Geography
Belief Systems
Government
Tech / Econ
Culture
100
Japan is this type of landform: Peninsula, Island, or Continent.
What is an Island?
100
Japanese religious tradition based on respect for nature and ancestors
What is Shinto?
100
Official who rules until a child who will become an emperor or empress is able to rule.
What is a regent?
100
A large landowner in medieval Japan.
What is a daimyo?
100
A form of poetry with 17 syllables - three lines of 5,7, and 5 syllables.
What is a haiku?
200
At least two other civilizations that were close to Japan besides China.
What is either Korea, Vietnam or Nam Viet, Khmer, or India.
200
This belief system began in India and then moved to China then Korea, and finally also to Japan.
What is buddhism?
200
Office of a government in another country.
What is an embassy?
200
A temple complex of the Khmer Empire and the largest religious structure in the world.
What is Angkor Wat?
200
A style of drama developed in Japan in the early 1600's that combines singing, dancing, and elaborate costumes.
What is kabuki?
300
The name of the powerful empire that was located between China and India.
What is the Khmer Empire?
300
The two main systems of belief that influenced Prince Shotoku and his work.
What is Buddhism and Confucianism?
300
The person who had the real power in Japan, not the emperor.
Who is the shogun?
300
A person who receives land and protection from a lord in return for loyalty.
Who is a vassal?
300
The novel that Lady Murasaki Shikibu wrote.
What is The Tale of the Genji?
400
The meaning of the name "Jih-pen" that the Chinese gave to the islands off the east coast of China.
What is land of the rising sun?
400
The reason that Zen Buddhism became popular with samurai.
What is they thought it gave them inner peace and aided them in battle?
400
This led to a military government in Japan for over 700 years.
What is the daimyo gained and held power with the help of their armies?
400
Prince Shotoku built this temple to fulfill a promise to four Buddhist gods that would later be used to house four helpful Japanese institutions.
What is the Temple of the Four Guardians?
400
Samurai warriors lived by this code of honor.
What is bushido?
500
One way that Korea and the empires of southeast Asia were both hurt and helped by their nearness to China.
What is hurt by invasion and/or occupation and helped by Buddhism, Confucianism, Daoism, paper-making, printing, artistic styles, and rice farming techniques.
500
At least 4 belief systems we have studied during this chapter on Japan.
What is 4 of either Buddhism, Shinto, Confucianism, Daoism, or Hinduism?
500
How the seventeen article constitution created by Prince Shotoku is different from most other constitutions.
What is it lists rules for acceptable behavior rather than explaining the government's structure and laws?
500
The Tokugawa Shogunate feared that foreign influences might negatively change Japan, so they banned nearly all foreign contact, leaving Japan in this lonely state.
What is isolation?
500
First one to write out a haiku that makes sense and follows all the rules of haiku poetry.
What is congratulations you're a poet!
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