Japan Flashcards
(156 cards)
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What type of food is a key part of japan diet?
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Seafood
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What percent of the land in japan is flat?
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20%
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What did the separation of japan from asia allow the japaneese to do?
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Develop their own culture(religion, social structure, etc.)
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How many miles away from japan is korea?
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100 miles away
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How many miles away from japan is china?
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400 miles away
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Extended families
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Clans
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The traditional religion of japan
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Shinto
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Did the Ainu win or loose most of their fights for land?
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Loose
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At the head of each clan was a _______.
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Chief
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What did the japanese believe their clan chief decended from?
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Nature spirits called kami(kah-mee)
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Kami is goddess of the ______.
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Sun
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A person who rules a country for someone who is unable to rule alone
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Regent
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When did prince shotoku serve?
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From 593 to 621
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An extended family
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Clan
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The traditional religion of japan
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Shinto
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Japanese regent. He was one of japans greatest leaders. He was influential in bringing buddhism and chinese ideas to japan
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Prince shotoku
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A person who rules a country for someone who is unable to rule alone
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Regent
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A group of nobles who live near and serve or advise a ruler
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Court
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Japanese noble and writer. She wrote The Tale of Genji, the worlds 1st known novel
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Lady Murasaki Shikibu
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A form of buddhism that emphasizes meditation
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Zen
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Large landowners of feudal japan
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Daimyo
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A trained proffesional warrior in feudal japan
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Samurai
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A person who appears to rule even though real power rests with someone else
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Figurehead
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A general who ruled japan in the emperors name
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Shogun
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The code of honor folowed by the samurai in japan
Budhido
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Ideas that people hold dear
Values
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A group of nobles who surround a ruler
Court
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The way something is set up
Structure
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The nobles of heian placed great emphasis on art and learning, just like the people of which ancient greek city-state that you learned about in 6th grade?
Athens
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The main functions of samurai in japanese society was to...
?
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The code of honorable behavior for medival knights
Chivalry
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A type of japanese poem with three lines and 17 syllables that describes nature scenes
Haiku
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What are the islands of japan really?
Tops of undersea moutains and volcanoes (sticking up out of the ocean)
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Flat areas
Coastal plains
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The nearness of the ______ shaped the lives of japanese people
Sea or Ocean
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What did the japanese people turn to for food?
the Sea or Ocean
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_______ has been a key part of japanese diet for thousands of years
Seafood
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The japanese were _______ from the other people of asia
Iscolated or Separated
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What allowed the japanese to develop their own culture?
Separation
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________ and _________ played a major role in shaping japanese society, but not at first
Korea and China
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From where do some people believe the Ainu came from?(present day)
Siberia
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The Ainu began to fight with other people for ____.
Land
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Did the Ainu win or lose most of their fights?
Lose
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Eventually, the Ainu were driven onto a single island, __________.
Hokkaido
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The people who lived south of the Ainu eventually became the ____________.
Japanese
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The japanese villages were rule by what?
Powerful clans
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At the head of each clan was a ______.
Chief
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Each chief had __________ power and ___________ duties.
Political
| Religious
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Nature spirits
Kami
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According to ________, the traditional religion of japan, everything in nature had ______.
Shinto
| Kami
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The japanese made ______, places where people worship a saint or god, for the _____.
Shrines
| Kami
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The _________ of japan were not all equal.
Clans
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The _____ lived in the weatern part of the island, honshu
Yamato
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The yamato believed they descended from the most powerful _____, godess of the ____.
Kami
| Sun
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By the _______s the yamato rulers had extended their control over much of honshu.
500
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By the mid-______s some japanese leaders thought that japan could learn from other cultures
500
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To learn about their culture, the japanese invited the _______ and the ______ to move to japan.
Korean and Chinese
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What was one of the 1st things the japanese learned from china and korea?
Language
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Since japan didnt have their own written language, many japanese learned to write in _________.
Chinese
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Prince skhotoku served from ____ to ____.
593
| 621
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What did prince shotoku admire?
Chinese culture
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Scholars taught the japanese about ____________.
Confucianism
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As taught in confucianism: _________ should rule their families
Fathers
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Shotoku wanted to change japans government to be more like ______.
China's
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Many clan leaders opposed shotokus ________ plans, resulting in japans emperors gaining ______ power.
Government
| Little
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Who wrote the pillow book?
Sei Shonagon
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The nobles who followed japans emperor to heian wanted to win his ______ by living ______ to him.
Favor
| Close
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What did japans nobles call themselves?
Dwellers among the clouds
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The nobles of the court loved _____ and ______.
Beauty
| Elegance
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Golden age dates?
794 - 1185
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What did the nobles love of beauty begin with?
Their own appearance
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Describe some of the nobles clothing/accesories.
Silk robes
| Gold jewelry
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Nobles loved __________ outfits.
Elaborate
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How many layers did some womens gowns have?
12 layers
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Nobles also carried decorative ____.
Fans
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Why did nobles carry fans?
To complete their outfits
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Fans were decirates with.....
Painted flowers, painted trees, paonted birds, flowers and long silk chords
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The japanese believed their clans were descended from nature spirits called _______.
Kami
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Japanese writting is based on the ________ writting system.
Chinese
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One early culture that developed in japan was that of the ______.
