Geography
What is an archipelago?
What is a chain of islands?
What topic does Haiku usually deal with?
What is nature?
Why was the emperor granted so much power?
What are the people believed the emperor was related to the sun goddess?
What is the focus of the Shinto religion?
Gentle aspects of nature: rivers, rocks, trees, etc.
What is a type of Buddhism developed in Japan that emphasizes meditation and thoughtful tasks the way to peace.
Zen Buddhism
What is the term for the nations that border the Pacific Ocean?
What is the Pacific Rim?
A person of the upper or noble class whose status is usually inherited.
What is an aristocrat?
What was the job of a Samurai?
What was their job was fighting wars?
How does a Buddhist achieve peace?
They overcome feelings of desire.
Which country wsa successful in getting the first trace agreement with Japan?
The USA.
What sentence best describes the geography of Japan?
What is Japan is four large and thousands of small islands located east of Korea?
What is Kabuki?
What is a Japanese drama/play with singing and dancing?
What is Bashido?
What is a code of values for warriors?
What is the “Eightfold Path”?
It is eight steps a Buddhist takes to achieve peace and enlightenment.
Who was Commodore Matthew Perry?
He forced the Japanese to sign a trade treaty.
What bodies of water border Japan?
What are the East China Sea, the Sea of Japan, and The Pacific Ocean?
What is a haiku?
What is Haiku is a form of poetry having seventeen syllables and three lines?
What was the role of a shogun in feudal Japan?
What is he was a military ruler and he had political power?
Where did the Japanese get their beliefs of Buddhism?
The Koreans introduced it to them.
How did the Mongol’s fail?
Fierce storms blew in and destroyed their vessels and killed 1/3 of their troops.
What types of weather and natural disasters does Japan have?
What are typhoons and earthquakes?
Who attended Kabuki?
What is Kabuki was attended by the townspeople, but not the samurai or upper classes?
Who was the daimyo?
What is they were lords who ruled over large portions of land?
What is the Noble Truth?
Life is filled with suffering.
What were the Jesuits trying to accomplish in Japan?
They wanted to set up permanent missions and convert the Japanese people to Catholicism.