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sack
dynasty
utopian
schism
feudalism
serf
fief
hierarchy
excommunicate
Bushido
shogun
Shinto

Sack- a large bag of strong, coarsely woven material, as for grain, potatoes, or coal.

Dynast-a sequence of rulers from the same family, stock, or group

Utopian-of, relating to or resembling Utopia, an idealized imaginary island described in Sir Thomas More's Utopia (1516).

Schism-division or disunion, especially into mutually opposed parties.

Feudalism-the feudal system, or its principles and practices.

Serf-a person in a condition of servitude, required to render services to a lord, commonly attached to the lord's land and transferred with it from one owner to another.

Fier-a fee or feud held of a feudal lord; a tenure of land subject to feudal obligations.

Hierachy-any system of persons or things ranked one above another.

Excommunicate-to cut off from communion with a church or exclude from the sacraments of a church by ecclesiastical sentence

Bushido-(in feudal Japan) the code of the samurai, stressing unquestioning loyalty and obedience and valuing honor above life.

Shogun-the title applied to the chief military commanders from about the 8th -century a.d. to the end of the 12th century, then applied to the hereditary officials who governed Japan, with the emperor as nominal ruler, until 1868, when the shogunate was terminated and the ruling power was returned to the emperor.

Shinto-Also Shin·to·ism. the native religion of Japan, primarily a system of nature and ancestor worship.

pepin the short[a] (german: pippin der kurze, french: pépin le bref, c. 714 – 24 september 768) was the king of the franks from 751 until his death. he was the first of the carolingians to become king.[b][2]

the younger son of the frankish prince charles martel and his wife rotrude, pepin's upbringing was distinguished by the ecclesiastical education he had received from the monks of st. denis. succeeding his father as the mayor of the palace in 741, pepin reigned over francia jointly with his elder brother carloman. pepin ruled in neustria, burgundy, and provence, while his brother carloman established himself in austrasia, alemannia and thuringia. the brothers were active in suppressing revolts led by the bavarians, aquitanians, saxons, and the alemanni in the early years of their reign. in 743, they ended the frankish interregnum by choosing childeric iii, who was to be the last merovingian monarch, as figurehead king of the franks.