Across
- 1. Japanese religion that taught that there were spirits in all living and non-living things called Kami'
- 3. warrior class (like the knights) pledged oaths of loyalty to their military leader
- 4. samurai code of conduct demanded loyalty fearlessness in battle and honorable in life
- 5. 1603-1867 closed of Japan from Europe for 250 years as they distrusted Europeans and Christianity and felt superior to European culture and issued the Act of Seclusion in 1636
- 7. chain of islands and irregular coastlines
- 9. belief in more than one god
- 10. decentralized political system in which power and land was distributed among nobles
- 11. landowning nobles and lords that owned large estates of land and demanded taxes from the people that lived on them they were wealthy and powerful
- 13. farmers artisans were poorest class of Japan but their work was valued
- 14. top military commander whose job it was to help train the army and protect Japan
Down
- 1. family dynasties which ruled Japan until 1867
- 2. an underground fault-line that causes many natural disasters
- 6. clan held the highest rank in society and claimed to be a descendant of the sun god, a symbol held no political power
- 8. lowest class in Japanese feudal system they were wealthy but their work was not respected as they made money off of other peoples work
- 12. ritual suicide a blade to stab themselves in stomach of samurai brought shame to their families