World History, Grades 9-12

342 Chapter 12 Japanese Samurai Samurai were members of Japan’s warrior class. Early samurai protected local aristocratic landow ...

small landowners traded parts of their land to strong warlords in exchange for protection. With more land, the lords gained more ...

344 Chapter 12 MAIN IDEA WHY IT MATTERS NOW TERMS & NAMES CULTURAL INTERACTION Several smaller kingdoms prospered in East an ...

Empires in East Asia 345 Chinese ideas and culture spread southward in the region through migration and trade. At different time ...

346 Chapter 12 Srivijayas established their capital, Palembang, on Sumatra. Palembang became a great center of Buddhist learning ...

named his new dynasty Koryu. The Koryu Dynasty lasted four and a half centuries, from 935 to 1392. The Koryu Dynasty modeled its ...

East Asian Interaction with China EXAM EXAM Buddhism Writing system Civil service Printing Porcelain -^ Conquest of China -^ Sp ...

Empires in East Asia 349 Use the quotation—part of a message sent by Kublai Khan to Japan’s imperial court—and your knowledge of ...

350 European Middle Ages, 500-1200 Previewing Main Ideas In western Europe, the Roman Empire had broken into many small kingdoms ...

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352 Chapter 13 Peasants cannot marry without their lord’s consent. 4 This peasant feels that the right to stay on his lord’s lan ...

European Middle Ages 353 MAIN IDEA WHY IT MATTERS NOW TERMS & NAMES EMPIRE BUILDINGMany Germanic kingdoms that succeeded the ...

Germanic Kingdoms Emerge In the years of upheaval between 400 and 600, small Germanic kingdoms replaced Roman provinces. The bor ...

Around 520, an Italian monk named Benedict began writing a book describing a strict yet practical set of rules for monasteries. ...

larger than the state of Connecticut. The Franks controlled the largest and strongest of Europe’s kingdoms, the area that was fo ...

European Middle Ages 357 TERMS & NAMES1.For each term or name, write a sentence explaining its significance. Middle Ages • ...

MAIN IDEA WHY IT MATTERS NOW TERMS & NAMES POWER AND AUTHORITY Feudalism, a political and economic system based on land-hold ...

The Vikings were not only warriors but also traders, farmers, and explorers. They ventured far beyond western Europe. Vikings jo ...

360 Chapter 13 effectively defend their lands from invasion. As a result, people no longer looked to a central ruler for securit ...

Feudalism Feudalism was a political system in which nobles were granted the use of land that legally belonged to the king. In re ...