Geography
What type of land mass is Japan?
Island
What was one prominent early culture in Japan?
Ainu
Was early Japan influenced by outside cultures?
No
Regent
What year was Elrose first made a village?
1914
What percentage of Japan is flat?
20%
What kind of villages did the Japanese live in?
farming villages.
In the mid 500s, what cultures did Japanese leaders want to learn more about?
China and Korea
Clans
Group of people (usually extended family)
How many school days are left until summer
10 including today
What large landmasses cover most of Japan?
Mountains
What ruled the Japanese villages?
Clans
What did the Japanese emperors hope they could learn from China and Korea?
New ways of working and thinking.
Shinto
Traditional Japanese religion
What do you call a zombie riding a chicken?
Chicken Jockey
In the flat/costal areas.
What did the Japanese believe their clan chiefs were descended from?
What language did Japanese people first write in?
Chinese (also known as Middle Chinese at the time)
Kami
Goddess of the sun
How did the Islands' location affect the people's social structure?
It separated them from other people in Asia and made their social structure unique.
What is the traditional religion of Japan
Shinto
What ideology did Prince Shotoku adopt that changed the structure of Japanese families?
Confucianism
Confucianism
Chinese philosophy/religion that emphasizes harmony.