Time Line of Ancient Japan

Range:

8000 b.c.e. to 0720 c.e.
  • Before 8000 b.c.e.
    Jōmon culture is developing in Japan.
  • c. 7500 b.c.e.
    The indigenous Japanese religion Shintō grows from the animistic religion of the Jōmon people who lived in Japan for thousands of years after this time, though some scholars believe that elements of Shintō entered Japan when northern Mongoloid people, probably from Korea, invaded Japan after 1000 b.c.e.
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