Japan

3. not treated well by upper class
4. Other classes depended on the food they produced.
7. Necessary goods, cooking utensils, woodblock prints, and clothes were made by them
9. Buddhism a Japanese sect of Buddhism that searches for enlightenment through direct intuition through meditation.
10. Dynasty an era of Chinese history from 960-1279 that saw many cultural and technical inventions, including paper money and gunpowder.
13. a traditional religion of Japan that includes worship of ancestors and nature.
14. worked as butchers, tanners, and executioners. There ancestors were slaves.
15. ritual suicide practiced by the Japanese samurai or sometimes formerly ordered by a court instead of the death penalty.

1. Warriors who prove their loyalty to any extent.
2. Khan Mongol conqueror of much of Asia and parts of Europe. He lived from 1162 until 1227.
5. shopkeepers and traders.
6. controlled land and only answered to shoguns.
8. in the Middle Ages, a social system in which nobles allowed people to use their land if they fought for and worked for them.
10. Japanese military leaders who had the most power
11. the code of the samurai in Japan, which valued loyalty and honor.
12. served as religious leaders of Japan; figurehead for shogun.