Japan

1. Describe the geography of Japan.(p.375)

archipelago

2. What

was Japan’s

relationship with China before

the Heian Empire?(p.376)Kyoto

3. How was life in the Heian period different For Japanese nobility and common people?(p.376)

Emperor

Shogun

Daimyo

Samurai

Peasants

4. Explain how Feudalism developed in Japan during the 1000s.

(p. 377)

5. What were samurai? What was bushido and how did it guide the lives of

the samurai? (p.377)

6. Trace the development of the Kamakura shogunate from the growing number of samurai in the 11th. century (p.378)

shogun

7. What happened when the Mongols tried

to invade Japan? (p.378)

8. How did Europeans gain influence in

Japan in the 1500s? (p.378)

9. How did Tokugawa

Ieyasu organize Japan in

the 1600s? (p.378)

10.Describe life in Japan under the

Tokugawa Shogunate. (p.379)

11. What steps did Tokugawa

Ieyasu take to

make sure that Japan remained isolated

from westerners? (p.379)

Mongolia