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Text in yellow is for notes! ERA IV REGIONAL INTERACTIONS, 1000- 1500CE Voorhees

Era IV Study Guide Reading Activity 1. Read each SOL strand 2. Highlight essential content 3. Be able to understand what they are asking you to know 4. Simplify… be able to say it in your own words…

Unit WHI.11 Eastern Hemisphere; Asia 1000- 1500CE

The student will apply social science skills to understand the civilizations and empires of Asia, with emphasis on Japan and China, by a) locating and explaining major global and regional trade routes

What would you name these major trade patterns? A. ____________________________________________________ B. ____________________________________________________ C. ____________________________________________________ D. ____________________________________________________ E. ____________________________________________________ F. ____________________________________________________

Now see if you can draw the routes by your descriptions:

The student will apply social science skills to understand the civilizations and empires of Asia, with emphasis on Japan and China, by b) explaining technological advances and transfers, networks of economic interdependence, and cultural interactions

I. Regional Trade:  Regional trade networks and long-distance trade routes in the Eastern Hemisphere aided the diffusion and exchange of technology and culture between Europe, Africa, and Asia  A. Trade routes  1. Diffusion (spread) and exchange of technology and culture  2. The six to know:

Draw these 6 main trade routes on your Eastern Hemisphere map

Traditional trade patterns linking Europe with Asia and Africa a) Trans-Saharan routes across North Africa b) Western European sea and river trade c) Northern European links with the Black Sea d) Silk roads across Asia to the Mediterranean basin e) Maritime routes across the Indian Ocean South China Sea and lands of Southeast Asia f) B. These routes link Europe, Asia, and Africa

II. Technology:  A. Medicine, astronomy, mathematics  B. China:  1. Paper, compass, silk, porcelain  2. Printing and paper money  C. India and Middle East:  Textiles, numeral system

China= making paper  Making paper for 500 years- and nobody knew!  Finally introduced to Japan in 610CE…  Central Asia about 750…  Egypt about 800…  Europe by 1150 CE…  And the first paper mill in America- 1690.

Technology:  D. Waterwheels and windmills

Here’s one today:

Technology continued…  E. Navigation  1. Compass  2. Lateen sail (a triangle sail)

III. Goods: Gold from West Africa Spices from lands around the Indian Ocean

Textiles from India, China, the Middle East, and later Europe

Porcelain Amber from China from and Persia the Baltic region

IV. Religions: • Buddhism: (India)  China  Korea & Japan

Religions…  Hinduism and Buddhism: (India)  SE Asia

Religions… • Islam: (Arabian Peninsula)  W. Africa & Asia

caravan stop in the desert

MEDIEVAL JAPAN

The student will apply social science skills to understand the civilizations and empires of Asia, with emphasis on Japan and China, by c)explaining the impact of Shinto and Buddhist traditions and the influence of Chinese culture on the region

Festival on the water, Japan

V. Medieval Japan  Japanese pottery- 10,000 BCE- 300 BCE

A. Japan had feudalism!

Japan’s first shogun, Minamoto Yoritomo

Feudalism-samurai warriors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDsdkoln59A

Nagoya Castle, Japan

Castles-

Castles-

The Way of the Samurai

Japanese Feudalism  1. The Way of the Samurai-  Based on the warrior’s code, bushido:  Endurance  Loyalty  Courage  Forfeited honor- “ harakiri ” (suicide by disembowelment)  2. Bushido= warrior’s code

Samurai-

Japanese feudalism- (monarch) emperor/ shogun (nobles) daimyo/ samurai (people) merchants, peasants

See where Japan is relative China?

Japan= 4 Islands (archipelago)

B. Location and place 1. Japanese archipelago (four main islands) 2. Mountainous 3. Sea of Japan or East Sea  between Japan and Asian mainland

Japan  Draw the Japanese archipelago

C. Japanese Culture 1. Japanese influenced by proximity to China a) Writing  The Japanese written language is borrowed from Chinese calligraphy • b) Architecture  Also relied heavily on Chinese design and techniques • c) Buddhism  Zen Buddhism developed from Chinese “Chan” Buddhism and meditation

The differences in appearance are subtle but the cultures- huge

Japan- influenced by China but different Japanese Korean Chinese

Japanese calligraphy

A child learns to write his characters in calligraphy school in Tokyo, the capital of Japan

woodblock print- each color= different woodblock

Japanese customs: Harmony of a Tea Ceremony

Shinto Festival of Lights

Sumo Wrestling

11th-century book The Tale of Genji (has been called the first novel in the world)

Temples-

Temples-

Japan

The Wave

Himeji Castle

D. Japan- religion:

A. Shinto 1. Home grown 2. Unique to Japan 3. Natural features 4. Forces of nature 5. Ancestors 6. State religion 7. Worshipped the emperor

Shinto legend- Amaterasu  The Sun goddess hid herself in a rocky cave in heaven- causing darkness and chaos in the world  She was eventually enticed out …  The cave was then closed off- she could not return!

Amaterasu – The Sun Goddess The First Emperor of Japan

Current Emperor Akihito

Emperor’s shrine -

Shinto water purification ritual

Inside Shinto shrine

Aikido Misogi

B. Buddhism: 1. Imported China  Korea  Japan 2. Shinto and Buddhism coexist in Japan

Japanese Buddhism

JAPANESE SHINTO AND BUDDHISM

The student will apply social science skills to understand the civilizations and empires of Asia, with emphasis on Japan and China, by d) evaluating the impact of the Mongol Empire throughout Asia

VI. The Mongols A. Genghis Khan- leader of the “Golden Horde”

B. Mongol Armies 1. Invaded Russia, China, and Muslim states in Southwest Asia, destroying cities and countryside 2. Created an empire  Crash Course: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szxPar0BcMo

Mongolian people today

What did you learn about…  Japan’s geography  Chinese influence  Japanese religions  The Mongol Empire  NUMBER YOUR PAPER 1-6

1) Which Japanese word can be compared to European chivalry? a) Bushido b) Calligraphy c) Shinto d) Amaterasu

2) What aspect does Japan NOT share with China? a) Calligraphy b) Tsunamis c) Buddhism d) Architecture

3) What is the name of the Japanese religion associated with the emperor? a) Buddhism b) Confucianism c) Taoism d) Shinto

4) How best can the land of Japan be described? a) Tropical jungles b) Volcanic terrain c) Desert plateau d) Piedmont