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Medival china and china

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Why did china develop in isolation
To protect its self from everyone around it
Why did medieval japan develop isolation
To stop the government from going corrupt
The Great Wall
A barrier made of walls across China's northern frontier.
Taoism
A Chinese philosophy in which people live a simple life in harmony with nature.
Silk road
an ancient trade route between China and the Mediterranean (4,000 miles)
Shinto
"Way of the Kami"; Japanese worship of nature spirits
Kami
Any sacred being worshipped in Shinto including nature spirits and ancestors
Samurai
Class of warriors in feudal Japan who pledged loyalty to a noble in return for land.
Buddhism
A religion based on the teachings of the Buddha.
dynsasty
ruling family
Qin Dynasty
(221-207 BCE) The first centralized dynasty of China that used Legalism as its base of belief.
Ming Dynasty
the imperial dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644
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