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Literally, great name(s). Japanese warlords and great landowners, whose armed samurai gave them control of the Japanese islands from the eighth to the later nineteenth centruy. Under the Tokugawa Shogunate they were subordinated to the imperial government.
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Daimyo
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Literally "those who serve," the hereditary military elite of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
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Samurai
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(1600-2868) The last of the three shogunates of Japan.
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Tokugawa Shogunate
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(1368-1644) Empire based in China that Zhu Yuanzhang established after the overthrow of the Yuan Empire. The Ming emperor Yongle sponsored the building of the Forbidden City and the voyages of Zheng He. The later years of the Ming saw a slowdown in technological development and economic decline.
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Ming Empire
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(1654-1722) Qing emperor (r.1662-1722). He oversaw the greatest expansion of the Qing Empire.
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Kangxi
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The extreme northeastern sector of Asia, including the Kamchatka Peninsula and the present Russian coast of the Arctic Ocean, the Bering Strait, and the Sea of Okhotsk.
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Siberia
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Peoples of the Russian Empire who lived outside the farming villages, often as herders, mercenaries, or outlaws. Cossacks led the conquest of Siberia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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Cossacks
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In medieval Europe, an agricultural laborer legally bound to a lord's property and obligated to perform set services for the lord. In Russia some serfs worked as artisans and in factories; serfdom was not abolished there until 1861.
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Serf
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(1672-1725) Russian tsar (r. 1689-1725). He enthusiastically introduced Western languages and technologies to the Russian elite, moving the capital from Moscow to the new city of St. Petersburg.
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Peter the Great
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From the Latin "caesar," this Russian title for a monarch was first used in reference to a Russian ruler by Ivan III (r. 1462-1505)
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Tsar
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