1 prehistoric

rope-pattern pottery

settled communities arise

2 types of pots: basic useful ones and humanoid ones

Prehistoric 2

new tech: bronze casting, glass, weaving, woodwork, rice

racially different from Jomon

earliest written record of people in Japan (from China)

Chinese call them dwarfs and they adopt name for a bit

settlements w/ walls: heirarchy emerges

tomb period

prehistoric 3

tomb type: massive burial mounds

protective goods inside

Haniwa inside (clay figurines)

Early Historical 1

Soga-powerful clan owns gov

become Japans first embassadors of Buddhism

Japanese style and culture begins to form

Early Historical Period 2

After Asuka

capital moved

Japan becomes a place, no longer just "over there"