European/Asian Unit 2
Terms
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- feudalism
- an organized system of government where local lords(rulers) governed their own lands but owed military service to a greater lord (ruler)
- vassal
- a lord was given land and in return he had to give support and loyalty to a greater lord (ruler)
- knight
- a noble in Europe who served as a mounted warrior for a lord in the Middle Ages
- tournament
- a pretend battle where knights would compete against one another to show off their fighting skills
- autocrat
- a ruler who has complete authority
- patriarch
- highest church officer in a major city
- dynasty
- ruling family
- gentry
- wealthy, landowning class
- shogun
- supreme military commander who had more power than the emperor
- daimyo
- a warrior lord directly below the shogun in feudal Japan
- samurai
- member of the warrior class in Japanese feudal society
- bushido
- code of conduct for samurai during the feudal period in Japan