East Asia Vocab

2. anything related to the sea, oceans, navigation, or shipping
6. a system of philosophical and ethical teachings founded by Confucius and developed by Mencius
8. a member of a powerful military caste in feudal Japan, especially a member of the class of military retainers of the daimyos.
10. an agreement made by opposing sides in a war to stop fighting for a certain time; a truce.
12. a group of people, especially traders or pilgrims, traveling together across a desert in Asia or North Africa.
14. the world's highest and largest elevated plateau, covering roughly 2.5 million square kilometers in Central/East Asia
15. a white vitrified translucent ceramic; china.
16. a group of islands.

1. a large Japanese business conglomerate.
3. Law military government, involving the suspension of ordinary law.
4. a large natural or artificial lake used as a source of water supply.
5. the belief in or worship of multiple deities, typically organized into a system known as a pantheon
7. a demographic measure indicating the frequency of childbirths within a population
9. a japanese cartoon
11. a style of Japanese comic books and graphic novels, typically aimed at adults as well as children.
13. the attribution of a soul to plants, inanimate objects, and natural phenomena.