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Samurai were typically encouraged to follow what code of moral behavior?
Mizuhana
Surikaze
Taichi
Bushido
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At multiple points throughout history, samurai found themselves serving what type of feudal Japanese military dictators?
Shoguns
Khans
Dynasts
Onis
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Above samurai and below the shogun were what land-holding warrior class which acted as direct bosses for the samurai?
Onimusha
Shiisas
Hermets
Daimyo
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What founder of the Kamakura Shogunate largely invented the samurai class when he gifted his most loyal warriors with direct titles and their own unique social class?
Minamoto Yoritomo
Minonori Yoshitsune
Akira Teifuda
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
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Minamoto Yoritomo established the samurai class largely to reward warriors who fought to help him win what crucial civil war?
The Alcryd War
The Genpei War
The Kaze War
The Deiin War
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What seven-weaponed samurai famously fought the Genpei War on the behalf of the warlord Minamoto Yoshitsune?
Titian
Benkei
Susanoo
Nagimura
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What term refers to female warriors of the samurai class?
Kairi-Otodo
Setsuhara-Eni
Onna-Musha
Cyradesa
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What famous Onna-Musha was a major leader during the Genpei War and had her tale presented in the book Tale of the Heike?
Seluna
Mia Hisui
Tomoe Gozen
Hsu Renbei
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What is the name of the famous Japanese swordsmith who created some of the most famous samurai weapons of his day to the point that his name is sometimes attached to proven Japanese blacksmiths as a badge of honor?
Shimabara
Soriko
Masamune
Hitoshi
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What is the name for the short swords that samurai started to wield when they were forced to march in closely compacted military ranks?
Katana
Kurukana
Nagitana
Ohachi
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One of the peculiar rights given to samurai was Kiri Sute Gomen that gives warriors which of the following privileges?
They could drink for free at any establishment.
They could kill members of lower social classes.
They could take multiple spouses.
They could democratically elect their own daimyo.
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What sword saint and rogue samurai became known for his 61 undefeated duels that he fought against Japan's other greatest warriors?
Bodi Capalain
Miyamoto Musashi
Takeru Takerou
Saizo Akechi
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What was the title of Miyamoto Musashi's famous philosophical and instructional book that he wrote after his dueling career?
The Book of Five Rings
The Ten Arrows Guide
The Three Cuts Codex
The Eight Swallows Guide
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What term refers to masterless rogue samurai?
Ronin
Saburo
Heian
Shinobi
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In the 13th Century, samurai warriors gained fame throughout Asia by repelling invaders from what Mongolian warlord's armies?
Ogoldai Fein
Kai Wenli
Kublai Khan
Ochs tuthon
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Many samurai used a bow and arrow for long distance combat. What is the Japanese word for a bow?
A sora
A dachi
A yumi
A tanto
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The samurai acted as influential warriors during what infamous "Warring States" period of Japanese history?
The Yayoi Period
The Heian Period
The Sengoku Period
The Toruwara Period
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Yasuke was an African-descended samurai known for his loyal heroics in service of what legendary Sengoku warlord?
Tatsuki Fujiwara
Oda Nobunaga
Kiryu
Seiryu
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After Oda Nobunaga was killed, what samurai daimyo of Nobunaga's took up the quest to try and unite all of Japan under his own banner?
Irou
Sanji
Kuwabara
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
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At the Battle of Sekigahara helped what legendary samurai warlord close out the Sengoku Period by founding a namesake shogunate?
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Satoshi Gozai
Saburo Enishi
Yoshiro Ayazaki
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A primary duty of the samurai during the Tokugawa Shogunate was to protect the kingdom's new capital at what city?
Shinjuku
Iina
Shueisha
Edo
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What English samurai became famous as a foreign policy advisor to Tokugawa Ieyasu while he built his military shogunate?
Anthony Keebler
William Adams
Maxwell Jefferson
Peter Hannigan
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What is the common name given to the five legendary samurai blades that were said to have been divinely inspired because of the great deeds their owners performed?
The Tenka-Goken
The Astra-Sum
The Odachi-Magnum
The Sectum-Daira
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The Shimabara Rebellion saw the Tokugawa Shogunate use its samurai to hunt down ronin armies who defended converts to what faith?
Judaism
Islam
Buddhism
Christianity
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Most samurai traditionally adhered to what faith that taught them to accept pain stoically and not fear death?
Shivaite Hinduism
Sikhism
Shia Islam
Zen Buddhism
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What samurai civil war ended the Tokugawa Shogunate and made way for Japan's next political transformation?
The Sekigahara War
The Boshin War
The Say-Lai War
The Yue War
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After the Boshin War, the power of samurai would be continuously limited as Japan moved into what new age of modernization?
The Atsuo Revolution
The Meiji Restoration
The Revival of Shikoku
The Ankyo Reversion
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In response to the Meiji government's efforts at disbanding the samurai class, many of the last remaining samurai began what uprising that would be their last stand?
The Satsuma Rebellion
The Fukushima Uprising
The Nabuko Rebellion
The Sowari Uprising
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What famous samurai noble who helped build the Meiji government also led the Satsuma Rebellion against it?
Saigo Takamori
Daigo Kashiwagi
Bari Kuroda
Minataka Mikitaka
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What final battle of the Satsuma Rebellion is also called "The Last Stand of the Samurai"?
The Battle of Chubu
The Battle of Hokuriku Pass
The Battle of Nanpo Island
The Battle of Shiroyama
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