The History of the Yamato Kingdom

The most important development of the tumulus period was the rise of the centralized state of yamato. This enabled the yamato kingdom to spread its control over a great deal of japan, from northern kushu to roughly the area of modern tokio by around 500 a d. Some speculate that this is because evidence from those sites could suggest that the modern japanese emperors were of korean ancestry. Is thus the first emperor for whom there is any real historical evidence. Previous emperors were likely to have existed in some form, but it's unclear exactly what. According to shinto legend, after the world was created by the gods isnami and isanagi