Prince Shotoku admired Chinese civilization and wanted the Japanese to learn from it After 646 CE Yamato began the Taika or Great Change dividing Japan into districts that reported to the emperor ID: 797695
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Slide2Prince Shotoku
•Prince Shotoku, who ruled around 600 C.E., created a strong, well-organized government for Japan and a constitution of rules based on the ideas of Confucius.
•Prince Shotoku admired Chinese civilization and wanted the Japanese to learn from it.
•After 646 C.E., Yamato began the Taika, or Great Change, dividing Japan into districts that reported to the emperor.•Reforms of the Taika gave rise to Japan’s first central government
Slide3The Nara Period
•In the early 700s, Japanese emperors built a new capital city, which they called Nara.
•Emperors gave positions in the government to nobles from powerful families and paid them with land.
•Chinese influences could be found in the homes of nobles, as well as in the practice of Buddhism and the notion of a hierarchy of officials.•During the Nara period, Buddhism became powerful in Japan; a Buddhist monk tried to seize the throne in 770.