Ancient Japan Vocabulary

What is an Archipelago? 

• A chain of bones
• A chain
• A chain of islands 
• 2 Chains

What is a Samurai?

• A member of a powerful military caste in feudal Japan. They lived under a strict code of loyalty
• A ninja
• A sandwich 
• any of a number of standing poses in yoga in which the legs are held apart and the arms are stretched outwards.

The Japanese art of folding paper into decorative shapes and figures.

• Paper Airplane
• Fortune Tellers
• Origami
• Tofu

The dominant social system in medieval Europe.

• Democracy
• FuedalishamSham
• Fuedalism
• Rice

What is the traditional native religion of Japan?

• Islam
• Confucian
• Christianity
• Shinto

In Shinto, what do you call the gods or spirits that exist in both living and non-living things

• Nara
• Kami
• Bushido
• Spirits

Early Japanese beliefs developed into the religion of Shinto which means

• the way of the spirits
• the right way 
• the only way 
• the honorable way

Most Japanese people believed that Buddhism

• helped them in daily life
• was the one true religion
• should not be tolerated in Japan
• prepared them for the afterlife

In the years from 1000 to 1200, what political system developed in Japan?

• Nation-states
• Feudalism
• Deomcracy
• Zen

Who is being described?

• the Daimyo
• the Samurai
• the Emperor
• the Shogun