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What is the biggest island of Japan?
Honshu
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In 400 AD what district did clans settle in?
Yamato
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Who gave Shinto the name "Shinto"?
Buddhist missionaries
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What was Commodore Matthew Perry's goal in the United States fleet he sent to Japan?
To end Japan's policy of isolation
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About how long is the growing season of Japan?
200-260 days
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In the 500s missionaries from Korea brought what two cultures to Japan?
Buddhism and Chinese
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What did Zen Buddhism offer to samurai?
A way to develop mental and physical self-control
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What was the new government of 1889 meant to do?
Unite Japan and make it equal to western power
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What made Japan more dependent on world trade?
Industrialization/needing raw materials
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What was the first written language in Japan?
Chinese
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If a man did not have a son, who would he adopt to be his heir?
a son-in-law/child of another family
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Why did the Japanese victory in the Russo-Japanese war stun western nations?
Fo the first time in modern history, an Asian nation had defeated a major European power
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What has Japan's sense of specialness encouraged?
Ethnocentrism
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In what year were foreigners forbidden to enter Japan?
1639
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What could wealthy merchants not spend their money on?
Silk clothes
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Why was the prime minister of Japan assassinated?
He didn't support the Manchurian conquest