| A | B |
| One of the four largest Japanese islands | Hokkaido |
| How many mountains in Japan are volcanoes? | 188 |
| What percent of Japan's land is farmable? | 20% |
| What is a major food source for the Japanese? | fish |
| How were Japan's earliest people able to get to Japan? | Over land, Japan was still attached to the Asian continent |
| What does one call a group of families related by blood or marriage? | clan |
| Who headed the Yayoi clans? | warrior chiefs |
| What did Yamato rulers claim gave them the right to rule Japan? | claimed to be descendents of the sun goddess |
| What is important about the line of rulers Jimmu founded? | he founded a line of rulers in Japan that has never been broken |
| Prince Shotoku sent officials and students to this country to learn about strong central governemnt, religion and how to lead an intellectual life? | China |
| Japan was guided by a plan of governemnt or ... | constitution |
| Who begun the Great Change or Taika in Japan? | Yamato |
| What is anism? | all things in nature have a spirit |
| What is kami? | term for the spirits in nature |
| What does Shinto mean? | the way of the spirits |