Japan Lesson 2

Because Japan is an Island nation made up of mostly of ___________ there is only a small amount of land that can be farmed.

• Islands

• volcanoes

• mountains

• water

What did Prince Shotoku create to give Japan a strong, well-organized government?

• origami

• shinto

• samurai

• constitution

During the A.D. 500s, which clan became strong enough to rule most of Japan?

• yamaha

• nissan

• Yamato

• nintendo

The early Japanese believed that humans, animals, plants, rocks, and rivers all have their own?

• Spirits

• souls

• children

• passwords

Japanese belief in animism developed into a religion called ____.

• Buddhism

• Catholicism

• Confucianism

• Shinto

Japan is an _ , or a chain of islands, that runs north to south in the Pacific Ocean.

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• islands

• archipelago

• Valley

• sea

This term means Way of the spirits

• Honshu

• Shinto

• Pinto

• Nara