Geography
The Han River
Which river flows through Kouguryo, Paekche, and Silla?
In the 500s, the Japanese used Chinese characters that stood for entire words. In the 800s, the Japanese created their own system that had symbols represent sounds, much like our alphabet.
What was the Japanese writing system during the Shogun era.
Sports that involve combat and self-defense.
What is martial arts?
Multiple religions helped meet their daily needs.
Why did most Japanese practice more than one religion?
A series or chain of islands, like Japan.
What is an archipelago?
Most Japanese believed in Shinto and Buddhism. Shinto for their daily life and Buddhism for their spiritual beliefs.
What religions were practiced in Japan during the time of the shoguns?
The Japanese lived in large Chinese-family style homes.
What is one way the Chinese influenced Japan during the Nara period?
The religion of the early Koreans. The leaders of this religion asked favors of the spirits for the people and cured physical and mental illnesses.
How was shamanism important to the early Koreans?
The Hangyong Mountains
What geographical feature separates the Korean Peninsula and the mainland?
A warrior who served a Japanese lord, shogun, and lived under a strict code of conduct, Bushido.
Who is a samurai?
Shotoku worked to strengthen and better organize Japan’s government by creating a constitution and identifying specific duties for the people
How did Prince Shotoku reform Japan’s government?
The belief that all living and non-living things have a spirit, or kami.
What is animism?
Japan’s islands are actually the tops of mountains and therefore there is very little flat land for farming. The people settled on the flatland and fished for food.
How was Japan’s early society shaped by geography?
The samurai kept law and order in the countryside. They fought in the armies of the shoguns.
How did the samurai advisers serve the shoguns in Japan?
The Mongols invaded Korea which forced the family to leave.
Why did the Koryu king and his family have to flee the mainland of Korea and flee to an island around 1231 C.E.?
Religion affected every aspect of life which inspired them to write poetry and plays based on their spiritual life and that incorporated nature.
How were religion and the arts related to each other under the shoguns?
The Yellow Sea
What body of water lies to the west of the Korean Peninsula?
A military governor who ruled Japan.
Who is a shogun?
The system of service between a lord and the vassal who have pledged their loyalty to him.
What is a feudalism?
The early Japanese believes all living and nonliving things had a spirit. This eventually turned into Shintoism. People believed by taking part in Shinto rituals they could guarantee good things for Japan.
Why was nature important to the early Japanese?