HIS 111
Unit 12: Japan
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The Kanji character for Samurai; source is Wikipedia.
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What you
must do in this unit
What you can do in this unit
- Listen to some further information about this unit
as a mp3 file.
You can also read the information as
a txt file.
Some videos that you can watch for this unit
Extra Credit Options
- Take the short 5-point quiz for chapter 14. Log into Blackboard and look under "Chapter Quizzes." You have five minutes to complete each quiz (multiple-choice questions).
- For
extra credit of a maximum of 50 points, in a one-page paper consider a
comparison of way of the samurai (see Tsunetomo Yamamoto, Hagakure,
which is sometimes called the "way of the samurai") with the way of the
medieval knight (for example in the
Song of Roland). Please be sure to cite your sources. (You may consider writing two pages
for more extra credit, but only if the second page is very good.)
- For a maximum of 50 points extra credit, read the Shinto Creation Stories
and then write a one-page paper in which you compare these stories to
other creations epics such as the Popol Vuh or Genesis. Please be
sure to cite your sources. (You may consider writing two pages
for more extra credit, but only if the second page is very good.)
- For a maximum of 25 points extra credit, read Prince Shotoku,
The Japanese Constitution (if the link does not work, I have a *.pdf copy) and write a paragraph in which you comments on some
of the aspects of Japanese political thought of the seventh century.
- For extra credit, please suggest a
relevant website for this unit of the course. Send the title of the site, the url and a
brief explanation why you find the information interesting and applicable to
the material being studied this unit.
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