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100

They were warriors at the top of the hierarchy of occupations in feudal Japan.

samurai

100

The.....of Japan lived in Kyoto and didn’t have real political power, except as a figurehead.

Emperor

100

After completing training as squires, soldiers became.....and fought for nobles.

knights

100

This was a custom in Europe between the 9th and 15th centuries. Most people worked on land for the sake of monarchs and nobles.

feudalism
100

They were a series of religious wars fought between Christian kingdoms in Europe and Muslims in the Middle East between 1095 CE and 1291 CE in an attempt to conquer Jerusalem.

The Crusades

200

They were samurai lords who had power over land called a han.

daimyos
200

They were people born into wealthy, noble families who owned the land vassals worked on. They had an obligation to provide economic and military service to the king, and they were supposed to protect vassals.

lords

200

Seppuku was a ritual for samurai to retain their honor after failure, and it involved....., the cutting of the stomach.

harakiri

200

They took on more responsibilities than pages. They went to the battlefield with knights.

squires

200

The era of feudalism is often called the,.... ....and it is usually dated between the 5th and 15th centuries.

Middle Ages

300

....(heimin) tended to the farms in feudal Japan.

Peasants

300

With the exception of untouchables (burakumin) and foreigners,....were at the bottom of the Edo hierarchy.

merchants

300

They were at the top of medieval hierarchies. They owned all that the nobles and the vassals beneath them produced.

royalty

300

Knights were said to have followed codes of conduct known as...

chivalry

300

They worked on land owned by nobles in Europe, and the labor they did was not just for survival, but also to produce goods for the nobility and royals.

vassals

400

The four remaining classes in Japan were put in a hierarchy according to their ‘purity’ based on....teachings from China.

Confucianist

400

Feudalism developed to its most complicated form in Japan during the..., which lasted from 1603 to 1868.

Edo period

400

The...were far more powerful in the Middle Ages. The Pope had power similar to that of a king.

clergy

400

Feudalism was replaced with...as our current economic system.

capitalism

400

Just as knights were said to have followed rules of chivalry, samurai were said to have followed the code of....

bushido

500

They were young boys who served at court and ran errands for knights, like handling messages.

pages

500

Artists and merchants often kept their knowledge within their families, and they almost always were members of...

guilds

500

They were placed below peasants and above merchants in the Edo hierarchy, since they didn’t produce essential goods.

artisans

500

Art, music and literature were primarily religious, and they were typically produced through the...system.

patronage

500

They were nobility during the Edo period who were also symbolic, like the Emperor.

kuge

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