Geography
The number of main Islands that make up Japan?
What is 4
The lowest two classes of citizens were referred to as
What is Eta and Hinin?
The National Seclusion Policy was a series of these passed to control the influence of foreigners and tighten control over the daimyo.
What are edicts?
This term refers to a group of attendants or other people who accompany someone, usually of important rank.
What is an entourage?
Japan's climate and landscape allowed farmers to produce and grow this product.
The biggest Island is called
What is Honshu
This group of people held a prestigious role in society and were the first to become literate
What is the Samurai?
Japanese ships were forbidden to do this to other countries
What is travel?
The shogun created and controlled 5 major roadways for the daimyo to travel to get to this city every other year.
What is Edo?
Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi (Monkey Face) and Tokugawa Ieyasu were all Shoguns responsible for bringing Japan together to become one in the late 1500's. This is referred to as
What is Unifying?
The three nearest countries to Japan
What are China, Russia and South Korea.
Title given to a commander who ruled a small region
What is Daimyo?
This was the consequence for people that went abroad, or returned from overseas after living there.
What is execution?
Artisans and Merchants catered to the needs of travellers along newly formed roadways. With more and more city centers of larger populations the economy of the country began to change. Cities could not be self-sufficient so economies or the rural and urban areas became intertwined. Daimyo were allowed to build one castle in these places and they had a name that daimyo and samurai lived in.
What are Castle towns?
This was a system of beliefs was introduced by China through Korea and focused on morals, education, and a strict order of government and society. It replaced Buddhism.
What is Confucianism?
Japan is situated in a volcanic zone know as
What is the Ring of Fire?
This government was run by the Shogun and is more centralized higher level, it controlled the Daimyo.
What is Bakufu?
This edict states that any Barbarians (Westerners) who teach Christianity or commit crimes would face a consequence.
What is prison?
What were Edo, Osaka, and Kyoto?
175 litres of rice is equal to this measurement in Japanese.
What is a Koku?
These landforms help create natural barriers to protect villages
What are Mountains?
The local government in each domain was referred to as this
What is a Han?
This countries ships were banned from Japanese ports. Any ship disobeying this order would be destroyed and its crew and passengers executed.
What is Portugal?
This city became the centre of the Japanese economy due to its development around a very protected harbour. It was famous for its castle which was a Buddhist temple.
What is Osaka?