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28 Cards in this Set
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Shinto |
the traditional religion of Japan, based on worship of and respect for nature and ancestors
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Regent |
a person who rules in place of an absent or underage monarch
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Embassy |
an office of one country’s government in another country
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Zen |
a Japanese form of Buddhism, focusing on self discipline, simplicity, and meditation
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Noh |
a form of Japanese drama developed in the AD 1300s, often featuring retellings of legends and folktales presented by actors in painted wooden masks
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Kabuki |
a form of Japanese drama developed in the AD 1600s, featuring melodramatic singing and dancing, heavy makeup, and elaborate costumes
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Haiku |
a Japanese form of poem, containing 17 syllables arranged in three lines of 5, 7, 5 syllables.
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Daimyo |
a Japanese lord with large landholdings and a private samurai army, who paid no taxes to the government |
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Samurai |
a trained warrior of the Japanese aristocracy
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Vassal |
in feudal society, a person who received land and protection from a lord in return for loyalty.
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Shogun |
a Japanese military leader- one of a group that first came to power in AD 1192 and ruled on the emperor’s behalf but usually in their own interests
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Celadon |
a type of Korean pottery, often with a bluish-green color |
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Angkor Wat |
a complex of temples in South east Asia, built in the AD 1100s, that covers nearly one square mile and is the largest religious structure in the world
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Prince Shotoku |
a regent who ruled Japan from AD 593 to 622 and brought elements of Chinese culture-in particular, the Buddhist religion-to the country
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Lady Murasaki Shikibu |
a Japanese writer of the early AD 1000s, who wrote The Tale of Genji considered one of the world’s first novels
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Fujiwara clan |
wealthy nobles who ruled Japan in the 800s
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Oda Nobunaga |
a daimyo who began to reunite Japan and won nearly half of Japan
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Toyotomi Hideyoshi |
Nobunaga’s best general who took his place
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Tokugawa Ieyasu |
successor of Hideyoshi who founded a dynasty in Japan called the Tokugawa Shogunate
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Tokugawa Shogunate |
the rule of Tokugawa Ieyasu and his successors in Japan, which began in AD 1603 and brought a 250 year period of stability to the country
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Silla kingdom |
The kingdom that was founded in Korea by nomads after they overthrew Chinese rule
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Koryo kingdom |
a kingdom of the Korean peninsula, established in AD 935 after the collapse of the Silla kingdom
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Khmer empire |
the most powerful and longest lasting kingdom on the mainland of southeast Asia centered in what is today Cambodia
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Nam Viet |
a Vietnamese kingdom conquered by the Chinese in 111 BC
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Dai Viet |
vietnamese kingdom founded after they overthrew Chinese rule by the Trung sisters
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Japan |
a group of islands 120 miles of the coast of Asia
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Khmer Empire / Cambodia |
in Southeast Asia
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Vietnam |
in Southeast Asia
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