Core classes Social Studies

 

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”

  1. Geography
  • Archipelago – Honshu -main island w/Tokyo and Kyoto
  • Kyushu- start of Japanese civilization
  • Shikoku-smallest
  • Hokkaido- most northern

 

  1. Mountains
  • Mostly mountains with river valleys
  • ⅘ is mountains (80%)
  1. Problems
  • Volcanic eruptions
  • Earthquakes   
  • hurricanes/ typhoons
  • tsunami/tidal wave
  • RING OF FIRE
  1. Japanese class system
  • Emperor/shogun
  • Daimyo-lords
  • Samurai-warriors
  • nobles -loyal to the daimyo
  • artists/peasants/merchants

5.unifiers

 

  1. 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

 

  1. 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.

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