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New Asian Empires
Japan
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Japan used to have what kind of government until it collapsed? | absolute monarchy |
| What was the name of Japan's new form of government? | Feudalism |
| What was an important characteristic of feudalism? | decentralized |
| What is feudalism? | a decentralized form of government based on a system of allegiance in which a person only owes loyalty one step up and one step down. |
| Who primarily had the most power in Japan? | Warlords |
| Japanese professional warriors | Samurai |
| What were the two main rules that a samurai had to follow? | Serve your master and your lord till death, and defend your own honor or you are worthless. |
| If a samurai lost his honor, he is no longer a samurai and is called what? | Ronin |
| If one were to stain their own honor, who else's honor would be affected? | Samurai's family |
| Ritual suicide performed to regain honor; involved one stabbing himself in the stomach | Seppuku |
| What was the code of the samurai? | Bushido |
| The Japanese preferred which; gaudy fighting and showing off or one skilled killing strike? | one killing strike |
| What were the 2 dominant religions for samurai? | Zen Buddhism and Shintoism |
| The rise of the Shogun was when? | 1192 |
| Minamoto Yoritomo was the first to be granted what title in Japan? | Shogun |
| What was the name of Minamoto Yoritomo's shogunate? | the Kamakura Shogunate |
| When the Mongols tried to invade, what happens? | A typhoon hits and wrecks a majority of Mongol fleet, and then the shogun forces destroy the rest |
| The legend where 47 samurai act as Ronin after their master is dead, really end up taking revenge against Lord Kira to restore their lord's honor. 46 commit seppuku, the 47th is kept alive to serve as a reminder of what a real samurai was. | The Fourty-Seven Ronin |
| When is the Kamakura shogunate overthrown? | 1338 |
| When did Tokugawa Ieyasu rise to power? | 1603 |
| What were two important battles of his? | Battle of Okugawa Castle and Battle of Sekigahara |
| Ieyasu moved the capital of Japan to where? | Edo (Tokyo) |
| Samurai were put out of work eventually because of what? | the long time of peace |
| What was Korea's primary kingdom called? | The Choson Kingdom |
| Who was Korea conquered and forced into vassal state by? | The Qing Dynasty in China |
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