14-1 Geography and Early Cultures Pages 384-389

8.1 – Geography and Early Japan- Pages 166-169

The Big Idea: Japan’s early societies were both isolated from and influenced by China and Korea.

Main Idea 1: Geography shaped life in Japan. • Japan is a large group of ______located off the Asian ______. • The ______of Japan are really the tops of ______. • The ______were difficult to live on, so most people lived on flat coastal plains near the ______.

The sea influenced Japan by: Providing food • ______was the main diet of the Japanese • Shark • Seaweed • ______

Separating it from other countries • Due to it’s island location, Japan remained ______until its rulers decided to ______other countries.

Providing easy access to other countries • ______and ______were only a short distance by ______from Japan.

Main Idea 2: Early Japanese society was organized in clans which came to be ruled by emperors.

• Japan was home to______cultures before it was influenced by ______and ______. • The ______were an early people who spoke a unique ______, were believed to come from ______, and eventually disappeared.

The Early Japanese

• The early Japanese were organized into extended ______, or ______, that lived in small farming villages. • The head of the ______, or chief, had religious and political ______over the people of the villages. • Chiefs were believed to have gained their ______through ______, which were ______spirits. Shinto • Rituals to honor the ______became the central part of ______, a traditional Japanese religion. • ______believes that everything in nature has kami. • They built ______to the kami and asked the ______to bless them.

The First Emperors • Some clans became more ______than others and built up ______. • The ______clan claimed to have a glorious family history. ______first ruled their clans. They extended their control over much of Honshu and eventually began to call themselves the first ______of Japan.

Main Idea 3: Japan learned about language, society, and government from China and Korea.

• The rulers of Japan sent representatives to______and Korea to gather information about their ______and invited people from Korea and China to come to Japan. - Learned to write ______- Learned about the ______, Confucianism, which outlined how ______should behave - Learn about new ______, especially Buddhism

Prince Shotoku • Served as ______for his aunt, the empress • Admired ______culture and helped bring it to Japan • Influenced the spread of ______by writing commentaries and building a beautiful ______