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AP Upshur 6
Chapter 6 by Mina
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Caves in central India that are the site of marvelous early frescoes inspired by Hinduism and Buddhism. | Ajanta Caves |
| The military-style government of the Japanese shoguns. | Bakufu |
| The code of conduct of the samurai, or Japanese warriors. | Bushido |
| The noble clan that controlled the government of Japan between the ninth and twelfth centuries | Fujiwara clan |
| Wife of the Hindu god Shiva, she was both the cosmic mother and the goddess of destruction. | Kali |
| The rule by members of a noble Japanese clan from the late twelfth to the mid-fourteenth century in the name of the emperor, who was their puppet. | Kamakura shogunate |
| The inhabitants of Cambodia; founders of a large empire in ancient Southeast Asia. | Khmers |
| An important Hindu god who is an incarnation of the god Vishnu | Krishna |
| An eleventh- and twelfth-century c.e. revival of Confucian thought. It became the accepted doctrine in China, Japan, and Korea. | Neo-Confucianism |
| A Japanese sect of Buddhism founded by the monk Nicheren in the thirteenth century. | Nicheren sect |
| A collection of mythical stories about Hindu gods and goddesses. | Puranas |
| A Hindu text that illustrates important aspects of the religion; its heroes, Rama and his wife Sita, are worshipped as the embodiment of the ideal man and woman. | Ramayana |
| Hereditary warrior-aristocrats of feudal Japan. | Samurai |
| The indigenous religion of Japan, it was polytheistic and stressed the importance of nature. | Shintoism |
| An important member of the Hindu pantheon, along with his wife Kali (Durga). God of destruction and fertility. | Shiva |
| Ruled China from 581 to 618 c.e.; era of disunity that paved the way for the T´ang dynasty. | Sui dynasty |
| A Hindu savior god who, through his nine incarnations, saves the world from destruction; in one incarnation he was Krishna, in another Gautama Buddha. | Vishnu |
| The earliest known government of Japan; headed by the Yamato family. | Yamato state |
| The Japanese form of Ch´an Buddhism. | Zen Buddhism |