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Answer all questions given under each heading

Shogunate in Japan


(a) Name the two Daimyo families that fought for power in Japan.


(b) Who emerged successful in the fight?


(c) What was the title given by the Emperor to the victorious?


(d) Where was the capital of the first Shogunate established?


(a) The two Daimyo (military men cum landholders) families were the Tara and the Minamota families. They tended to ignore the ruling powers in Kyoto.


(b) Yoritomo, from the Minamoto family, emerged victorious.


(c) In 1192 AD, Yoritomo was given the title of Sei-i-tai-Shogun, or Barbarian-subduing-Great-General by the Emperor. It was a hereditary title and came with the power to govern.


(d) Yoritomo established the capital of the first Shogunate at Kamakura. So, the first Shogunate is known as the Kamakura Shogunate.


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3 E

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……………. established Ottoman supremacy in the Balkans.


 4

Match the Following

1. Red Turbans – Kamakura


2. Seljuk Turks – Mohammad II


3. First Shogunate – City of Arabian Nights


4. Baghdad – Chu Yuan Chang


5. Capture of Constantinople – Central Asia


 5

Answer all questions given under each heading

Rule of Abbasids


(a) Who were the Abbasids?


(b) What was the title assumed by Abbasid Caliph?


(c) Where did they have their new capital?


(d) In whose period was the Abbasid Empire at the height of its glory?


 6 A

Answer the following briefly

The Great Wall of China.