Vocab words Flashcards

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Shogun

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A hereditary commander-in-chief in feudal Japan.

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Daimyo

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(in feudal Japan) One of the great lords who were vassals of the shogun.

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Zen

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A Japanese school of Mahayana Buddhism emphasizing the value of meditation and intuition.

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Seppuku

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Another term for hara-kiri.

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Samurai

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A member of a powerful military caste in feudal Japan, especially a member of the class of military retainers of the daimyos.

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Longboat

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A large boat that may be launched from a sailing ship.

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Steppe

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A large area of flat unforested grassland in southeastern Europe or Siberia.

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Rus

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The medieval Russian state established by Scandinavian traders in the 9th century

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Slavs

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A member of a group of peoples in central and eastern Europe speaking Slavic languages.

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Principality of Kiev

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A Ruthenian state in the regions of central Ukraine around the city of Kiev that existed after the fragmentation of the Kievan Rus’ in the early 12th century.

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Leif Ericson

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An Icelandic explorer and the first known European to have discovered North America (excluding Greenland), before Christopher Columbus.

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Vinland Sagas

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The Saga of Erik the Red and The Saga of the Greenlanders both contain different accounts of Norse voyages

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Danelaw

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A historical name given to the part of England in which the laws of the Danes held sway and dominated those of the Anglo-Saxons.

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