japan Flashcards
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what is Shintoism?
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The worship of ancestors and nature spirts called kami and both animate and imamate objects.
2
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What is kami?
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nature sprits
3
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who was prince Shotoku
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A Yamato prince who want to have a strong government so he made a constitution. What it stated was that emperor was the all powerful ruler.
4
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What is Confucianism?
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5
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What are shogun?
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The chief military commander in feudal Japan
6
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What are samurai?
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People the nobles gave land to fight for them
7
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Bushido
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The strict code the samurai would follow. It could also be call way of the warrior.
8
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Daimyo
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9
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Hein period
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10
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torii
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11
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animism
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Early Japanese people who believed that humans, animals, plants, rocks, and rivers all have their own spirts.
