A huge destructive wave (especially one caused by an earthquake)

Answer 14

Tsunami

Question 15

the process of choosing to accept some aspects of another culture, while discarding or modifying others

Answer 15

Selective Borrowing

Question 16

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)

Answer 16

Kana

Question 17

A major belt/chain of volcanoes that rims the Pacific Ocean

Answer 17

Ring of Fire

Question 18

“Way of the Kami”; Japanese worship of nature spirits, came into use in order to distinguish indigenous Japanese beliefs from Buddhism

Answer 18

Shinto

Question 19

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

Answer 19

Shogun

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Daimyo

Question 21

Class of warriors in feudal Japan who pledged loyalty to a noble in return for land.

Answer 21

Samurai

Question 22

(Japanese: “Way of the Warrior”) the code of conduct of the samurai, or bushi (warrior), class of premodern Japan

Answer 22

Bushido

Question 23

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

Answer 23

Kabuki

Question 24

Japanese Puppet theater

Answer 24

Bunraku

Question 25

A japanese form of poetry, consisting of three unrhymed lines of 5,7,5 syllables

Answer 25

Haiku

Question 26

the practice of meditation; a school of Buddhism in Japan

Answer 26

Zen