Question: The or is the period between 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when Japanese society was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional daimyo. The period was characterized by economic growth, strict social order, isolationist foreign policies, a stable population, "no more wars", and popular enjoyment of arts and culture. The shogunate was officially established in Edo on March 24, 1603, by Tokugawa Ieyasu. The period came to an end with the Meiji Restoration on May 3, 1868, after the fall of Edo.

A revolution took place from the time of the Kamakura shogunate, which existed with the Tenno's court, to the Tokugawa, when the "samurai" became the unchallenged rulers in what historian Edwin O. Reischauer called a "centralized feudal" form of shogunate. Instrumental in the rise of the new-existing bakufu was Tokugawa Ieyasu, the main beneficiary of the achievements of Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Already powerful, Ieyasu profited by his transfer to the rich Kanto area. He maintained two million "koku" of land, a new headquarters at Edo, a strategically situated castle town (the future Tokyo), and also had an additional two million "koku" of land and thirty-eight vassals under his control. After Hideyoshi's death, Ieyasu moved quickly to seize control from the Toyotomi family. 1. Which shogunate ruled Japan between 1603 and 1868?
2. How many regional daimyo did the country have during that period?
3. Was economic growth good then?
4. Were there many wars then?
5. Did the arts and culture flourish?
6. Who established this period?
7. What was the exact date of it's establishment?
8. What was the exact date of the demise of it?
9. What city is now located at the place where there was a castle headquarters in Edo?
10. Was the Kamakura shogunate peaceful?
11. Was Ieyasu's transfer to Kanto beneficial to him? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Tokugawa
2. 300
3. yes
4. none
5. yes
6. Tokugawa Ieyasu
7. March 24, 1603
8. May 3, 1868
9. Tokyo
10. no
11. yes

Question: Norway ( ; Norwegian: (Bokmal) or (Nynorsk); ), officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a sovereign state and unitary monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula plus the remote island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard. The Antarctic Peter I Island and the sub-Antarctic Bouvet Island are dependent territories and thus not considered part of the Kingdom. Norway also lays claim to a section of Antarctica known as Queen Maud Land. Until 1814, the kingdom included the Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Iceland. It also included Bohuslan until 1658, Jamtland and Harjedalen until 1645, Shetland and Orkney until 1468, and the Hebrides and Isle of Man until 1266.

Norway has a total area of and a population of 5,258,317 (as of January 2017). The country shares a long eastern border with Sweden (1,619 km or 1,006mi long). Norway is bordered by Finland and Russia to the north-east, and the Skagerrak strait to the south, with Denmark on the other side. Norway has an extensive coastline, facing the North Atlantic Ocean and the Barents Sea.

King Harald V of the Dano-German House of Glucksburg is the current King of Norway. Erna Solberg became Prime Minister in 2013, replacing Jens Stoltenberg. A constitutional monarchy, Norway divides state power between the Parliament, the Cabinet and the Supreme Court, as determined by the 1814 Constitution. The kingdom was established as a merger of a large number of petty kingdoms. By the traditional count from the year 872, the kingdom has existed continuously for 1,145 years, and the list of Norwegian monarchs includes over sixty kings and earls. 1. What type of government is Norway?
2. What is their primary language?
3. How many citizens are in Norway?
4. How many countries share a land border with Norway?
5. What group of islands does the country own?
6. How long has it been around?
7. Who is the monarch?
8. What area did they control in 13th century that they don't control now?
9. Anything else?
10. How large is the country?
11. What ocean do they border?
12. When did they adopt their current government?
13. What was it before it was a unified country?
14. Who are Norway's allies? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Unitary monarchy
2. Norwegian
3. 5,258,317
4. Three
5. Svalbard
6. 1,145 years
7. King Harald V
8. Isle of Man
9. The Hebrides
10. unknown
11. Atlantic Ocean
12. 1814
13. A large number of petty kingdoms.
14. unknown

Question: Teary Joe was a boy with a special ability: he could make himself cry in less than a second. If he disliked something, or things became difficult, Teary Joe would not hesitate to put on a pitiful face and set great big tears running down his cheeks. In this way he managed to get practically everything he wanted, because no one could resist the pity inspired by his tearful little face.

But one day, Teary Joe met Pipo. Pipo was asking people in the street for some change, in return for him helping them in any way he could. Pipo was very poor; he had no home and no family, so he made a living however he could. Even so, Pipo always had the biggest smiles on his face.

Joe took to Pipo, so he decided to help him out in making some money. He went over next to Pipo, took off his hat, put it face-up on the ground, and started crying with the most pitiful of expressions. Ina few minutes, Joe's hat was full of coins and sweets, but when Joe offered all this to Pipo, Pipo declined. "I prefer deserving what I receive," answered Pipo with his usual smile, "It's much more fun making an effort to get things. Maybe I haven't gotten everything I've wanted, but I've done a load of interesting things." Teary Joe didn't answer; he just walked sadly away. Joe had got everything he wanted, but he'd done practically nothing of interest the whole day.

That evening, having returned home, Joe requested a delicious cake for his supper. When his mother said no, Joe tried to cry but, remembering Pipo and how joyful he was, he tried to get the cake in some other way. Joe spent the whole evening helping his mother to water the plants and organize the library books.

In the end there was no cake. But that wasn't so bad, because Joe discovered it had been much more fun doing all those things that evening rather than just sitting crying to get a piece of cake that, in the end, wouldn't have been worth it. 1. Where did Teary and Pipo meet?
2. Where?
3. What did he offer to do for them?
4. how?
5. What did Teary Joe think he would do?
6. how would he convince people to give him money?
7. Did people give him money?
8. what kind?
9. Where did they put it?
10. How long did it take to fill it up?
11. Did he give it to Pipo?
12. Why didn't he want it?
13. How did that make Joe feel?
14. Did he have a special ability?
15. What was it?
16. Did he use this to obtain things?
17. What?
18. What size are his tears?
19. When he got home what did he want?
20. Did he get it? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. Pipo was asking for change
2. in the street
3. help them
4. any way he could
5. help Pipo
6. He went over to Pipo, took off his hat, put it face-up on the ground, and started crying
7. yes
8. coins and sweets
9. Joe's hat
10. a few minutes
11. no
12. he preferred making an effort
13. sad
14. yes
15. he could make himself cry in less than a second
16. yes
17. practically everything he wanted
18. great big
19. cake
20. no