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10 Cards in this Set
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Samurai |
a member of a powerful warrior class in Japan |
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Shogun |
the head of the military government of Japan in the era of the samurai |
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Empire |
a large territory in which several groups of people are ruled by a single leader or government |
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Guild |
an organization of people in the same craft or trade |
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Serf |
a peasant who could not leave the lord’s land on which he or she was born and worked |
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Scribe |
a person trained to write or copy documents by hand |
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Feudalism |
the economic and political system of medieval Europe in which people exchanged loyalty and labor for a lord's protection |
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Hierarchy |
a system of organization with lower and higher positions |
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Magna Carta |
a written legal agreement signed in 1215 that limited the English monarch’s power |
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Charlemagne |
the leader of the Franks from 768 to 814 C.E., who unified most of the Christian lands of Europe into a single empire
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