Geography
Korea is an example of this type of land form.
What is a peninsula?
Japan adopted most of its ideas and culture from which two countries?
China and Korea
True or false, even though the Emperors still were considered the leaders of Japan the Shoguns had most of the real Power
True
What were medieval warriors called in Japan?
samurai
The traditional religion of Japan
Shinto
The 70% of Korean land is .
mountainous
the code of honor and morals developed by the Japanese samurai.
What is Bushido
people who worked the land or served the nobles
peasant
In the 500s, this religion reached Japan from Korea.
What is Buddhism?
A religion based on the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama.
Buddhism
Japan is on an archipelago which means:
On a Chain of Islands (volcanic)
The writing system of the Korean language.
What is Hangul?
In the feudal Hierarchy, which person held the most power?
Shogun
The Koguryo, Paekche, and Silla are the names of these.
What are the Three Kingdoms?
Author of the Dao de jing and founder of Daoism
Laozi (Lao Tzu)
Seasonal wind, especially in the Indian Ocean and southern Asia.
What is a monsoon?
Most Japanese people under shoguns came to believe in two different belief systems. What are these two systems?
What is Shinto & Buddhism?
one of the great lords who were vassals of the shogun.
Daimyo
Porcelain made in Korea with an unusual blue-green glaze
What is Celadon?
What is the term for a small group that branches off of a main religion?
Sect
Whoever controlled the Strait of Malacca or the Sunda Strait in SE Asia could control ________ throughout the region.
What is trade?
The modern name for Korea comes from this dynasty.
What is the Koryo dynasty?
Why did the shoguns have all of the Power in Japan as opposed to the emperor?
They controlled the military
Lady Murasaki Shikibu wrote a diary and more than 120 poems, along with this famous story about the romances and adventures of a Japanese prince.
What is "The Tale of Genji"?
What is one sect of Buddhism?
(Zen, Shingon, Mahayana) Buddhism