Transcript Japan Maps

Japan Maps
Japan 200 BCE
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In Japan, wet-rice cultivation arrived
in the island of Kyushu in the middle
of the 1st millennium BC, and since
then has spread gradually north and
east throughout the island. The new
crop had been brought by immigrants
from Korea along with a fully-fledged
Bronze Age culture, which in Japan is
called the Yayoi.
Shortly after the arrival of bronze
technology, iron technology also
arrived in Japan, only a couple of
centuries after its first appearance in
Korea. This shows the strong links
that now connected the two lands.
Japan 200-30 BCE
• In Japan, the Yayoi culture, based
on rice farming and possessing
bronze and iron technology,
expanded northward and
eastward from Kyushu Island into
Honshu. This led to a rise in
population, and to increased
warfare, leading to the rise of
many powerful and warlike
chiefdoms - Chinese chronicles of
the period refer to the “100
kingdoms”. This situation is
revealed in the remains of well
constructed wooden hilltop
fortresses dating from this era. At
least some of these chiefdoms
paid some for of tribute to the
imperial Han court in China.