Name Date CHAPTER GEOGRAPHY APPLICATION: MOVEMENT The Ainu People Directions: Read the paragraphs below and study the map carefully. Then answer 12 the questions that follow. Section 1 efore settlers from mainland Asia began migrating to They suppressed Ainu religion and language and forced the BJapan, a people known as the Ainu had already existed children of the Ainu to attend Japanese schools. in Japan. This situation is similar to that of North America, Furthermore, like Native Americans, today’s Ainu suffer where an original people, the Native Americans, already from a high rate of alcoholism. lived when European settlers arrived. Today’s Japanese call In the process of assimilation, the Ainu have also lost the Ainu the “Hairy People” because they had long wavy many of their unique physical characteristics, including their hair, thick beards, and hair covering their bodies. European-like faces. One anthropologist who examined The people migrating from mainland Asia formed clans, 19th-century photographs blending and assimilating into a fairly homogeneous popula- of Ainu described them as resembling “fierce, black-beard- tion by about first century A.D. Around 400 years later, the ed Norwegians.” Yamato clan established itself as the chief clan. In the forma- tion of a new Japanese culture, the clans forced the Ainu fur- ther north on Honshu and to Hokkaido, remote areas of Japan. As time progressed and the population of Japan increased, the new Japanese discriminated against the Ainu, preventing them from practicing their rituals and traditions. The Movement of the Ainu People MMANCHURIAANCHURIA HHokkokkaaidoido CCHINAHINA Sea of . J apan d e v (East Sea) r e s e r s t h g i r KKOREAOREA l l A . HHonshuonshu c n I l l e KKAYAAYA t t HHeianeian i L l NNaniwaaniwa a PACIFIC g HHakataakata SShikokhikoku u o OCEAN D c KKyuyusshuhu M Early migrations © Yamato area Expansion to 0 500 Miles early 5th century Retreat of Ainu 0 1,000 Kilometers Empires in East Asia 1 2 Name Interpreting Text andVisuals Text Interpreting Unit 7. Whatmighthavebeensomeofther 6. ExplainhowthesituationofAinupeopleissimilartothatNativeAmericansinNorth 5. 4. HowmanymilesseparateHonshuandKoreaatitsclosestpoint?________________________ 3. Whatarethenamesoffourprimaryislandsthatconsistpresent-dayJapan? __________ corearea?2. Atitslongestpoint,howmanymilesistheYamato __________________________ 1. WhatbodyofwaterdidthepeopleAsianeedtocrossinordermigrateJapan? America.______________________________________________________________________ Japanese? ____________________________________________________________________ What isthegreatestnumberofmilesthatAinumighthavebeenforcedtomoveby ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________ 3, Chapter Name 12 easons thattheJapanesediscriminatedagainstAinu? The Ainu People continued © McDougal Littell Inc. All rights reserved..