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| Nakatomi-no-Kamatari was the founder of which clan? |
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| The Fujiwara clan. He was later known as Fujiwara-no-Kamatari. |
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| Naka-no-Oye was the birth name of which emperor? |
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| Mushihito is the personal name of which emperor? |
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| Who was Nobunaga's successor? |
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| What event cleared the path for the the Tokugawa shogunate coming to power? |
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| The battle of Sekigahara in 1600. |
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| Who was the first Tokugawa shogun? |
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| Who was Japan's first traditional emperor, considered the first human ruler of Japan? |
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| Emperor Kammu moved the capital from _____ to _____ . Why? |
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| From Nara to Kyoto, to get away from the Buddhist priesthood in Nara. |
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| Which emperor really brought Buddhism to the masses? |
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| Emperor Shomu (r. 724-748) founded a provincial temple system called Kokubun-ji and brought religious Buddhist practice into government. |
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| Prince Shotoku is the father of _____ in Japan. |
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| Taika reforms, date? Who started them? What did they do? |
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| 645 C.E., started by Emperor Tenchi and Fujiwara. Transformed political model of Japan into an imperial system modeled on China's. |
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| Which clan began to build so much power in the Kofun period that it became something of a state? |
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| The Yamato Clan became the Yamato state during the Kofun period. |
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| What were the three periods of Japanese pre-history, in order? |
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Jomon (10,000 - 250 B.C.E.)
Yayoi (250 B.C.E. - 300 C.E.)
Kofun (300-442 C.E.) |
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