Question | Answer |
Cultivation | A way to make crops by making terraces and plowing and things. |
terrace | sort of steps made on the side of a mountain to help you plant food and crops. |
feudalism | A system of government where the powerful people swear loyalty where one person gives land in turn for protection. |
Shogun | The person who is basically in control of everybody else and gives land to the damyo who give land to the samarai in return the shogun gets protection. |
Samurai | Basically the army who fights other samurai for land and control |
archipelago | a group of islands |
isolation | to be closed off or separated from others |
Mathew C. Perry | The guy who led the fleets that went over to Japan and opened them up for trade |
embargo | To stop the trade of somthing in this case oil steel and metal to japan. |
expansion | To make the area of land you own bigger and larger. |
kamikaze | Suicide plane drivers who drive into ships wearing heavy explosives killing lots of people |
tokyo | The capital city of Japan |
Hiroshima/ Nagasaki | The city's that got the atomic bombs dropped on them. |
Yen | The system of money overseas |
Mt. Fuji | The highest mountain in japan |
emperor | The most powerful person in japan but he really didn't have power the shoguns do. |
bay | a broad inlet of sea |
over crowding | too many people in one place at a certain time |
pollution | the contaminating of earth by humans. |
Missionary | People who go to other countries to teach people about god. |
Bushido | the code of honor where it goes emperor shogun daimyo samurai peasants |
Haiko | a poem using syllables |
origami | the ancient art of paper folding |