Culture/ Diffusion
This term describes a group’s shared behaviors, beliefs, values, and traditions.
Culture
This term means a line of rulers from the same family.
Dynasty
These Japanese warriors served powerful landowners.
Samurai
This military class fought for lords in medieval Europe.
Knights
This French word means “rebirth” and names a period of new ideas in Europe.
Renaissance
This process spreads cultural ideas, beliefs, and technologies from one group to another.
Cultural diffusion
The Ming rebuilt and extended this enormous defensive structure.
Great Wall of China
This Japanese poem uses three lines with a 5–7–5 syllable pattern.
Haiku
These peasants formed the farming class in the feudal system.
Serfs
The Renaissance began in
Italy
Clothing, tools, and other physical objects belong to this type of culture.
Material culture
This test helped determine who could become a government official.
Civil service exam
These powerful landowners held much of the power in feudal Japan.
Daimyo
This system exchanged land and protection for service, labor, and loyalty.
Feudalism
This movement emphasized the individual and the study of classical Greek and Roman literature.
Humanism
Beliefs, values, and attitudes belong to this type of culture.
Non-material culture
This grandson conquered China and ruled during the Yuan Dynasty.
Kublai Khan
This Japanese religion centers on nature worship. "Grandma Garden"
Shintoism
This medieval king encouraged learning and ruled lands in modern France, Germany, and Italy.
Charlemagne
This wealthy Italian family financially supported Renaissance artists.
Medici Family
Family, education, religion, and government are examples of these organized parts of society.
Social institutions
In this government system, officials come from noble families.
Aristocracy
This form of Buddhism emphasizes proper conduct and reaching enlightenment.
Zen Buddhism
This term means the law of the Church.
Canon law
This Dutch priest criticized corruption in the Roman Catholic Church and helped prepare the way for religious reform.
Erasmus