Ch. 11 Vocab Crossword

3. ready for immediate use; accessible
5. a ceramic made of fine clay baked at very high temperatures
8. an interval of time
10. “those who serve”; Japanese warriors similar to the knights of medieval Europe
11. “the Sacred Way” or “the way of the Gods”; the Japanese state religion; among its doctrines are the divinity of the emperor and the sacredness of the Japanese nation
12. “the teachings of the elders”; ancient Buddhist school stressing moral conduct, and championing the monkish lifestyle
13. came into possession or control of
14. a system of principles or rules
16. a chain of islands
17. “general”; a powerful military leader in Japan
18. the way of seeing or believing
19. in China, a group of people who controlled much of the land and produced most of the candidates for civil service
20. “the way of the warrior”; the strict code by which Japanese samurai were supposed to live
22. a gift of money or property paid at the time of marriage, either by the bride’s parents to her husband or, in Islamic societies, by a husband to his wife

1. established; customary
2. to keep in possession or use
4. a revised form of Confucianism that evolved as a response to Buddhism and held sway in China from the late Tang dynasty to the end of the dynastic system in the twentieth century
6. the yield of sources of income that a nation or state collects and deposits into its treasury for public use
7. one of several separate territories into which Genghis Khan’s empire was split, each under the rule of one of his sons
9. the "Great Vehicle"; Buddhist movement emphasizing that Enlightenment is open to all.
14. the state of being complex or of having many intricate parts
15. a sect of Buddhism that became popular with Japanese aristocrats and became part of the samurai’s code of behavior; under Zen Buddhism, there are different paths to enlightenment
21. “great names”; the head of noble families in Japan who controlled vast landed estates and relied on samurai for protection