Topic 12 Lesson 1
What is a system of government with many departments and bureaus led by appointed officials.
bureaucracy
A person who moves from place to place at different times of the year.
nomad
A device with a magnetized piece of metal that points to the north.
A compass
Japan is a chain of islands.
archipelago
What means that he was only a symbolic leader, while someone else was really in control?
figurehead
Who is qualified for government jobs?
scholar-official,
A large, dry, grass-covered plain.
steppe
Is an ancient Chinese philosophy.
Daoism
A is an area that is a part of a continent.
mainland
Or supreme military commander.
shogun
What is People are hired and promoted based on talent and skills, rather than wealth or social status?
merit system
A system, people are hired and promoted based on talent and skills, rather than wealth or social status. The government opened schools that even poor students could attend.
merit system,
Is a religion based on the teachings.
Buddhism
A is a group of people with a common ancestor.
clan
was a social system in which landowners granted people land or other rewards in exchange for military service or labor.
Feudalism
When did the several military leaders rebelled?
700s
when did they had conquered most of the Jin kingdom that ruled northern China?
1215
Vietnam, Korea, and Japan borrowed.
the writing system.
warlike clans competed for land and power.
200s 400s
This strict code of conduct guided samurai behavior.
1600s
When did the foreign Jin kingdom took control of northern China in what?
1127
armies conquered that is left of the Jin kingdom.
1234
Tried to limit the influence of foreigners,
Ming government
Shotoku sent official represen- tatives to China to study arts and government.
607
Japan was controlled by daimyo
During the 1400s and 1500s