Vocabulary
What is a clan?
A group of related families by blood or marriage
How many islands does Japan have?
they made pottery with what
What is a potters wheel
What is a clan?
What is a group of families related by blood or marriage
How did Japan’s geography shape its society?
The sea acted as both a trade route and natural barrier, mountains made farming hard, forcing them to rely on seafood
What is the largest island in Japan?
Honshu
What is a group of families related by blood or marriage?
A clan
An important part of japans diet
What is sea food
How did the Japanese use their surroundings to survive?
What is they used the sea to get seafood and travel for trade
What do historians know about the rising of the Yamato?
Jimmu took the title of “emperor of heaven” and founded a line of rulers that has never been broken
Where did the Japanese worship the Kami?
In A.D. 600 who took charge of Japan?
To honor the spirits they worshiped at
What is shrines
What skills did the Yayoi practice that they may have learned from the Chinese and Koreans?
What is they made pottery, grew rice in paddies, and were skilled in metalworking
What Chinese ideas influenced Shotoku?
He used China as a model for an ideal government, laws were based off of Confucian ideas
Name the 4 largest islands in Japan
Shikoku, Kyushu, Honshu, Hokkaido
What was the first thing Shotoku created for Japan?
A constitution
There is only __ percent of japans land can be farmed
What is 20%
How did Shotoku strengthen Japan’s government?
What is he sent officials and students to study in China. He gave all power to the emperor. He started the Great Change
How did he Japanese honor the Kami?
They worshipped at shrines and performed rituals
Define animism
To believe in your own spirits
What is a shrine?
What is a holy place where people pray and do rituals.
What is japan mostly covered by
Wha is mountains
What is Shotoku took charge of Japan
List THREE of Prince Shotoku’s reforms
Made a constitution, sent officials to China to study, ordered Buddhist temples and monasteries to be built, divided Japan into provinces, made it so that all land came under the emperor’s control, and part of the harvest was used as taxes instead of money