Unit 3

From Isolation to Adaptation

Activity

Document: Reading/Study Guide Unit 3: Chapter 12, Lesson 3

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3. Read pages 274, 275, and 276 of your textbook.
• Answer the following questions in your Reading/Study Guide.
  
  
• What natural resources did Japan have?
  
• What helped compensate for the small amount of arable land in Japan?
  
• How was rice used other than as food?
  
• What other resource was in ample supply?
  
• Why did the Japanese have sumo wrestlers load the rice onto Commodore Perry’s ships?


4. Read "A Homogeneous Society" on page 277 and all of page 279 of the textbook.
   
• Answer the following questions in your Reading/Study Guide.
  
  
• What geographic factor contributed most to the development of a homogeneous society is Japan?
  
• What did the sea provide?
  
• How did the Japanese treat the Ainu?
  
• What similarities exist between the experiences of the Ainu and our Canadian Aboriginal peoples?


5. When you are finished, proceed to the next page.