Ainu
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The ________ clan believed that they were descended from the goddess of the sun. By the 500s they controlled much on honshu.
Yamato
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For many years, ______ was the official language of japans government.
Chinese
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__________________ admired chinese culture and sent scholars to learn all they could about chinese society.
Prince shotoku
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Japans location near the _______ shaped the diet of japans people.
Ocean
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Korean visitors intriduced the religion of ____________ to japan.
Buddhism
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Who was writting popular among? (Men or women)
Women
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Men wrote in the _________ language while women wrote in the _______ language.
Chinese
| Japanese
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Many of the greatest works of early japanese literature were written by ___________.
Women
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Around what year did lady murasaki shikibu write the tale of genji?
Around 1000
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People had ______ parties.
Poem
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Name the 3 most popular forms of visual arts in japan.
Painting, calligraphy, architecture
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Many artists painted on _________ and ________ rather than on _____.
Furniture
Doors
Paper
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The japanese greatly admired _________ architecture.
| They modeled Heian after the chinese capital, _______.
Chinese
| Chang'an
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Every kind of writting except for poetry
Prose
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Tokyo used to be called.....
Edo
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Accociated with royalty
Imperial
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Japans golden age is similar to the __________.
Pax romana
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A poem with this pattern: 5, 7, 5, 7, 7
Tanka
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A woven roof made of some sort of plant
Thatched
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All actors in japan were _____
Men
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If a male actor could play a woman, he was considered.......
A good actor
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_____ drama plays were only showed to nobles
Noh
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____________ buddhists chanted buddahs name to clear their _____.
Pure land buddhists
| Mind
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Medival times:
500 - 1500
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A spiritual buddha who lived many eons ago
Amida
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Taught that the only truth to be found was in the lotus sutra
Nichren
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Describe the advantages of samurai armor
- flexible
| - easier to fight with than medival armor
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Describe the disadvantages/advantages of medival armor.
- heavy (disadvantage)
- metal (half advantage)
- not flexible (disadvantage)
- hard to fight with (disadvantage)
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Japanese atchitectes used _______ and ________ to make the buildings more beautiful.
Gardens
| Ponds
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When was noh drama created?
1300s
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What did noh drama combine?
Music, speaking, dancing
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Samirai fought with _______ and ________.
Swords
| Bows
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The word samurai comes from the japanese word for "__________"
To survive
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Two unhappy clans began to fight for almost 30 years because they wanted a change of leadership. The __________ clan won.
Minamito
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Anyone who disrespected a samurai could be _______.
Killed
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_________ placed restrictions on samurai.
Tradition
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Bushido means......
The way of the warrior
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Why did women learn to fight?
To protect their homes from robbers
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Each samurai had to obey his masters orders without __________.
Hesitation
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________ was the most important thing in a samurais life
Honor
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The shoguns kept order in japan for about __________.
A century
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What was one of the greatest challenges to the shoguns?
The mongols invasion
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Chinas emperor?
Kubia khan
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Chinas emperor sent an army to conquer the japan islamds in ______
1274
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After being defeated, because of their ships sinking, the _______ invaded again in ________
Mongols
| 1281
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Both times the mongols invaded, they were defeated because.....
Their ships sank (because of a storm)
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The storm that sunk the mongols ships
Kamikaze
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Kamikze means......
Devine winds
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After the mongol invasions, the _______ and the _______began to fight against the ________.
Emperor
Daimyo
Shogun
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The shoguns lost their authoritu in the ________
1400s
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Gave his soldiers guns (first guns used in japan). Wanted to unify japan.
Oda Nobunaga
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By 1600 __________________, a person fighting to unify japan, had conquered his enemies
Tokugawa Ieyasu
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_______________ ruled all of japan from ____, which is now tokyo
Tokugawa
| Edo
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In the 1630s, the _______ closed japan off from the rest of the world
Shogun
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How many main islands are there in japan?
4
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How many total islands are there in japan?
6,825
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Tallest mountain in jaoan?
Mt fuji
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Around
Circa
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An opinion statement that suggests that everyone feels the same way
Sterotype
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An opinion statement that allows a person to only see one side
Bias
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A waterway that separates landmasses
Straight
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Most famous straight?
The bering straight
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The straight that separates africa and europe
Straight of gubrattor
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The way that people organize themselves
Social structure
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Biggest Japan island?
Honshu
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During world war 2, America dropped a nuclear bomb on __________ and ___________ (two cities in Japan)
Nagasaki
| Hiroshima
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Tokyo and northern CA are both on the _____th northern line
40
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The early Japanese ___________ scientifically advanced. (Answer were or were not)
Were not
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Why is bronze a symbol of power?
It was hard to get and hard to melt
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Why was iron a symbol of power?
It it tough and strong
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Stone tools came ________ iron and bronze tools. (Answer before or after)
Before
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Remember:
Ainu
Joman
Yayoi
Tum culture
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The code of honorable behavior for a European knight was known as _________
Chivalry
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A young person in medieval Europe who trained to become a knight was a _________
Squire
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During the Middle Ages period Europeans believed in the _________ religion and most Japanese believed in _______ or ________
Christian
Buddhism
Shinto
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The medieval system of government in both Europe and Japan based on land ownership is know today as _________.
Feudalism
