Lesson 23 Influence of other cultures on Japan

Warships and armies from Japan attacked Korea.

Practices and beliefs spread from Korea to Japan.

Written languages developed separately in Japan and Korea.

Korea and Japan grew different crops because of different climates.

He turned it into an agricultural society.

He divided power among the chiefs of clans.

He increased contact with neighboring cultures.

He introduced the craft of bronze and iron smithing.

They set up a new government over the country.

They advised the emperor on government policy.

They brought knowledge and skills from the mainland.

They became the customers who bought Japanese crafts.

ruled over Korea and China.

depended on local leaders.

had a bureaucracy of officials.

filled jobs based on examinations.

Shinto ideas.

Muslim ideas.

Buddhist ideas.

Confucian ideas.

merchants

clan leaders

peasants

military leaders

Nara lacked a wall for protection.

Nara lacked an imperial palace.

Nara lacked religious temples and monasteries.

Nara lacked an orderly street pattern.

a code of moral rules.

worship of foreign gods.

the cycle of pain and suffering.

respect for the beauty of nature.

by teaching the steps to a moral life

by emptying the mind of distracting thoughts

by providing a time to regret one's sins

by encouraging the study of books by enlightened teachers

life on Earth is the only life.

all people can reach nirvana.

all buddhas hold false beliefs.

only the material world is real.