Vocabulary 10/11/16

Question 1

Shogun

Answer 1

the title applied to the chief military commanders

Question 2

Daimyo zen

Answer 2

one of the great lords who were vassals of the shogun.

Question 3

Seppuku

Answer 3

Ritual suicide by disembowelment formerly practiced by Japanese samurai.

Question 4

Samurai

Answer 4

a member of a powerful military caste in feudal Japan

Question 5

Longboat

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Steppe

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Rus

Answer 7

The medieval Russian state

Question 8

Slavs

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Principality of Kiev

Answer 9

a Ruthenian state in the regions of central Ukraine around the city of Kiev

Question 10

Leif Ericsson

Answer 10

discoverer of Vinland

Question 11

Vinland sagas

Answer 11

two Icelandic texts written independently of each other in the early thirteenth century

Question 12

Danelaw

Answer 12

the part of England under this law.

Question 13

Silk Roads

Answer 13

An ancient trade route between China and the Mediterranean Sea