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Japanese Culture and Geography Assessment
Answer each question in complete sentences.
1. What are the names of the major islands in the Japanese archipelago?
2. What environmental challenges does Japan’s location present its people? Name at least
three.
3. Who were the first people to fully unify Japan and what title did they give themselves?
4. Define the native Japanese faith and what they worshipped.
5. Was there another faith practiced within Japan? How did it arrive on the island?
6. List at least four different practices that the Japanese adapted from the Chinese.
7. The Japanese are said to have written the worlds first novel. Who wrote it and what was it
named?
8. How did Japanese feudal society form? What was the foundation of the Japanese feudal
system?
9. Who was the military leader of Japan? What were the Japanese warrior caste named?
10. Long Answer Question: What was the code of honor that the Japanese warriors lived by?
How were they expected to act? If they lost their honor, how would they reclaim it?