They were warriors at the top of the hierarchy of occupations in feudal Japan.
samurai
The.....of Japan lived in Kyoto and didn’t have real political power, except as a figurehead.
Emperor
After completing training as squires, soldiers became.....and fought for nobles.
knights
This was a custom in Europe between the 9th and 15th centuries. Most people worked on land for the sake of monarchs and nobles.
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
They were samurai lords who had power over land called a han.
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
Seppuku was a ritual for samurai to retain their honor after failure, and it involved....., the cutting of the stomach.
harakiri
They took on more responsibilities than pages. They went to the battlefield with knights.
squires
The era of feudalism is often called the,.... ....and it is usually dated between the 5th and 15th centuries.
Middle Ages
....(heimin) tended to the farms in feudal Japan.
Peasants
With the exception of untouchables (burakumin) and foreigners,....were at the bottom of the Edo hierarchy.
merchants
They were at the top of medieval hierarchies. They owned all that the nobles and the vassals beneath them produced.
royalty
Knights were said to have followed codes of conduct known as...
chivalry
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
The four remaining classes in Japan were put in a hierarchy according to their ‘purity’ based on....teachings from China.
Confucianist
Feudalism developed to its most complicated form in Japan during the..., which lasted from 1603 to 1868.
Edo period
The...were far more powerful in the Middle Ages. The Pope had power similar to that of a king.
clergy
Feudalism was replaced with...as our current economic system.
capitalism
Just as knights were said to have followed rules of chivalry, samurai were said to have followed the code of....
bushido
They were young boys who served at court and ran errands for knights, like handling messages.
pages
Artists and merchants often kept their knowledge within their families, and they almost always were members of...
guilds
They were placed below peasants and above merchants in the Edo hierarchy, since they didn’t produce essential goods.
artisans
Art, music and literature were primarily religious, and they were typically produced through the...system.
patronage
They were nobility during the Edo period who were also symbolic, like the Emperor.
kuge