Ancient / Feudal Japan

Why have most Japanese people lived in the flat areas (coastal plains)?

• Why have most Japanese people lived in the flat areas (coastal plains)?

• It's difficult to live and farm on mountain slopes.

• They did not live in the flat areas.

The Japanese believed their clan chiefs were descended from nature spirits called

• Kami

• Diamyos

• Clans

Because the early Japanese didn't have a written language, in what language did they learn to write?

• English

• Chinese

• French

Who did the daimyo hire to protect him and their land?

• Emperors

• Lords

• Samurais

What was the correct order of the social structure of feudal Japanese society?

• Emperor, shogun, daimyo and smaurai, and peasants

• Peasants, shogun, emperor, and daimyo and samurai

• Workers, samurai, slaves, lords

What was the difference between the emperor and the shogun?

• They were equally as important and ruled together.

• The emperor was just a puppet-ruler, while the shogun was really in charge

• The shogun owned land while the emperor did not.

What was the most important thing in a samurai's life?

• Love

• Religion

• Honor

What challenges arose that brought this order of feudal Japanese society to an end?

• Earthquakes and volcanoes

• Foreign invasion and internal rebellion

• They faced no challenges

To prevent Japan from becoming too much like Europe and the shoguns from losing their power, what happened?

• People quit eating foods that were brought in from Europe.

• The shoguns quit going to Europe.

• The ruling shogun closed Japan off from the rest of the world.

What is the name for Japanese poetry with the 5-7-5 syllable pattern?

• Diamyo

• Haiku

• Noh