Shougun
Daimyo
Samurai
Facts of Japan
Fun Facts
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What does the word Shogun Mean?

Great general

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What is Daimyo?

Lords or nobles.

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What is Samurai?

Loyal, brave, and fearless.

100

What was the code of bushido similar to? 

European Chivalry

100

What was the very first song ever made?

Hurrian Hymn No. 6

200

What is the leader more powerful?

Shogun

200

What does the Daimyo have to do?

Obey the shogun and provide military service.

200

What did Samurai have to follow?

Code of Bushido

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What did noble families start doing?

 Refused to pay taxes to the emperor

200

Who composed the nutcracker?  

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

300

Who governed JApan?

Shogun

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What did the Daimyo control?

Large estates

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What did Samurai did not have to show? 

Emotion

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What is land exchange for?            

 Military service

300

What were the very first instruments?

 mammoth bone and swan bone flutes

400

For the next 700 years, what was Shogun's power?

Governed Japan

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What happens if Samurai lost his honor?

He had to commit ritual suicide

400

What did Japanese lords do? 

Gave away some of their lands in exchange for loyalty and military service.

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Who made the first piano? 

 Bartolomeo Cristofori

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What did the Samurai Have to do? 

Provide military service and obey the Daimyo and shogun.

500

Where was the first music founded? 

engraved on an ancient marble column used to mark a woman's gravesite in Turkey

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