7th Grade History - Manzanita Elementary School



7th Grade History

Chapter 12 Q and A

12-1

1. What is an archipelago?

2. What is the climate of Kyushu?

3. Where did Japan’s first settlers come from?

4. Why are early Japanese histories written in Chinese?

5. Japan’s writing was originally borrowed from whom?

12-2

1. How did clan leaders keep Japan divided?

2. Who was Prince Shotoku?

3. How did Shotoku come to rule Japan?

4. How did Japan’s first constitution help to unify the country?

5. How did Prince Shotoku affect Japanese society?

12-3

1. What did warfare in Japan cause a decline in?

2. Why did Taira and Minamoto clans raise their own private armies after the Fujiwara

began to run the country?

3. List and describe the classes in Japan’s feudal society.

4. Who was Yaritomo?

5. In feudal Japan, what allowed the military to dominate society?

12-4

1. Describe the castles in Japan. (p. 334-335)

2. What does bushido mean?

3. What is an armada?

4. What happened in the first Mongol invasion?

5. What happened in the second Mongol invasion?

6. How has the warrior code carried into today?

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