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Separated or set apart from others, often implying a sense of being alone.
What is Isolated?
100
Military ruler of Japan.
Who was the Shogun?
100
A series of laws that restricted contract with foreigners and prohibited Japanese people from learning the country.
What were the Exclusion/Isolation Laws?
100
The period when Japan was ruled by Emperor Meiji , which was the start of the modernization and westernization of the country.
What was Meiji Japan?
100
The new ruling class of Meiji period Japan.
What was the Oligarchy?
200
For centuries, this was the Japanese money system. A person's worth and importance was defined by this.
What did rice represent in Japanese culture?
200
Emperor, Shogun, Daimyo, Samurai, Ronin, Peasants, Artisans, Merchants.
What was the order of the Japanese social structure from most power to least?
200
________ were Japanese traders in Japan. They were not allowed to talk to anyone and had to go to Edo once a year to pay respect to the Shogun.
Who were the Dutch Scholars?
200
Marked the end of the Edo Period
What was the treaty of Kanagawa?
200
To win respect and recognition from the west
Why did Japan improve and modernize their military?
300
This event ended WWII and made Japan change their ways as an imperial nation.
The dropping of the Atomic Bombs.
300
These people brought new religions and things to trade. The Japanese religion was very set in place. The emperor didn't like this because he was the highest of power because of Divine Status.
Who were the "Southern Barbarians"?
300
America was discovering the world, they now wanted to explore Japan, but Japan couldn't risk America coming to them.
What were some things driving expansionist threats from outside?
300
Established a U.S. Consulate in Japan
What was a term in the treaty of Kanagawa?
300
Used the motto ‘Western Science, Japanese Essence’
How did Japan attempt to bring back old values?
400
Japan’s isolation from other countries affected them and forced them to become a...
What was a homogeneous society?
400
The people had many rules and not many rights. The state had close to all of the power and made it so the individual gave them lots of respect.
What is a rigid society.
400
-There were little crimes with the rigid rules
-Arts and cultures were able to flourish
Which is ways that society ran before the Meiji restoration.
400
The Meiji wanted to be like the West by establishing a form of ___________ similar to that of the west.
What is government.
400
Some Japanese were open to adopting western culture, some were more traditional
How did Japanese react to rapid change and westernization?
500
To ___ means to borrow or take things from other cultures, to ___ means to eventually get used to or tweak the aspects of a new culture.
What did it mean to adopt and adapt?
500
Women-had to follow many rules and they didn't have many rights.
Artisans- got things from farmers and made things with what they were given.
Outsiders- they brought things that made Japanese people scared and worried.
Merchants- were the lowest class and they sold things that other people made.
What were the roles of the groups of people in Japans social structure?
500
What were two of Japan's exclusion/isolation laws?
500
Japan used inventions, such as steam engines and cotton gin, what is this examples of?
How did the Industrial Revolution impact Japan?
500
Through the years, as well as through evolution, Japan went from the smallest ____ , to the largest ____.
What was the Military evolution from 1870 - 1904?