Early Japan

Because of its ____, only a small amount of Japan can be farmed.

• poor soil

• lack of irrigation

• mountains

• rivers

The early Japanese built villages ____.

• along the coast and fished for food

• in the valleys and became shepherds

• near rivers and traded for food

• in the mountains and hunted for food

The Yayoi brought farming to Japan.

• True

• False

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

• Yamato

• Ninigi

• Silla

• Jimmu

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

• True

• False

Japanese belief in animism developed into a religion called ____.

• Shinto

• kami

• Buddhism

• Confucianism

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

• a constiution

• a Buddhist temple

• a dynasty

• art, philosophy, and medicine

During the Taika, or Great Change, Japan was ____.

• divided into provinces, or regional districts

• conquered by the Chinese

• used as a model for the Chinese government

• united with the Korean Peninsula

What was one difference between the early Japanese and early Chinese governments?

• The Japanese allowed women as government officials

• The Chinese used exams to choose their government officials, the Japanese did not

• The Japanese paid their government officials very well, the Chinese did not

• The Chinese always allowed foreigners to be government officials, the Japanese did not.

Japan is _______________

• an archipelago

• a peninsula

• an isthmus

• a strait