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Japan Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| cultivation | to prepare and use land for gardening and crops |
| terrace | each of a series of flat areas made on a slope, used for cultivation |
| Feudalism | A system of a government where the all people are loyal to each other and the powerful people get protection and the less powerful people get land |
| shogun | Japanese solider who runs the military and gives land and orders to the daimyo and samurai |
| samurai | Japanese soldiers who fight to the death |
| archipelago | a sea or stretch of water containing many islands |
| isolation | far away from other places, buildings, or people; remote |
| Matthew C. Perry | The commander of the US ships when the US made Japan open up for trade |
| embargo | an official ban on trade or other commercial activity with a particular country |
| expansion | the action of becoming larger or more extensive |
| kamikaze | (in World War II) a Japanese aircraft loaded with explosives and making a deliberate suicidal crash on an enemy target |
| Hiroshima/Nagasaki | Japanese cities that we bombed |
| emperor | a sovereign ruler of great power and rank, esp. one ruling an empire |
| overcrowding | fill (accommodations or a space) beyond what is usual or comfortable |
| missionary | a person sent on a religious mission, esp. one sent to promote Christianity in a foreign country. |
| Haiku | a Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world |
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