Basics of Japan | Japanese Government | The Way of The Samurai | First Contact With The West | Japanese Social Hierarchy |
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Earthquakes, tsunamis, monsoons
Name 3 natural disasters that often affect Japan
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Edo
What was the capital city of Japan during the period of isolation?
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47
How many ronin were there in the famous story?
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1543
In what year did the Portuguese trading ship wreck off the coast of Japan?
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merchants
Which class did the shogunate hire as spies?
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Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu, Shikoku
Name 2 of the Japanese islands
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The daimyo
Who controlled local or regional affairs?
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His long sword
What was the samurai's katana?
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"Southern barbarians"
What did the Japanese call the Portuguese sailors?
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property
Women did not have legal existence in the Edo period; they could not own __________________
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Ainu
Japan's indigenous peoples
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Tokugawa Ieyasu
What was the name of the man who became shogun and unified Japan? (2 words)
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Social controls
The samurai were responsible for ensuring the lower classes followed _______________ ________________, which are rules and customs that regulate people's behaviour
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200
In 50 years, the missionaries built how many churches in Japan?
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death
Outcasts often worked jobs that were in some way associated with ________________
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kamikaze
In 1274 and 1281, Mongols attempted to attack Japan, but their fleet was destroyed in a storm the Japanese called _____________________
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Bafuku
The centralized government that was headed by the shogun
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Faithfulness and devotion to parents
In Edo Japan, samurai schools taught children filial piety. What does this mean?
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They feared the people of Japan would be loyal to the Christian God instead of the daimyo, shogun, and emperor
Why was the idea of one god so threatening to the shogunate?
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Surveying land, collecting taxes, keeping order
In peacetime, what were the duties of the samurai? (Name at least 2)
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matsuri
Japan, festivals called ____________________ are held every year to please and celebrate the kami
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Bakuhan
The _____________________ system of two levels of government was established during the Edo period.
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The groups of five families lower classes would be organized into by the samurai.
What were the goningumi?
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Franciscan priests
Which Catholic religious order was responsible for converting the peasants to Christianity?
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smoking tobacco and drinking rice wine
Peasants needed special permission to travel outside their district, and were also forbidden from enjoying 2 things: ____________________ ________________ and _________________________ _______________ _______________.
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