About what percentage of Japan is located on flat land?
Are most of Japan’s major cities in the interior or on the coast? Why do you think this is so?
What has been a key part of the Japanese diet for thousands of years? Explain why?
Why did Japan develop a very different culture from those in other parts of Asia?
Explain how the Ainu were different from other people in Japan
Define clans.
Why were the clan chiefs held in such high respect?
Define Shinto.
What is Kami? Explain the role of Kami in Shintoism.
How did emperors take power in Japan?
Why did Japanese leaders send representatives to China and Korea in the mid-500s?
Where did the Japanese first gain influences of language from?
Explain the influence of the Chinese language on the Japanese language.
Explain why Prince Shotoku was important?
Define regent.
Explain how Confucianism outlines how families should behave.
How did Prince Shotoku work to change people’s minds about Buddhism?
What aspects of Chinese society did Shotoku bring to Japan?
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