Vocab words Flashcards
Shogun
A hereditary commander-in-chief in feudal Japan.
Daimyo
(in feudal Japan) One of the great lords who were vassals of the shogun.
Zen
A Japanese school of Mahayana Buddhism emphasizing the value of meditation and intuition.
Seppuku
Another term for hara-kiri.
Samurai
A member of a powerful military caste in feudal Japan, especially a member of the class of military retainers of the daimyos.
Longboat
A large boat that may be launched from a sailing ship.
Steppe
A large area of flat unforested grassland in southeastern Europe or Siberia.
Rus
The medieval Russian state established by Scandinavian traders in the 9th century
Slavs
A member of a group of peoples in central and eastern Europe speaking Slavic languages.
Principality of Kiev
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.
Leif Ericson
An Icelandic explorer and the first known European to have discovered North America (excluding Greenland), before Christopher Columbus.
Vinland Sagas
The Saga of Erik the Red and The Saga of the Greenlanders both contain different accounts of Norse voyages
Danelaw
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.