Ancient Japan

1. A piece of land that is completely surrounded by water on all sides.
3. Along with mountains, 80% of Japan is covered in these thick areas of trees.
4. In Ancient Japan, it was often easier to travel by ________ than to try and climb over the bumpy mountains.
8. The Japanese people looked to the ________ for food like fish and seaweed because there wasn't much land for farming.
10. a large group or "chain" of islands.
13. When one country takes an idea from another and makes it their own.
17. The name for the Chinese characters Japan "borrowed" to start writing their own history.
18. The character "山" (Shan or Yama) is a symbol that actually looks like a ________.
19. The biggest of Japan’s four main islands where the city of Tokyo is located.
20. Japan’s name in Japanese, which means "Origin of the Sun".
21. Japan is an island nation located in this large ocean.

2. Cultural ________ happens when ideas travel from one group of people to another.
5. A formal Japanese ceremony that looks like a "slow-motion dance".
6. Most people in Japan live near the ________ because the middle of the islands is filled with steep mountains.
7. Many of the mountains in Japan are actually these "fiery" landforms.
9. The country that ideas traveled through to get from China to Japan.
11. A simple word used in the slides to describe Japan's mountainous and "not flat" land.
12. The direction you would travel from Tokyo to get to the cold island of Hokkaido.
14. The direction you would travel to get to the warm island of Kyushu.
15. Since cows and pigs were hard to raise on mountains, this became the main part of the Japanese diet.
16. The nickname for Ancient China because it was older and had already invented amazing things.