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What is the capital city of Japan?
Tokyo
The code of the samurai in Japan, which valued loyalty and honor.
Bushido
in the Middle Ages, a Japanese military leader.
Shogun
Who was the first emperor of Japan, traditionally believed to have ascended to the throne in 660 BC?
Emperor Jimmu
What is the tallest mountain in Japan?
Mount Fuji
What ocean is located to the east of Japan?
Pacfic Ocean
Sometimes, the shogun bows down to no one,That makes him the guy to know, elected by the _______ They own the farmland
Damiyo
Japanese samurai valued honor so much that if they angered themselves or their lords, they’d kill themselves by ______ to avoid disgrace.
Seppuku
What is the name of Japan's currency?
The japanese yen
What year did Japan host the Summer Olympics for the first time?
1964
Japan's geography can best be described as...
A group of many islands that are mountainous
in the Middle Ages, a member of the Japanese warrior class.
Samurai
A traditional religion of Japan that includes the worship of ancestors and nature.
Shinto
Mongol invasions of Japan were thwarted on more than one occasion by_________.
Powerful Winds
Which Japanese city was the first to be hit by an atomic bomb in World War II?
Hiroshima
Japan's geography can best be compared to ______.
Greece
Samurai warriors followed the_________, a strict code meaning "the way of the warrior," which valued loyalty and honor over life.
Bushido
Sometimes, the shogun bows down to no one,That makes him the guy to know, elected by the _______ They own the farmland
Damiyo
Marianne has been studying _______in the hopes of finding enlightenment through meditation.
Zen Buddhism
Who are Samurais?
Paid warriors who served their employers under a strict honor code.
Because of Japan's geography, Japan developed _______________________.
as isolated groups that were fairly independent of each other.
What is an accomplishment by Minamoto Yoritomo?
He united areas of land and created the first centralized government
The Japanese _________ religion worships “kami,” divine energies that may be the spirits of ancestors or elements of the natural world, such as animals, wind, or rain.
Shinto
During the Middle Ages, _________ flourished in Japan and Europe. This economic and political system benefitted landowning families, who let other people live and work on their land in exchange for a portion of their crops and military service.
Feudalism
What group developed as the biggest power players in Japan?
Wealth land-owning families