1. Why did women play such a large role in the Heian period?

"Women like Lady Murasaki Shikibu were educated in the arts and in Japanese calligraphy and became widely read writers, and women were also able to take the lead role in rearing and educating both their male and female children."

The planes of Japan attacked the Pearl Harbor in Hawaii then The US government decided to take revenge for what the Japanese did so they bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki