Vocab
This is a group of families related by blood or marriage.
What are clans?
What is the largest island
What is Honshu
What religion did the Japanese believe in
Shinto
How did japan’s geography shape its society?
It shaped society since it was separated from the rest of Asia. Japan then came up with its own government, religion, art, and literature. Also because only 20% of Japan was able to be farmed be had to fish for food.
This chain of islands resides in the Pacific Ocean.
What/where is japan?
Yamato prince who made a constitution.
Who is Shotoku?
What are the names of the spirits of nature.
What is Kami?
What title did Jimmu take
Emperor of heaven
What do historians know about the rise of Yamato?
They know that in the A.D. 500s a clan called the Yamato was strong enough to rule most of Japan. Yamato chiefs claimed they were descended from the sun goddess. A Yamato leader, Jimmu, found a line of leaders that had never been broken.
2 skills the Yamato learned form the Chinese and the Koreans.
What is pottery from a potters wheel and rice grown in paddies.
A plan of Government.
What is a constitution?
Who is shotoku
What is a Yamato Prince
What are the 4 largest islands
Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku Kyushu
The Japaneses came from what part of Asia?
Northeast Asia
Shotoku took charge of Japan on behalf of his aunt who?
Who is Empress Suiko?
Ruler who claimed tittle “emperor of heaven”.
Who is Jimmu
Who is Jimmu
A Yamato Leader
What is Japan’s oldest temple and the world’s oldest surviving wooden castle
Horyuji
What ideas influenced Prince Shotoku?
Chinese ideas of government, art, philosophy, and medicine.
They two groups ruling japan that we studied in this chapter.
What is the Yamato and the Yayoi?
The four largest islands in Japan.
What are Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu.
What is Shinto
Who is Shotoku’s aunt
Empress Suiko
How did the Japanese honor the Kami?
They honored the Kami by worshipping at shrines and priests, musicians, and dancers would perform rituals.
How much of Japan’s land is farmable.
What is 20%?