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Chapter 8
The Asian cultures for Chapter 8
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Social Studies
7th Grade
01/25/2012

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Shinto
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The traditional religion of Japan.
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Regent
Definition
A person who rules in a place of an absent ot underage monarch.
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Prince Shotoku
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A regent who ruled Japan from 593 - 622 C.E.
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Embassy
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An office of one country's government in another country
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Zen
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A Japanese form of Buddhism, focusing of self dicipline, simplicty, and meditation
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Noh
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A form of Japanise drama
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Kabuki
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A form of Japanise musical drama
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Lady Murasaki Shikibu
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A Japanese writer
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Haiku
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A Japanese form of poetry that includes 17 syllables arranged in lines of 5,7 and 5 syllables
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Kanji
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Pictograms
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Hiragana
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Symbols of one syllable each used in writing Japanese
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Katakana
Definition
Transcribing languages to Japanese
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Daimyo
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A Japanese lord with large landholdings and a private army
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Samurai
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A trained warrior
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Vassal
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A person who received land and protection from a lord
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Shogun
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A Japanese military leader
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Tokugawa Shogunate
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The rule of Tokugawa leyasu and his successors in Japan
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Koryo
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A kingdom on the Korean peninsula
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Celadon
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A type of Korean pottery
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Nam Viet
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A Veitnamese kingdom conquered by the Chinese
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Khmer Empire
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The most powerful and longest lasting kingdom on the mainland of Southeast Asia, which is modern day Cambodia
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Angkor Wat
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A complex of temples in Southeast Asia, built in the C.E. 1100's.
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