From Isolation to Adaptation

Define the following term: alternate attendance

• a strict code of regulations aimed at weakening the daimyo (introduced by Tokugawa leyasu)

• a system that forced the daimyo, their armies and families to live in Edo with the shogun every second year

• a policy of isolation from foreigners during the Tokugawa shogunate

• protectors who were responsible for ensuring law and order of an area

Define the following term: bushido

• 'way of the warrior'; the code that all samurai lived by
• a strict code of regulations aimed at weakening the daimyo (introduced by Tokugawa leyasu)
• protectors who were responsible for ensuring law and order of an area
• system of landownership in which a ruler claims ownership of all lands but rewards loyal nobles with control of a domain

Define the following term: daimyo

• protectors who were responsible for ensuring law and order of an area
• 'outer lords' under the Tokugawa shoguns
• 'inner lords' under the Tokugawa shoguns
• feudal lords who controlled major domains during the shogunate

Define the following term: feudal system

• a policy of isolation from foreigners during the Tokugawa shogunate
• 'inner lords' under the Tokugawa shoguns
• farmers who produce small-scale crops
• system of landownership in which a ruler claims ownership of all lands but rewards loyal nobles with control of a domain

Define the following term: ronin

• protectors who were responsible for ensuring law and order of an area
• 'Dutch learning'; ideas about western science and medicine that came to Japan through the few Dutch permitted to live in Japan
• protectors who were responsible for ensuring law and order of an area
• masterless and unemployed samurai

How did the geographical location of Japan affect its worldview?

• The oceans have created a mild climate on the island

• Its isolation from the rest of the world prevented contact with other cultures

• Its nearness to Asia provided them with many trading opportunities

The samurai, the daimyo, and the shogun all share the common experience of

• loss of social status after the end of Edo Japan

• increase in political power during the Meiji Restoration

• decrease in economic wealth during the Edo period

• gain in social influence during the Meiji Restoration

How did the shogun use the feudal system to maintain control of Japan during the Edo period?

• Together the shogun and the emperor set laws for the Japanese to keep control

• The shogun consulted the daimyo to make decisions for the people of Japan

• The Feudal system determined your class and, therefore , no one but the shogun had ultimate power

The exclusion laws passed by the government of Edo Japan, were put into effect as a result of

• Japanese fears of being conquered and enslaved as the Aztecs were

• The fear of disease being spread from foreigners

• The concern of the Shogun over threats to his power and to Japanese culture

Traditional Japanese and Aztec worldviews were similar because in each worldview they believed that

• the people of their nation were favored by the Gods
• the destiny of their nation was to conquer the world
• political leaders were ordinary human beings worthy of respect
• economic growth and trade were less important than creating an empire