Y1K Japan☺

Okay so Kai and I are partners for the Y1K project in History. Basically Y1K is the year 1000 (duh) and you and your partner have to set up a stall in a re-enactment of a Y1K marketplace. You have to research what your culture (For us it’s Japan – the other cultures are the Vikings, Holy Roman Empire, Ghana, Khmer, China, Islamic World, England, Russia, India, Spain, and the Byzantine Empire.) and find different NAILD* arguments about your culture in Y1K. When you’re done with all of your research, you have to write an editorial asking permission to set up your stall (obviously you get your stall set up whether it’s good or not…). The editorial includes all the information you researched. Now, it’s time to start working on your stall. You and your partner have to choose your identities (We’re probably going to be artisans, but we’re not sure…). The available choices are: merchants, cartographers, artisans, transportation “engineers”, historians/scribes, and physicians. Now you have to choose what you’re going to sell and if you’re going to have a mini-exhibit or something. Next, you design a sticker/stamp for passports. All visiters to the “marketplace” will have a fake passport (it’s for educational purposes only… the passports are useless in the real world). They will be encouraged to visit stalls from every culture, and when they do visit a stall that stall’s stamp/sticker will go on their passport. We also have to name our stall and make business cards.

We haven’t gotten to the point where we decide what to sell (we are still researching…), but we have some ideas…

Are any of these any good?:

• Mini-Manga about Y1K
• Kumihimos
• Japanese CD (vocaloids)
• Map of Japan in Y1K
• Chart of population

*NAILD is an acronym used to analyze different cultures during Y1K and the “Dark Ages”.

No big cities

Absence of learning

Isolation (geo and cultural)

Lack of notable achievements

Decline