| A | B |
|---|
| Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu | Japan's largest islands |
| Yayoi | the ancestors of the Japanese people |
| portion | part of a whole |
| Japan | a chain of islands in the northern Pacific Ocean |
| constitution | a plan of government |
| Jimmu | titled "the emperor of heaven" founded a line of rulers in Japan |
| clan | a group of families related by blood or marriage |
| animism | belief that all natural things are alive having their own spitits |
| Prince Shotoku | created Japan's first constitution; borrowed many ideas from China |
| shrine | holy places |
| The islands of Japan are | mountaintops that rise from the floor of the ocean |
| To honor the kami | the Japanese worshipped at shrines |
| Shotoku sent | students and officials to China |
| Who ordered Buddhist temples and monasteries to be built throughout Japan | Shotoku |
| The Yayoi were skilled in | farming, pottery, and metalworking |
| These people performed rituals at the shrines | musicians, priests, and dancers |
| The Taika, or Great Change | divided Japan into provinces |
| What ideas shaped Japan's religion? | Japanese beliefs developed into Shinto |
| Whatideas shaped Japan's government? | Japan built a strong central government modeled after China |
| Because Japan was mostly made up of mountains | farmland was limited |
| Japan's mountains and oceans | isolated Japan and shaped its society |
| Japan was settled by people who came from | northeast Asia |
