Japan 2
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- What year did the Mongols first attack the Japanese?
- 1274
- What year did the Mongols get defeated by the Kamakura shogunate?
- 1281
- How was Japan formed (myth)?
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heaven and earth seperated and gods came to life
seventh generation- two gods:
izanagi
izanami - what culture first appeared in Japan and when?
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Jomon culture (from Korea)
about 8,000 BCE - Izanagi
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-created a drifting land
-thrusted a jeweled spear into the ocean and when he withdrew it, the drops fell from its point, forming the islands of Japan - The major islands together/geography
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-146,000 miles... about the size of montana
-curves 1,200 miles
-very isolated... seas act as barriers - Early people of Japan- what were they?
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hunters and gatherers - 10,000 years ago
- The Ainu
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early people of japan
live on Hokkaido
may be descendants - where did the immigrants push the early people of Japan?
- north abou 200-100 BCE
- What did the Yayoi do?
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-introduced the cultivation of rice in water... became most important crop
-used metal tools to irrigate and level land... this changed the Japanese from hunter-gatherers to farmers - between 200-300 AD
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"Tomb culture" replaced Yayoi
- 200 BCE
- Jomon replaced by the Yayoi...settled in fertile plain- Yamoto on the largest island, Honshu
- Tomb Culture
- left huge graves with bronze mirrors, crowns, clay figures of armor-clad warriors and horses
- Highest ranking Kami
- Sun Goddess came to be identified as Japan's emperor
- Shinto
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-revolved around nature
-natural world is filled with divine spirits, KAMI -
A court of refinement-
where was it? - the new capital of Kyoto, then known as Heian.