Feudal Japan

4. Produced food for other classes and lived under a tax burden for lots of the feudal area
5. Tropical hurricane that destroyed the entire Mongol fleet
9. Divine wind
10. Island country in East Asia
12. The types of government practiced in Japan during the Middle Ages
14. The code of the samurai in Japan, which valued loyalty and honor.
16. Bottom of 4 tiers in Feudal Japan / forbidden to mix with higher classes
18. Mongol conqueror of much of Asia and parts of Europe. He lived from 1162 until 1227.
19. In the Middle Ages, a social system in which nobles allowed people to use their land if they fought for and worked for them.
21. Large empire established by Genghis Khan

1. A lord who owned land, pledged allegiance to and served the shogun in feudal Japan.
2. In the Middle Ages, a member of the Japanese warrior class.
3. Produced clothes, cooking utensils, woodblock prints, & more goods
6. A traditional religion of Japan that includes worship of ancestors and nature.
7. A Japanese sect of Buddhism that searches for enlightenment through direct intuition through meditation
8. Major effect of the Grand Canal in China
11. Highest position in Japan
13. An era of Chinese history from 960-1279 that saw many cultural and technical inventions, including paper money and gunpowder.
15. In the Middle Ages, a Japanese military leader.
17. Ritual suicide practiced by the Japanese samurai or sometimes formerly ordered by a court instead of the death penalty.
20. Ethnic minority / descendants of slaves