What do you call land surrounded on three sides by water?
What is Japan's tallest mountain?
Mt.Fuji
What does samurai mean?
Those who serve
Who was in charge of Japan?
The emperor
What was the first European country to trade with Japan?
Portugal
What is Korea covered in?
Mountains
What is a typhoon?
An ocean storm
What code do samurai follow?
Bushido
Who was the military leader of Japan?
Shogun
What did Japan get from Europeans?
Christianity and guns
What are the three kingdoms of Korea?
Baekje, Silla, Gogureyo
What is a tsunami?
A large wave
What kind of poems did samurai create?
Haiku
What class were most people in Japan?
Peasants
Who were the 3 unifiers?
Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Tokugawa Ieyasu
What did Korea bring to Japan?
Buddhism and Chinese writing
What are the islands of Japan?
Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku, Hokkaido
What is the samurai's preferred religion?
Zen Buddhism
What is one koku?
The amount of rice that would feed a family for a year
Christianity
What is something the Koreans invented?
Movable type, heated floors, ceramics
Why does Japan have so many volcanoes?
It is in the ring of fire
Who did the samurai serve?
Daimyo/Shogun
What does ukiyo-e mean?
Floating world pictures
How long was Japan closed to outsiders?
200 years