History Year 8

Significance

The importance of an event

Perspectives

The way a person or particualr people view some aspects of the past

Evidence

The information or clues discovered by asking specific questions about a historical source

Empathy

The ability to understand what happened in the past by imagining how people living at the time thought, felt and experienced events

Continuity and change

the recognition that while many things change over time some continue

Contestability

The idea that an interpretation or hypothesis may be challenged or left open to debate because of lack of evidence

Cause and effect

The link between what causes an action or what motivates someone to act in a certain way, and the outcome of that action

Canon law

Ecclesiastical law, especially in the roman catholic church that is laid down by papal pronouncements.

Christianity

The religion based on the person and teachings of Jesus Christ

Clergy

People ordained for religious duties (especially in the Christian church)

Crusades

Series of wars fought by Christians and muslims between 1096 and 1291 CE over control of the holy land

Excommunication

A religious punishment that involved cutting someone off from the church community

Feudalism

A set of legal and military customs that served to organise the society of medieval Europe, under feudalism , a lord gave a fief to a vassal in exchange for loyalty and support

fief

Land given by a lord to a vassal in Medieval Europe, in return for loyalty or service

Flagellants

A group of radical christians during the black death who whipped themselves to gain god’s forgiveness for their sins.

Heresy

Doing or saying something regarded by the medieval Catholic Church (and by some other faiths) as being in serious conflicts with it’s teachings

Holy Land

A territory in today’s middle east now mostly made up of Israel and Palestine

Knight

A medieval warrior of europe, who typically pledged his services to a lord in exchange for a fief

Monarch

King or Queen who administered the country.

Nobles

Wealthy subjects who lived on land granted to them in large manor houses.

Serf

A medieval peasant who worked on the manor of a feudal lord.

Tithe

One tenth of annual produce or earnings, formerly taken as a contribution for the support of the Catholic Church and Clergy

Treason

Doing something against the laws or seen as a betrayal to the king

Turning point

Event or development that leads to a major change in the direction of history

Vassal

Under feudalism, a person who offered his loyalty and service to a lord in return for his protection and the granting of a fief

Archipelago

An area that contains a group or chain of islands scattered in lakes, rivers or the ocean

Bakufu

The japanese term for the shogunate government

Bushido

The code of behaviour of the Japanese samurai warriors.

Edict

An official order issued by the shogun that people were expected to obey

Daimyo

A japanese lord, vassal to the shogun

Emperor

A sovereign ruler of great power and rank, especially one ruling an empire.

Outcast

A person who has been rejected by society or a social group due to their occupation conflicting with japanese religious beliefs.

ronin

A samuri without a master or lord.

Sakoku

Name of the japanese policy of isolation (stopping people from going in or out of japan)

Samurai

A medieval warrior

Sankin kotai

A rule that makes Daimyo live in the tokugawa castle at periods of time

Seppuku

A ritual suicide for samurai that feel they have been dishonoured

Shogun

A title given to Japan’s top military rulers in the 12th to 19th centuries

Westernisation/modernisation

When societies adopt things considered like western and modern cultures

What was the feudal japan social hierarchy

if something happened in the 1800s what century did it happen in?

the 19th century

what happened in the meiji restoration

n 1868, Japan overthrew its military ruler (Shogun) and restored power to the Emperor to rapidly modernise and avoid Western colonisation.

How did the meiji restoration impact modernisation

The Meiji Restoration forced rapid modernisation by replacing feudalism with Western-style industry

how did the meiji restoration impact shoguns, daiymos and samuris

loss of power, forced modernization

how did the meiji restoration impact emperors

gained power and treated as living gods

which religion got affected the most by the black death?

Jewish people got punished because people thought they were poisoning the wells

what happened in the genpei war

A national civil war in japan that ended the heian period and established the first samurai led government

What are all of shogunate japans eras

Kamakura Shogunate
Ashikaga (Muromachi) Shogunate
Transition: Azuchi–Momoyama Period
Tokugawa (Edo) Shogunate