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Social Studies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What does Edo mean | A member of a people inhabiting the district of Benin in Nigeria |
| What does Kyoto mean | An industrial city in central Japan, on the island of Honshu; pop. 1,461,000. Founded in the 8th century, it was the imperial capital from 794 until 1868 |
| What does Osaka mean | A port and commercial city in central Japan, on the island of Honshu; pop. 2,642,000 |
| What does Nagasaki mean | A city and port in southwestern Japan, on the western coast of Kyushu island; pop. 445,000. On August 9, 1945, it became the target of the second atom bomb dropped by the U.S |
| What does Murasaki Shikibu mean | Murasaki Shikibu (c. 973-c. 1014 or 1025), or Lady Murasaki as she is often known in English, was a Japanese novelist, poet, and a maid of honor of the imperial court during the Heian period of Japan. ... |
| What does Toyotomi Hideyoshi mean | (1536-98). Feudal lord and Imperial minister who rose from peasant roots to complete the sixteenth-century unification of Japan begun by Oda Nobunaga. |
| What does Tokugawa leyasu mean | A general that rose after toyotomi |
| What does artistocrat mean | A government ruled by a few wealthy people |
| What does samurai mean | A member of a powerful military caste in feudal Japan, esp. a member of the class of military retainers of the daimyos |
| What does typhoon mean | A tropical storm in the region of the Indian or western Pacific oceans |
| What does daimyo mean | (in feudal Japan) One of the great lords who were vassals of the shogun |
| What does shogun mean | |
| What does Tokugawa dynasty mean | The last shogunate in Japan (1603–1867), founded by Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543–1616).The shogunate was followed by the restoration of imperial power under Meiji Tenno |
| What does policy of isolation mean | Cut off japan from the goods and culture of most countries |
| What does Edo mean | A member of a people inhabiting the district of Benin in Nigeria |
| What does Kyoto mean | An industrial city in central Japan, on the island of Honshu; pop. 1,461,000. Founded in the 8th century, it was the imperial capital from 794 until 1868 |
| What does Osaka mean | A port and commercial city in central Japan, on the island of Honshu; pop. 2,642,000 |
| What does Nagasaki mean | A city and port in southwestern Japan, on the western coast of Kyushu island; pop. 445,000. On August 9, 1945, it became the target of the second atom bomb dropped by the U.S |
| What does Murasaki Shikibu mean | Murasaki Shikibu (c. 973-c. 1014 or 1025), or Lady Murasaki as she is often known in English, was a Japanese novelist, poet, and a maid of honor of the imperial court during the Heian period of Japan. ... |
| What does Toyotomi Hideyoshi mean | (1536-98). Feudal lord and Imperial minister who rose from peasant roots to complete the sixteenth-century unification of Japan begun by Oda Nobunaga. |
| What does Tokugawa leyasu mean | A general that rose after toyotomi |
| What does artistocrat mean | A government ruled by a few wealthy people |
| What does samurai mean | A member of a powerful military caste in feudal Japan, esp. a member of the class of military retainers of the daimyos |
| What does typhoon mean | A tropical storm in the region of the Indian or western Pacific oceans |
| What does daimyo mean | (in feudal Japan) One of the great lords who were vassals of the shogun |
| What does shogun mean | A hereditary commander-in-chief in feudal Japan. Because of the military power concentrated in his hands and the consequent weakness of the nominal head of state (the mikado or emperor), the shogun was generally the real ruler of the country until feud |
| What does Tokugawa dynasty mean | The last shogunate in Japan (1603–1867), founded by Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543–1616).The shogunate was followed by the restoration of imperial power under Meiji Tenno |
| What does policy of isolation mean | Cut off japan from the goods and culture of most contries |
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