Middle Ages Crossword Puzzle
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- 5. The native religon of Japan.
- 8. The office or rule of a Shogun.
- 10. The area governed by a Khan.
- 11. Hinayanist name for Hinayana.
- 14. Of or pertaining to an eclectic philosophical movement of the 12th to the 16th centuries, incorporating Taoist and Buddhist elements with an adaptation of Confucianism.
- 15. A Mahayana movementthat emphasizes enlightenment for the student by the most direct possible means.
- 16. The money, goods, or estate that a wife brings to her husband at marriage.
- 17. Inheriting or determining descent through the female line.
- 18. A member of any of several Negroid peoples forming a linguistically and in some respects culturally interrelated family in central and southern Africa.
- 19. One of the great feudal lords who were vassals to the shogun.
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- 1. A member of a hereditary caste among the peoples of western Africa whose function is to keep an oral history of the tribe
- 2. The later of the two great schools of Buddhism, chiefly in China, Tibet, and Japan, characterized by eclecticism and a general belief in a common search for salvation, sometimes thought to be attainable through faith alone.
- 3. The line of descendants in a group.
- 4. A member of the hereditary warrior in feudal Japan.
- 6. The code of the samurai in feudal Japan.
- 7. A very strong translucent material.
- 9. Inheriting or determining descent through the female line.
- 12. Prophet.
- 13. The title applied to chief military commanders in Japan.
- 17. An area with relatively flat land. Often surrounded by canyons.