Unit 10: Japan (Part 2): Short Answer Question Preview (ID: 59095)


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Where is Japan's located?
a) Japan is located 120 miles off the coast of Europe and is in the Pacific Ocean.
b) Japan is located 120 miles off the coast of Asia and is in the Pacific Ocean.
c) Japan is located 120 miles off the coast of Asia and is in the Atlantic Ocean.
d)

What are the advantages of Japan's location?
a) Japan was an ideal location for fishing and trading. Japan was less vulnerable to invasion because it is an island.
b) Japan was an ideal location for farming. Japan had a lot of neighbors to trade with.
c) Japan was an ideal location for battle. Japan could attack its neighbors from all directions on the island.
d)

What are the disadvantages of Japan's location?
a) Japan had a harder time attacking others and did less trading. There were storms and flooding and resources were limited.
b) Japan was constantly being attacked by others. It has a desert and is extremely hot and dry.
c) Japan was not a part of the Silk Road and therefore did not have access to many resources.
d)

Explain the goal of Prince Shotoku's constitution.
a) He wanted a king to rule Japan.
b) He wanted to establish the ruler of Japan as the true emperor.
c) He wanted to establish peace with Japan and its neighboring emperors.
d)

Identify and describe what Japan experienced from 795 to 1185 CE.
a) Japan experienced a famine (a shortage of food.)
b) Japan expanded on their technology and created guns and other weapons.
c) Japan experienced a Golden Age, when society was at its peak.
d)

What was the Gempei War?
a) It was a series of civil wars.
b) It was a fight between two countries, Japan and China.
c) It was a fight between the Taira and Minamoto clans over wealth, land and power.
d) It was where Japan won.

What does a samurai have to follow?
a) the rising of the sun
b) the Bushido Code
c) the 5 Steps to Freedom
d) the Golden Rule

Japanese were followers of
a) Buddhism
b) Shinto
c) Christianity
d) Judaism

What is a figurehead?
a) something you put on your car and its head bobbles back and forth
b) a clan
c) someone who thinks they have power but does not
d) a famous person on a coin

What is a Golden Age?
a) a town covered in gold
b) a society at its peak
c) using all gold coins
d) where the rules don't apply to others

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