Samurai
Feudal Roles
Japanese Feudalism
Knights
European Feudalism
100

What was the primary job of a samurai?

To protect the Daimyo's estate

100

The term for someone who owes loyalty to another in exchange for land

Vassal

100

Landowners in feudal Japan

Daimyo

100

Which word was the medieval European knight's code of ideal behavior, including bravery, loyalty, and respect for women

Chivalry

100

After Rome's empire collapsed, many new kingdoms arose in which part of the Empire, East or West?

West

200

What was the name of the code that Samurai had to follow, which included showing no emotion and being loyal to the daimyo and emperor?

Bushido

200

Farmers and fishermen were the ________  form of peasants in Japanese feudalism

highest

200

Who held most of the power in the military government of feudal Japan?

Shogun
200

A knight provided protection for the lord; what did the knight receive for this service?

Land/a place to live

200

The eastern part of the Roman Empire became what Greek-speaking empire, based in modern day Turkiye?

The Byzantine Empire

300

If a samurai broke the code of Bushido, what would they be required to do?

Seppuku 

300

What is the difference between a peasant and a serf?

Peasants are "free" to leave the manor; serfs are stuck working for the master. 

300

What was a masterless samurai called?

Ronin

300
at this stage, a would-be knight was learning basic etiquette and manners, as well as reading and writing and chivalry

Page

300

European Feudalism developed largely after the fall of who's empire (the Frankish king and his descendents)?

Charlemagne

400

One of the types of poetry written by the Samurai

Haiku

400

Name two differences between the feudal hierarchies in Japan and Europe

Shogun and peasant farmers at different levels

400

In Pre-Feudal Japan, the ideas of dynasties and emperors were borrowed from which other kingdom/empire?

China

400

During this stage of becoming a knight, a would be knight learns how to clean weapons and ride a horse

Squire

400

Merchants, farmers, and artisans were all types of what social group in the feudal structure?

peasants

500

In the early days of the Samurai, women of the samurai class could do what?

Fight alongside their husbands and men

500

Essentially a figurehead in feudal Japan

Emperor

500

The name of this feudal position translates to "Great General"

Shogun

500

True or False: part of the code of Chivalry was that knights shouldn't harm peasants

True

500

What three groups invaded Charlemagne's Empire, leading to the rise of feudal rule in Europe?

Magyars, Vikings, and Muslims