PEOPLE
This is a type of natural disaster that Japan does not get, similar to a typhoon.
What is a hurricane.
Why did Japan decide to trade with the USA?
They saw what happened to China during the Opium wars with England.
Which period was characterized by isolation?
What is the Edo period?
What was a main factor that started the decline of the Edo period?
Natural disasters
Which social class would benefit most from a change in the hierarchy during Edo Japan?
Merchants - they were at the bottom of the hierarchy and had limited social status and political power.
What area of the country did the majority of people live near and why?
The coast because of the mountains near the interior.
What was a negative aspect near the beginning of the Meiji period as it relates to westernization?
Japan was losing its cultural uniqueness and becoming another "western" country.
What was the order of the class system in feudal Japan?
What is Emperor, Shogun, Daimyo, Samurai, Ronin, Farmer, Artisan, Merchant
Japan needed to rapidly do this in order to keep up with the western powers.
What is modernize/industrialize?
The supreme ruler of Meiji Japan
Who was the Emperor Meiji
The Indigenous people of Japan
Who are the AINU?
Which period was characterized by Western changes?
What is the Meiji period?
What was the name of the American that demanded Japan open up for trading?
Commodore Matthew Perry.
The elite warrior class of Edo Japan
What is the SAMURAI
The geographic term for a chain of islands
What is an archipelago?
What were some results of the Iwakura mission?
Shinto should be adopted as Japan's main religion.
The government made military service mandatory, and strengthened its army to defend itself and expand its territory and colonize.
What people that pracitce Shintoism believe happens when you die.
You become a kami.
What was Japan worried about when Europeans started to visit and trade before the Edo period?
They were worried their religion were have them loyal to only one, God, as opposed to those above them (Daimyo and Shogun).
How was the emperor restored to power?
A group of Samurai led the fight to defeat the Shogunate's supporters and restore the Emperor to power.
The names of Japan's capitals during the Edo and Meiji Period
What is Edo and Tokyo?
The followers of this religion believe that spiritual powers exist in the natural world
What is Shinto?
During the Edo period, which social class had the most respect?
Samurai (however farmers were considered the most important, half points)
What are the '5 edicts' of the exclusion laws?
1. All foreigners must leave
2. Japanese out of country may not return
3. Foriegn Books burned
4. Large ships destroyed
5. Japanese could not leave