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16 Cards in this Set
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currency
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money
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draft
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a system for choosing citizens to serve in an army
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porcelain
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a kind of clay pottery so thin it looks almost clear
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khan
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the title given to strong Mongol leaders who sometimes brought rival clans together and created almost unstoppable fighting forces
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plunder
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to take goods by force
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daimyo]
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a local noble in fuedal Japan
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kami
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in the Shinto religion, spirits that live in all natural things.
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regent
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a person who governs in place of a ruler
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samurai
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a Japanese warrior
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Shinto
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a religion of Japan. The word means "the way of the gods"
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shogun
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in Japan, a "leading general" who held all the authority
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typhoon
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a type of fierce storm
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chinampa
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an island made from platforms of woven reeds
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mesa
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a flat-topped hill with steep slopes
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Mound Builders
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people who lived in Eastern Woodlands region of North America. They got their name from the mounds of earth they used to bury their dead and to build temples on.
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pueble
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an apartment-like shelter built on a cliff ledge or on a mesa in what is now the southwestern part of the US
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