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What is the main island in the center?

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Honshu

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What is the main island in the north?

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Hokkaido

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What are the two smaller main islands that are in the southwest?

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Kyushu and Shikoku

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What is the climate in Japan?

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Temperate

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Where does the Japanese people tend to live?

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Along the east cost especially in Osaka and Kyoto.

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How many times are farmers able to harvest rice anually?

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Twice

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How many percent of the total land area suitable for cultivation?

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20%

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True or False.

Japan is not prone to earthquakes.

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False

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True or False.

Volcanic soils are extremely fertile.

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True

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When was the famous earthquake that destroyed almost the entire city of Tokyo?

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1923

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What is the eighth-century chronicle that is known as Records of Ancient Matters?

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Kojiki

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Who are the two ancestors of Japan that started everything?

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Izanagi and Izanami

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Who’s descendant later descended to earth and became the founder of the Japanese nation and also known as the sun goddess?

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Amaterasu

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Who are the first Japanese people?

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Jomon

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It is the mixture between the Jomon people and the new arrivals.

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Yayoi

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They are those who are driven out and the previous inhabitants of the area.

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Ainu

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Who is the Japanese legend that is the divine warior?

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Jimmu

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It is also known as clan.

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Uji

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Who is the person who provided protection to the local population in return for a proportion of the annual harvest in each uji?

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Hereditary Cheftain

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Who is the leading aristocrat ino ne of the dominant clan in the Yamato region?

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Shotoku Taishi

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What kind of government did Shotoku Taishi create?

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Centralized Government

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What is the so-called taika reforms?

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Great change

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What council was established after Taishi’s death that has over a cabinet of eight ministries?

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Grand Council of State

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What became popular among aristocrats, who endowed wealthy monasteries that became active in Japanese politics?

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Buddhism

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After Taishi’s death, which clan continued the centralized government?

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Fujiwara Clan

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It is the tax-exempt farmland.

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Shoen

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What period did Shotoku “lead”?

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Heian Period

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What period did Fujiwara “lead”?

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Nara Period

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What do you call the general in the tent-government?

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Shogun

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Who is the first shogun?

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Minamoto Yoritomo

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What do you call the tent-government and centralized government?

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Bakufu

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Who is the emperor of the Mongols that demanded tribute from Japan?

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Khubilai Khan

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What do you call the divine wind that saved the japanese people from the Mongols?

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Kamikaze

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After the Kamakura shogunate was overthrown, what family supplied the next shogun and attempted to continue the shogunate system but failed?

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Ashikaga Family

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What do you call the noble families who control vast landed estates that owed no taxes to the government or to the court in Kyoto and relies increasingly on the samurai for protection?

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Daimyo

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It is the civil conflict that lead to the virtual destruction of the capital Kyoto and the disintegration of the shogunate system.

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Onin War

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What year/s did the civil conflict or Onin War occur?

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1467-1477

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Who were the people who ceased total authority/control and are independent lords?

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Powerful aristocrats in rural areas

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It is a social system that existed in Europe during the Middle Ages in which people worked and fought for nobles who gave them protection and the use of land in return.

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Feudal System

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Who among the common people are responsible for collecting taxes and has tax-exempt?

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Local Offical

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Who among the common people has limited freedom and had to pay taxes?

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Peasants

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Who are those peasants unable to pay taxes therefore they became landless and later on become slaves?

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Genin

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They are the lowest class and was compared to the untouchables of Indus.

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Eta

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What you call the wooven mat that common people use?

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Tatami

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Who are the people who believe in magic to cure the sick and the like?

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Shaman

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In the 3rd century, men are allowed to have more than 1 wife. What do tou call this?

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Polygyny

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In this century men and women became not equal.

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8th century

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True or False.

Men and women are still not equal afterlife.

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True

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True or False.

All buddhists believes that men and women are not equal.

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False

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True or False.

Aristocratic women are active and prominent at court

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True

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What title did the Yamato ruler use?

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Son of Heaven

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It is a new class of military retainers.

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Samurai

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It is a strict warior code.

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Bushido

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What is Bushido reffered to as?

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Way of the warrior

54
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They destroyed the Song dynasty in China.

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Mongols

55
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She was renowned for her literary talents.

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Lady Murasaki

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They are the nature spirits.

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Kami

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It is the religion in Japan that means the way of the gods.

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Shinto

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This is the place where the national shrine was established.

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Ise

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What are the two sectsof Buddhism?

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Pure Land and Zen

60
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Another name for Pure Land sect.

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Jodo

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It taught that devotion alone could lead to enlightenment.

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Pure Land or Jodo

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It is the sect that is common among the aristocrats.

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Zen

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It is the seated zen.

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Zazen

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It is the common sect among the common people.

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Pure Land or Jodo

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It is another term for enlightenment.

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Satori

66
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It is the famous Japanese poetry.

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Haiku

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What are the three parts of haiku?

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Sogi, Shohaku, Socho

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It is the famous classical Japanese drama.

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Noh play or No play

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It literally means pot scenery.

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Bonsai

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It is the traditional form of suicide done by the samurai.

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Seppuku or Hara-kiri

71
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The burial mound

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Kofun

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