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Flash cards created from ninth grade history notes on Japan.
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9th Grade
01/30/2011

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Term
What was Japan called and what did it mean?
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Nippon, the source of the sun
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What is the largest island where the capital is?
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Honshu
Term
Most northernly island
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Hokkaido
Term
Southern most island
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Kyushu
Term
Smallest island
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Shikoku
Term
Chain of islands that stretch from Kyushu to Taiwan, Okinawa is there.
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Riukyu
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Chain of islands from hokkaido, it is held by Russia
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The Kuril Islands
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Tallest mountian in Japan
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Mt. Fugi (Fugi Yama)
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Body of water between the main islands and Asia
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Sea of Japan
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Body of water between Shikoku and Honshu
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The Inland Sea
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Entrance to the Sea of Japan between Japan and Korea, sometimes called Korean Straigh
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Tsushima Straight
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Another entrance to the sea of japan between Hokkaido and Honshu
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Tsugara Straight
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Narrow channel near Shikoku and leads to Tsushima straight or Inland sea
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Bungo Suido
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Prehistoric people who were Nomads and crossed from the Mainland
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Ainu
Term
Modern Japanese lived in extended families called
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Clans
Term
There religion meaning "way of the gods" was what?
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Shinto
Term
Spirits that controlled the forces of nature were
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Kami
Term
Term where spirits inhabit everything
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Animistic
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Clan that established the first dynasty that still exists today
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Yamato Clan
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Sun Goddess that created Japan
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Amaterasu
Term
First emperor
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Jimmu Tenno
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Scholar that sent representatives to China to study, he became known as the "founder of Japanese Civilization"
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Sho To Ku
Term
Great change
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Taika
Term
Capital based on the Capital in the Tang Dynasty
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Nara
Term
Clan after Yamato that moved the capital
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The Fujiwara Clan
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Where the capital was moved to and what the period was called
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Heian, Heian Period
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First novel was what and who wrote it
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Tale of Genji, Lady Murasaki
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Clan after Fugiwara
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Minamaoto Clan
Term
Land owning feudal lords
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Daimyo
Term
Head of Minamoto Clan
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Yoritomo Minamoto
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Cheif General
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Shogun
Term
Government Official
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Bakufoo
Term
Where Yoritomo moved his capital and the period was called this
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kamakura, Kamakura period
Term
Head of society, religious duties with no power
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Emperor
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Disciplined warriors
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Samurai
Term
Samurai code of conduct, meaning way of the warrior"
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Bushido
Term
Ritual suicide to regain honor
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Seppuku
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Outcast samurai with no lord
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Ronin
Term
Shogunate after the Minamoto that defeated the Mongol invasion of Keyoshu
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Hojo Shogunate
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Name given to Typhoon meaning "Divine Wind"
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Kamikaze
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Shogunate after the Hojo, during the "age of the country at war"
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Ashikaga Shogunate
Term
Military leader that gave the peasants guns
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Oda Nobinaga
Term
Peasants general that murdered the general who killed Oda Nobinaga
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Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Term
THe only daimyo Toyotomi Hideyoshi did not kill
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Ieyasu Tokugawa
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The removal of weapons from the peasants
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"Sword Hunt"
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Country Toyotomi tries to conquer but fails
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Korea
Term
Shogunate that makes their office hereditary so its the last Shogunate
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Tokugawa Shogunate
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Where the capital was moved to during the Tokugawa Shogunate
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Edo (Tokyo)
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Who ended the Japanese ban on foreigners
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Comadore Mathew C. Perry
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Mathew C. Perry brought what into Japan?
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Black Ships
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