SS CH. 14 PEOPLE AND PLACES
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whitster2000 on April 2, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Japan | a chain of islands that stretches north to south in the northern pacific ocean |
| 4 main islands of japan | Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu |
| Jomon | Japan's earliest people who formed a culture and made clay pottery using knotted cords to make designs on the clay |
| Yayoi | after the jomon culture died in 300 B.C. a new culture started to form called the this |
| Jimmu | legend states that a Yamato leader named this took the title "emperor of heaven" |
| Shotoku | took charge of japan on behalf of his aunt in 600 A.D. who took china as an example of government, and became a very popular prince; there was great mourning in japan when he died |
| Heian | the new capital city that that emperor Kammu of japan built in A.D. 794 |
| Minamoto Yoritomo | the person who became the first shogun of japan; won the war between the taira family and minamoto family |
| Kamakura | the place where the shogun set up his headquarters |
| Ashikaga Takauji | the japanese general who turned against the emperor in 1333 and made himself shogun |
| Murasaki Shikibu | she wrote the tale of genji |
| Kyoto | As the capital, it became a major center of production and trade |
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