In Social studies, it is fun because you can learn about the world and make stuff like make a google doc like this one. (the most recent.)
“Ancient Japan”
- Geography
- Archipelago – Honshu -main island w/Tokyo and Kyoto
- Kyushu- start of Japanese civilization
- Shikoku-smallest
- Hokkaido- most northern
- Mountains
- Mostly mountains with river valleys
- ⅘ is mountains (80%)
- Problems
- Volcanic eruptions
- Earthquakes
- hurricanes/ typhoons
- tsunami/tidal wave
- RING OF FIRE
- Japanese class system
- Emperor/shogun
- Daimyo-lords
- Samurai-warriors
- nobles -loyal to the daimyo
- artists/peasants/merchants
5.unifiers
- Oda Nobunaga
He ruled June 23, 1534 – June 21, 1582
He unified japan because Through alliances and military conquests
HE accomplished and overviewed aphakia
B Toyotomi Hideyoshi
He ruled March 17, 1537- September 18, 1598
He unified former liege lord
He accomplished end to the warring states period
Tokugawa ieyua
He ruled to 1543 1868
He unified Japan government was a feudal military dictatorship called bakufu, with the shogun at the top
HE accomplished leader
- Hien Age
- 794-1185
- Chinese influence:
- Government: Bureaucracy (departments)
- Centralized govt-one leader
- Religion: Buddhism & Taoism
- Economy trade with China
7.Unifiers
Oda Nobunaga 1568-1582
- First to use firearms/weapons/guns
- Opened Japan to international trade: China, Korea, P.I, Thailand, Indonesia, Portugal, Dutch, Holland
Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1585-1591
- Made a treaty with Tokugawa Ieyasu
- Ended the civil war once and for all -brought peace
Tokugawa Ieyasu- 1603-1616
- Defeated all other daimyo at the battle of sekigahara
- Kicked out all foreigners, closing off Japan
8.. Edo period
Tokugawa Shogunate- 1603- 1868
- Isolation (no foreginers)
- Peace
- Prosperity
- Military control
Meiji Restoration
Meiji-1868-1914
- Admiral Perry
- Modernize (economy by international trade)
- Westernize (rights Democracy.)
You can do the same but with a slideshow and present it in a whole class. Also, I think it is fun learning about the world and culture and we read in a website called Discovery Ed. And I think it is cool to learn about the world.