Topic 12 Lesson 1
What is a hard, white pottery of excellent quality?
Porcelain
What is a person who travels and never has a permanent home?
Nomad
What is a device with a magnetized piece of metal that points north?
Compass
What is a group of people with a common ancestor?
Clan
What word means that someone was only a symbolic leader, while someone else was really in control?
Figurehead
What is the growth of cities?
Urbanization
What is a large, dry, grass-covered plain?
Steppe
What is the way of printing in which workers carved letters into wood blocks, which were covered in ink and pressed onto paper?
Block printing
What is a holy being that represents a spirit of nature, a sacred place, an ancestor, or a clan in the Japanese culture?
Kami
What is a highly trained warrior?
Samurai
What is a man who passes the civil service examinations and is qualified for government jobs?
Scholar-Offical
What is another phrase for a ruler?
Khan
What is the religion based on the teachings of the Indian spiritual leader Siddhartha Gautama?
Buddhism
Who is someone who governs a country in the name of a ruler who is unable to rule?
Regent
What is a supreme military commander?
Shogun
What is a system of government with many departments and bureaus led by appointed officials?
Bureaucracy
What is a payment or gift to a more powerful city?
Tribute
What is the system of moral behavior?
Confucianism
What is the area that is part of a continent?
Mainland
What was the heart of the set of rules?
Bushido
What is a system where people are hired and promoted based on talent and skills, rather than wealth?
Merit System
What is a dictator or tyrant?
Despot
What is the ancient Chinese philosophy?
Daoism
What is the chain of islands?
Archipelago
What are the local land-owning lords?
Daimyo