Friday, 7 March 2014
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.
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The Shinto religion is based on a series of traditions and customs involving pilgrimages to famous places and shrines. It had no creed or Holy Scripture and it did not have traditional western gods. Instead they had Kami, which were objects instead of people and could be anything from mountains to rivers. These Kami lived in temples where priests could contact them. The emperor was said to have the strongest connection to the Kami. Shintoism usually brought about a love of nature and that is often the point of it.
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That is very intertesting and i think that the description was detailed good job :)
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I find it interesting that they had no creed or holy Scripture.
Deletethose are cool and interesting facts that i did not know kody
DeleteThat had a lot of good information.
Deletei didn't know any of this before i read it nice. ~Alyssa
DeleteNicely summarized! You got the important points.Is Shintoism still practiced today?
DeleteThe Nara Period
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The Nara Period began in the year 700 and lasted for a hundred years. During that time, major events happened. Important ideas from China influenced Japan, such as governing, religious ideas, and taxing system. The layout of the first capital city of Japan, Nara, was taken from China's Chang'an--a rectangle. Buddhism was a big thing in the Nara period. The government was taken over by the monks. This angered many people. This was a hard time for the Japanese--a series of smallpox and measles epidemics took many lives. The new tax could not even provide enough funds to look after everybody. In the end, the rulers built lots of temples and had made pretty art to honor the Buddha. The capital ended up moving away to Heian-kyo to escape the Buddhists.
that is some good interesting stuff
Deletewow the monks took over the government! good for them! Wyatt
DeleteYou have a very nice piece of love the way you talked about everything
DeleteMichael
DeleteThank you for your detailed summary. You covered all of the main points. Do you think that the fact Japan moved its capital signaled the end of the Japanese infatuation with Chinese culture?
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ReplyDeleteBuddhism was brought to Japan in 552 C.E., and was formally introduced in 552 C.E. .The Shinto followers were a little skeptical of the religion, but they were atrracted to it because it had an afterlife. The Shinto religion was a here and now religion. Buddhism was declared the state religion of Japan in 552 C.E., the leaders of japan liked the religion because it gave them control over the other royal families.
GROUP #4- Wyatt, Mekai, Kody, Liam
Good work group #4 I liked how you added why the Japanese were attracted to Buddhism.
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That's very cool, I never knew that Buddhism was so old.
DeleteI like how you added that they were a littke skeptical about it :-)
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I love they way you put this togetter
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Where did Buddhism come from? When the Sun Line declared that Buddhism was to be the state religion they also embraced other aspects of the Chinese culture. Prince Shotoku sent Japanese experts to China to learn their crafts.
DeleteHeian Period 794 -1192
ReplyDeleteDuring the Heian Period there was almost no conflict. The Fujiwara family used the emperors as puppet rulers. They married into the imperial family to gain more power. The imperial court and nobles loved fine clothing, paintings, and sculptures. They believed that people needed to be able to appreciate beauty in nature and other things. Outside the court, these things weren’t important. Wealthy landowners started to gain power. A lot of peasants didn’t like paying high taxes to the imperial court and moved closer to the landowners. They paid rent in exchange for protection. The landowners acquired powerful armies. This signaled the end of the Heian Age.
Sophia Hannah Torvan Jericho
That's very interesting I did not know how the Heian Age ended.
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DeleteI wounder how they kept the conflict to a minimum.
Deletei like the amount of detail put into this post :-)
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wow i didn't know the peasants didn't like paying taxes!
Delete^^by wyatt
DeleteThank you for your detailed and accurate summary. The significance of the the peasants moving to the landlords meant that they had lost the respect and trust for the Imperial Family because they were not looking after their needs.
DeleteEarly Days of the Rising Sun:
ReplyDeleteThe first people who were the Jomon, were the hunter-gatherers, living be hunting, fishing, and gathering food. The Jomon first arrived around 9500 B.C.E. and came from south China. The Ainu, were Japans aboriginal people. They came from the region around the Amur River, and settled off the coast of Hokkaido. The new group of people, were named Yayoi, they came from Korea and brought rice. In 100 B.C./300 C.E. the Yamato family became the rulers. There claim was that they were directly descended from the Sun God.
Kayla,Harley,Alyssa
that had a lot of good details.
DeleteJapan means the "great land of the rising sun." What else did the Yayoi people bring to Japan. The Yamato Family began the imperial sun line in Japan. In each case what has Japan gained from each of these countries?
DeleteThe information that Alyssa's group did was very interesting
ReplyDeleteAlyssa, Kayla and Harley's group had a whole bunch of very interesting information.
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