Pre-Feudal Japan

This is the spread of cultural items such as ideas, styles, religions, technologies, and languages between individuals, whether within a single culture or from one culture to another.

• Demography

• Population Growth

• Cultural Diffusion

• Geology

the traditional religion of Japan based on the worship and respect for nature and ancestors

• Shinto

• meditation

• haiku

• novel

a person who rules in place of an absent or underage emperor

• Prince Shotoku

• regent

• Lady Murasaki Shikibu

• Buddha

a ruler who brought elements of Chinese culture to Japan

• Prince Shotoku

• regent

• Lady Murasaki Shikibu

• Buddha

When Korean workers settled in Japan, how did they change the lives of the Japanese?

• They set up a new government over the country.

• They worked as slaves for middle-class families.

• They brought knowledge and skills from the mainland.

• They became the customers who bought Japanese crafts

Before the time of Prince Shotoku, Japanese government (a)  

• ruled over Korea and China.
• depended on local leaders.
• had a bureaucracy of officials.
• filled jobs based on examinations

Prince Shotoku’s creating ranks for government officials was based on (a)  

• Shinto ideas.
• Muslim ideas
• Buddhist ideas
• Confucian ideas.

What happened to Japanese culture when Empress Suiko and Prince Shotoku came into power in 593?

• Japan was not influenced by other cultures.

• Other cultures emerged for the first time.

• Other cultures completely replaced Japans's.

• Cultural diffusion occurred at a faster rate.

In medieval times, ideas from other cultures traveled to Japan by way of the

• Korean Peninsula.

• Hidaka Mountains.

• Japanese Alps.

• Chugoku Range.

What does Buddhism's moral code focus on?

• expressed respect

• acting correctly

• using meditation

• all of the above