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Estate (land) owners to whom the warriors were loyal.
What is the daimyo
100
This is what the word "samurai" means.
What is "those who serve"?
100
The country ruled by Kublai Khan.
What is Mongolia (north of China)?
100
What did a powerful shogun, Tokugawa Ieyasu do to protect Japan from Europeans.
What is he isolated Japan from outsiders?
100
This is the effect of Japan's isolation from the rest of the world.
What is that their unique culture was preserved.
200
Japanese warriors who protected the lands of the daimyo.
Who are the samurai?
200
This the city from which the emperors ruled before the rise of the daimyo (wealthy land owning families).
What is Kyoto?
200
The number of times Kublai Khan tried to invade Japan?
What is two?
200
This is the reason that Shogun Tokugawa isolated Japan?
What is that he was afraid that Europeans would invade and take over Japan?
200
The shogun expected this from the daimyo.
What is loyalty?
300
The Japanese code of rules that stresses honor, bravery, and simple living which the samurai followed.
What is bushido?
300
This is what happened as the daimyo gained power?
What is the emperors became weak?
300
The reason Kublai Khan was unsuccessful in invading Japan?
What is it was surrounded by the ocean and a fierce storm prevented his fleet of ships from landing?
300
This is how the shoguns kept Japan isolated?
What is they outlawed Christianity, forced Europeans to leave? They banned travel, trade, and the building of ships?
300
The daimyo gave this to the samurai in exchange for protection.
What is land?
400
The system of government in Japanin the middle ages.
What is feudalism?
400
This is what Japan was like before shoguns took control.
What is that the local samurai were always warring with one another?
400
This the country of the sailors who landed in Japan accidentally in 1543?
What is Portugal?
400
This is about the amount of time that Japan was isolated from the Western (European) world.
What is about 250 years?
400
This is the year in which Japan's isolation ended.
What is 1853?
500
The most powerful leader in Japan who controlled it in the emperor's name.
What is the shogun?
500
This fierce mongol leader tried to take over Japan in the 1200's.
Who is Kublai Khan?
500
How did the Portugese influence life in Japan?
What is that they brought guns, traders, missionaries, and Christianity?
500
This is the number of main islands that make up Japan.
What is four?
500
The word that the Japanese called the storm that forced Kublai Khan to abandon his take over of Japan.
What is "kamikaze" which means "divine wind"?