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| the warriors in Japan who swore to serve their leaders and obeyed a strict code of rules without question |
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| the powerful estate owners in Japan who hired their own samurai warriors to protect them, and peasants to farm their lands |
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| a Japanese samurai's set of rules the stressed honor, discipline , and simple living |
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| a system of power in Japan in which less powerful people promise loyalty to the powerful. in Japan, the powerful person was the shogun. |
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| the most powerful lord in fuedal Japan; the first shogun took power in 1192 to create a period of military rule with the shoguns in power. |
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| a group of families who trace their roots to the same ancestor; Japan was ruled by clans in the Heian period. |
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| this city was first government center for Japan's Emperors before the feudal period began. |
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| the great Mongol Emperor who failed to invade Japan twice in 1274 and 1281 |
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| as shogun, he isolated Japan from Westerners, and improved the culture |
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| the first shogun named by the Emperor of Japan 1192 |
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| the powerful family that won control of Japan in 1192 against the Taira family |
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| the first Europeans to open trade with Japan when a ship was lost only to land on the Japanese islands |
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| what the sea provided the Japanese with throughout their history |
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| Japanese samurai warriors who had no lords or masters |
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