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16 Cards in this Set
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What year did the Mongols first attack the Japanese?
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1274
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What year did the Mongols get defeated by the Kamakura shogunate?
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1281
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How was Japan formed (myth)?
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heaven and earth seperated and gods came to life
seventh generation- two gods: izanagi izanami |
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what culture first appeared in Japan and when?
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Jomon culture (from Korea)
about 8,000 BCE |
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Izanagi
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-created a drifting land
-thrusted a jeweled spear into the ocean and when he withdrew it, the drops fell from its point, forming the islands of Japan |
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The major islands together/geography
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-146,000 miles... about the size of montana
-curves 1,200 miles -very isolated... seas act as barriers |
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Early people of Japan- what were they?
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hunters and gatherers - 10,000 years ago
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The Ainu
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early people of japan
live on Hokkaido may be descendants |
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where did the immigrants push the early people of Japan?
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north abou 200-100 BCE
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What did the Yayoi do?
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-introduced the cultivation of rice in water... became most important crop
-used metal tools to irrigate and level land... this changed the Japanese from hunter-gatherers to farmers |
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between 200-300 AD
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"Tomb culture" replaced Yayoi
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200 BCE
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Jomon replaced by the Yayoi...settled in fertile plain- Yamoto on the largest island, Honshu
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Tomb Culture
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left huge graves with bronze mirrors, crowns, clay figures of armor-clad warriors and horses
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Highest ranking Kami
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Sun Goddess came to be identified as Japan's emperor
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Shinto
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-revolved around nature
-natural world is filled with divine spirits, KAMI |
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A court of refinement-
where was it? |
the new capital of Kyoto, then known as Heian.
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