Social Classes
This social class was simply a figurehead but also worshipped as a god
What is the Emperor?
1-6, where does the Emperor fall on the Feudalism Pyramid?
Number 1
This social class made up 90% of Japan's population
Farmers and Fishermen
The largest and most centrally located island in Japan
What is Honshu?
defined as an island group or chain?
What is an archipelago?
the military ruler of feudal Japan
What is the Shogun?
1-6 - where do the Farmers and Fishermen fall on the feudalism pyramid?
Which great empire failed to invade Japan successfully twice
The Mongol Empire
The capital of Japan
What is Edo/Tokyo?
defined as the social system in which the nobility holds lands from the Emperor or King in exchange for military service, while the peasants (villagers or serfs) were obliged to live on their lord's land and give him homage, labor, and a share of the produce, notionally in exchange for military protection?
What is Feudalism?
This social class was the least useful in the war-based system of feudalism and, therefore, the lowest social class/group?
What is the Artisans and Merchants?
1-6 - Where do the Artisans and Merchants fall on the Feudalism Pyramid?
Number 6
Where did Japan eventually receive some ideas and culture from?
The most population dense area in Japan due to its flat land
What is the Kanto Plain?
defined as the spread and combining of cultural beliefs and practices from one group to another?
What is Cultural Diffusion?
This social class was the vassal of the Daimyo?
What is the Samauri?
1-6 - Where do the Daimyo fall on the Feudalism pyramid?
Number 3
What was the name given to the natural force that destroyed much of the invading empire’s fleets?
The Kamikaze
Japan's Mountains and Ocean separation allowed for Japan to become...
An isolated and independent society.
defined as the nobility of Japan that rule the different provinces of Japan on the Shogun’s behalf?
This social class provided food in return for receiving protection?
What is the Farmers and Fishermen?
1-6 - Where does the Shogun fall on the Feudalism pyramid?
Number 2
This is defined as a Japanese-based religion emphasizing a combination of ancestor and nature worship?
What is Shintoism
Name the 3 waterways that surround Japan
What is the East China Sea, Pacific Ocean, and Sea of Japan
defined as a person granted the use of land by a superior social class in return for promised loyalty and usually military service?
What is a Vassal?