A form of government in which power is held by the nobility.
What is aristocracy?
The belief that objects, places, and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence?
What is animism?
The spread or cause to spread over a wide area or among a large number of people.
What is diffuse?
The doctrine or belief that there is only one God
What is monotheism?
A combining form representing Greek.
What is Greco?
In Japanese history, a military ruler
What is shogun?
The belief in or worship of more than one god.
A tall slender tower, typically part of a mosque, with a balcony from which a muezzin calls Muslims to prayer.
What is a minaret?
A line of descent from a female ancestor to a descendant.
What is matrilineal?
The creator and supreme being (in a monotheistic religion such as Christianity)
What is a deity?
A policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries.
What is isolationism?
Known as the pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia.
What is the Hajj?
What is a Mosque?
A succession of people from the same family who play a prominent role in business, politics, or another field.
What is a dynasty?
Visual art related to writing. It is the design and execution of lettering with a pen, ink brush, or other writing.
What is calligraphy?
The divine spirits or gods are recognized in Shinto, the native religion of Japan.
What is Kami?
A member of a class of traveling poets, musicians, and storytellers who maintain a tradition of oral history in parts of West Africa
What is a griot?
A pattern or image made of small regular or irregular pieces of colored stone, glass or ceramic, held in place by plaster/mortar.
What is Mosaics?
A method of growing crops on the sides of hills or mountains by planting on graduated terraces built into the slope.
What is terrace farming?
The hereditary military nobility and officer caste of medieval and early-modern Japan.
What are the Samurai?
What is Buddhism?
A devotional practice consisting of a prolonged journey, often undertaken on foot or on horseback, toward a specific destination of significance.
What is a pilgrimage?
A system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god.
What is theocracy?
A moral code concerning samurai attitudes, behavior and lifestyle.
What is bushido?
Restoration of political unity to a place or group, especially a divided territory
What is Reunification?