Vocab words

Question 1

Shogun

Answer 1

A hereditary commander-in-chief in feudal Japan.

Question 2

Daimyo

Answer 2

(in feudal Japan) One of the great lords who were vassals of the shogun.

Question 3

Zen

Answer 3

A Japanese school of Mahayana Buddhism emphasizing the value of meditation and intuition.

Question 4

Seppuku

Answer 4

Another term for hara-kiri.

Question 5

Samurai

Answer 5

A member of a powerful military caste in feudal Japan, especially a member of the class of military retainers of the daimyos.

Question 6

Longboat

Answer 6

A large boat that may be launched from a sailing ship.

Question 7

Steppe

Answer 7

A large area of flat unforested grassland in southeastern Europe or Siberia.

Question 8

Rus

Answer 8

The medieval Russian state established by Scandinavian traders in the 9th century

Question 9

Slavs

Answer 9

A member of a group of peoples in central and eastern Europe speaking Slavic languages.

Question 10

Principality of Kiev

Answer 10

A Ruthenian state in the regions of central Ukraine around the city of Kiev that existed after the fragmentation of the Kievan Rus’ in the early 12th century.

Question 11

Leif Ericson

Answer 11

An Icelandic explorer and the first known European to have discovered North America (excluding Greenland), before Christopher Columbus.

Question 12

Vinland Sagas

Answer 12

The Saga of Erik the Red and The Saga of the Greenlanders both contain different accounts of Norse voyages

Question 13

Danelaw

Answer 13

A historical name given to the part of England in which the laws of the Danes held sway and dominated those of the Anglo-Saxons.