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| Who were the divine beings and what did they do |
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| The male Izanagi and the female Izanami stood on the bridge of heaven and churned the ocean with a spear to make a small island of curdled salt. (Japan) |
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| Who was Izanagi and Izanami's daughter and what happend to her |
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| According to legend, Izanagi, had a daughter named Amaterasu, the sun goddess. Amaterasu went into a cave, closed the entrance with a boulder, and refused to come out. The world was plunged into darkness. The other gods eventually tricked her into coming out, which brought back light and hope to the Japanese people. |
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| What do they call their country and what does their flag look like and symbolize |
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The land of the rising sun. It is a symbol of the sun and symbolizes unity with the circle
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| How were the emperors treated and what is said about them |
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| Treated very well because they were godlike in the eyes of the Japanese. They were thought to be descendants of the sun goddess. |
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| Why did they make Japan look bigger than it actually looks? How is the population in relation to Alberta and what about the space |
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They didn't know how big they were in compared to the rest of the world. The population in Alberta is much smaller than the population in Japan but Japan is a much smaller place. It would be very crowded.
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| Why was most of the population along the coast? |
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| The rest of Japan was mountains so they had to live on the coast |
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| What were the places and seas like around Japan? |
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| In between China and Japan is very rough waters and on the other sides, there was a lot of inlets to put lots of places like places and settlements. Most of the places are on the west side. |
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| What did the Japanese adopt from the Chinese |
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| Their religion and their language/symbols |
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| Why were the cherry blossoms so important and what did they symbolize |
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| They were a big part of their culture as was all nature and symbolized new beginnings, beauty, and the shortness of beauty and life. |
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| WHat was extremely important to the Japanese |
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| Who were the Ainu and what were the connections to the people in Canda |
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| Indigenous tribe of Japan. Indigenous people in both places were both forced to assimilate. Japan with the Ainu and Canda with Jacques Cartier and the first nations. |
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| What was the Shinto culture and the main focus |
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| The sacred spirits that took form in objects in nature called kami. They loved nature. |
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| Why were there so many natural disasters in Japan? |
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| It is along the edge of a tectonic plates which makes it susceptible to typhoons earthquakes tsunamis volcanos, and monsoons |
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| What has all the natural disasters made the Japanese people? |
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| What was the legend about the giant catfish? |
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| There is a giant catfish living in Earth's mud that thrashes and causes earthquakes. It was so unpredictable so Kashima a god went to get it. It continued to thrash and cause many major earthquakes |
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| Why were the thriving when they had such a small area to farm |
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| The land was very fertile (ARABLE) |
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| What are the things they do to provide for themselves |
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They survived by farming and fishing
They used wood from forests as fuel and building.
Silkworms and cotton for clothing |
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| What was their main food sources |
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| Why were monsoons so important |
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| They were very wet winds and they need lots of water for them to grow |
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| What does a rice field look like |
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| a bunch of tiers on a mountain with strips of almost ponds that the rice grew in |
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| WHat was wealth dependant on |
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| How much rice you had and how much you were able to produce |
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| WHy did they have the sumo wrestlers carry the bales of rice ton the ships |
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| They wanted to look as if they were powerful |
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| What helped them stay a homogenous society and how |
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| The sea helped them travel to different places in Japan and communicate and stay close with the different areas. |
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| What happened with the assimilation of the Ainu? |
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| Japan began to take over Ainu land. Ainu fought back but were defeated. It officially became part of Japan. The Japanese assimilated the Ainu. They could not speak their language practice their customs and could only live in certain areas. They were given farming land even though they were hunters and fishers. |
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| Japanese word for god or spirit part of the Shinto culture |
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| A large storm sent by the gods to defend the land |
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| Spaced out, not near anything else |
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| A ceremonial event to honor something |
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| Indigenous people in Japan |
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| Ainu gods that relate to nature. |
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| Festivals held to please and celebrate the kami |
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| Large storms with big waves that cause great damage |
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| To adapt and be resilient |
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| A piece of fertile land that can be farmed |
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| A huge wind that brings rain |
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| The japanese word for cooked rice or a meal |
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| To make something similar |
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