what is a Samurai?
Samurai were warriors who were mobilized by daimyo to fight the late 1500s wars.
This religion was heavily suppressed during the Tokugawa shogunate to maintain control and limit foreign influence
What is Christianity?
name a famous type of theater in japan
Bunraku, kabuki, noh, etc
The Opium War was triggered by China's attempts to halt the importation of this narcotic substance, which Britain relied on for trade.
opium
This war, fought between Japan and Russia from 1904 to 1905, marked the first major military victory of an Asian power over a European power in modern history.
What is the Russo-Japanese War?
Name three religions that Japan started with.
Buddhism, Confucianism, Shinto
what is alternate attendance?
Tokugawa Shogunate policy that required daimyo (or provincial lords) to divide their time between the capital of their own domain and the shogun's capital city of Edo (Tokyo)
This catastrophic event struck Edo in 1703, resulting in widespread destruction and loss of life.
What is the Great Genroku Earthquake?
This American naval officer is known for his role in opening Japan to trade with the West in the mid-19th century.
Matthew Perry
The Russo-Japanese War, fought from 1904 to 1905, was sparked by disputes over control of the Liaodong Peninsula and this adjacent region.
What is Manchuria
Who were the three unifiers of Japan?
Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Tokugawa Ieyasu
What is a shogun?
A shogun was a military ruler in Japan.
As the Edo period leads to peace, what is the new role for the samurai?
After the wars ended, few samurai returned to supervise their lands. Few samurais became town- and city dwellers, living in castle towns or serving at the shogun's castle in Edo.
The Treaty of Nanjing, signed in 1842 at the end of the Opium War, ceded this territory to Britain and opened several Chinese ports to British trade.
What is Hong Kong
This treaty, signed in 1905, ended the Russo-Japanese War and earned Japan recognition as a major world power.
Treaty of Portsmouth
Put these in order- (Shogun, peasants, artisans, Ainu, merchants, eda, daimyo, emperor, samurai)
Emperor, shogun, amurai, daimyo, peasants, artisans, merchants, eda, ainu.
This city became the administrative center and de facto capital of Japan under Tokugawa Ieyasu.
Edo (now Tokyo)
This Chinese policy restricted foreign trade to designated ports and influenced Japan's foreign trade policies during the 18th century.
What is the Canton System?
One of the key reforms of the Meiji Restoration was the creation of a modern, conscript-based army, modeled after the military systems of this European country.
What is Prussia (or Germany)
Pearl Harbor was attacked by Japan on this date, leading to the United States' entry into World War II.
What is December 7, 1941?
who was Antoku
youngest emperor of Japan, became emperor of Japan at the age of two.
This class, despite being low in social status, gained economic power through commerce in the Edo period.
merchants
This 18th-century shogun implemented land reforms to stabilize the economy and improve tax collection.
Who is Tokugawa Yoshimune?
These two domains were among the leaders in the movement aimed at restoring imperial rule and modernizing Japan.
Satsuma and Choshu
name 4 reasons why you think the atomic bombs were justified or not.
Ng??