Today we are reviewing a large amount of history with "expert groups." Each group has been asked to summaries what they have read in three ways. Make point notes, a sketch note and summary to the blog.
The blog summaries are posted here in comments. Each student must comment on at least two of the "other summaries" The comments will be done in class or as homework.
The Early Days of the Rising Sun
ReplyDeleteIn Japanese, the name Japan means "grate land of the rising sun." The first people to live in Japan were called the Joman, who migrated from South China and some South Pacific island around 9500 B.C.E. They hunted, fished, and gathered food like shellfish and nuts. The Ainu people arrived on Hokaido around the same time. They were believed to have come from the region around the Amur people. They are fighting for territorial rights even though there is only 20 000 of them. In 300 B.C.E the Yayoi arrived from Korea. They grew rice, used iron and bronze tools, had mirrors, and raised cattle and horses. The Yamato period began around 300 C.A. A clan called the Yamato family claimed to have descended from the sun god. This gave them power over other powerful Japanese families. This is how the concept of the imperful sun line originated
Kodi
ps. used up 30 min to right this
Sorry Kodi, that it took you so long to type in! Great work nonetheless! Thank you for your summary.
DeleteThis paragraph has lots of great information, how they gathered food and the tools they used was very interesting to read about, great paragraph.
DeleteI like how Kodi's summary was straight to the point and was easy to follow and learn from.
DeleteThis is a great summary!
DeleteThis paragraph was very interesting, it has lots of key information about the early days of Japan.
DeleteThe Yamato family people sound like fakes.
DeleteIt was a good summary, was it hard to find the info you need to make this, how come it took so long?
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ReplyDeleteBuddhism came to Japan from China, which was received with some skepticism by the Shinto believers.Buddhism offered an afterlife once you died. This appealed to the Japanese as Shinto said almost nothing about the afterlife. In 552 ce Buddhism started officially in Japan. It came from Korea. The Korean's brought a large Buddha to Japan. After awhile of waiting other clans began to follow Buddhism. Japan Sent many artistic Japanese people to China to learn the art of Buddhism. After 30 years the Japanese came back to Japan with knowledge and more importantly a new passion for Buddhism.
I think its very interesting that they switched for the main purpose of having an afterlife.
DeleteI found it easy to follow and it was interesting.
DeleteNice summary!
DeleteThat was a good summary lot's of info
DeleteWow the Japanese were more religous than i expected at the time
DeleteI like how your summary has a lot of information, but is easy to read.
DeleteIt is so strange that back then it was easy to get more people believe in a religion when there is a afterlife, even though almost no one thinks about it anymore. So I think it was a weird thing that they believed in.
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I really like how you put that summary Saoirse! I learnt a lot about the religion and that it took a while to catch on to others. Well written!
DeleteI wonder why the Japanese were skeptical about Buddhism? Was it because they were anxious that more people would favour this new religion over the old, or did they not want to let the Chinese to be a part of their culture?
ReplyDeleteI agree with Cora. I wonder why the Japanese had such a hard time believing in Buddhism? I like Cora's thoughts!
DeleteSaoirse's summary was very interesting, I really like how much detail she put into it. I really found it easy to read and learn from.
ReplyDeleteshe did a very good job and wrote alot she did very good and put alot of detail in to it
DeleteI like how Kodi used so much information in his summary. I wonder, did the Yamato family actually think that they descended from the Sun God, or did they just say that to become powerful?
ReplyDeleteI like how Kodi put all the dates in. That must have taken a lot of work to type that all in! It's great that someone took the time to write a summery in. Gosh 30 minutes!
ReplyDeleteI agree with Rachelle! I really like how all of the dates are in there!
DeleteWow Saoirse That's a well thought out paragraph. I find it very interesting that it caught on mostly because of the after life aspect of Buddhism. It really makes you think why people are so obsessed about what happens after you die. Is it because people are scared of the unknown? But if that is the case why is society always pushing the boundaries and trying to go into that unknown. For example going to the moon, experiments with physics, advances in technology, and trying to incorporate new understandings in life! Sorry for my long rant but it just makes me wonder.
ReplyDeleteAdding on to Rachelle's comment, I think that people are so obsessed with afterlife because it gives them something to look forward to and makes the idea of death not so depressing. Knowing that after this life they have another will make people happier and not worry about death as much.
DeleteNice connections Rachelle!
DeleteThis is very true, it might be that human strive towards things that would put them in complete control, expanding the boundaries between known and unknown, trying to be better than the previous records. And this isn't always smart, but yet we do it. Why? Because we feel the need to.
DeleteThe Heian period was highly known for its arts, potter, literature and naturalistic living. The nobles/royals immersed themselves into the beauty of nature while living a sort of fantasy life, only caring for themselves. They also took time to think about all the sadness in life; the things that they have and will eventually pass away, or how quickly life is passing them by. The power of this time, was held in the hands of the Fujiwara family. To be sure that they overruled with power, they married into the imperial family.
ReplyDeleteWow the nobles and royals didn't sound like very nice people.
DeleteIn Elliot's I'm amazed at how selfish the royals were at the time and that its like the world outside doesn't exist.
DeleteIt's ironic that the people spent time thinking about how quickly life is passing by, normally if someone was worried about that they'd spend as much time as possible doing everything they wanted to instead of wasting time thinking about how they won't always be able to do it.
DeleteThe Heian period sounded very peaceful and also a lot more thoughtful when it comes to realistic things like nature and such. They weren't using all their focus on war and hate so that made this a much nicer time period in my mind
Deletei really liked this paragraph Hollie,Elliot,Gouldney,Brandon and Maya
Deleteit was very interesting and i learned a bit from it good job!
I agree with Calum
DeleteI find it odd that the people spent time think of how fast life will pass by.
DeleteI totally agree with Maia. It just seems logical.
DeleteI think that's interesting how the people of the Heian period were quite negative and spent time thinking about sadness in life. You would think that would make them a quite depressed group of people!
ReplyDeleteThis is true even though everybody seemed so happy the royals had to mess it up even more with the negative feelings.
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ReplyDeleteSaoirse's paragraph was well layed out and easy to read. It held lots of great information and was very interesting.
ReplyDeleteInteresting summary Saoirse. I didn't know that the Shinto religion had no afterlife.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know that the first people to live in Japan were called Joman, it kind of makes me wonder what the transition was to the name Japanese, and I agree with Rachelle, I liked the way you had the dates in your paragraph, Kodi, really well written. - Haley
ReplyDeletei think that these are all amazing coments and have more info in detail than the text book and good job rachelle
ReplyDeletei think that these r all amazing comments and have more info in detail than the text book good job rachelle kai
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ReplyDeleteI'm surprised that the people were so negative.
ReplyDelete- lasted 100 years 700-800 B.C.E
ReplyDelete- Many new ideas came from China! (taxation, governing, and religions ideas)
- Nara was built like the Chines city Chang: Like a rectangle.
- Prince Ahotoku (died 607) built the oldest remaining building in the world, Horyuii Temple.
- Taiho code (was established in 702) was a chinese system of taxation and a code of law.
-Buddhist was strong in the Nara period.
-Buddhist monks had control over the government and people didn't like that.
-The Japanese suffered smallpox and measles epidemics.
-Rulers managed to build many fine temples and create beautiful art to honour the Buddha.
The capital was moved from Nara to Kyoto to get away from the monks.
Why were people against the monks having control over the government?
DeleteKodi's paragraph had lots of good information. I didn't know that in Japanese, the name Japan means "grate land of the rising sun."
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