Deck 11: The East Asian Rimlands: Early Japan, Korea, and Vietnam

Question 1

How did Korea and Vietnam maintain their cultural identities despite long-term Chinese domination?

Answer 1

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Question 2

What was the purpose of Chinese and Japanese gardens and what spiritual principles do they tend to reflect?

Answer 2

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Question 3

It can be argued that the symbol of medieval China is the scholar-gentry while in Japan it is the samurai warrior. How do you account for the difference between the two societies?

Answer 3

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Question 4

Compare and contrast the status and function of the medieval Japanese samurai warrior with that of the medieval European knight.

Question 5

Compare and contrast the Heian era of Japan with the period of the Kamakura shogunate. What changed, and why?

Question 6

What is the relationship between the major agricultural regions in Japan and its political development and historical evolution?

Question 7

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance.
Asian and Pacific tectonic plates

Question 8

What were the major developments in early Japanese literature, art, and architecture?

Question 9

Compare and contrast the different manifestations of feudalism in Japan, Europe, and India.

Question 10

Discuss family life and the roles of women in Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. In which society and at what time did women have more freedom or equality, particularly as compared to women in China?

Question 11

What were the probable ethnic roots of the Japanese people? What traditional ideas about Japanese origins were devised in Japan to explain its founding? Are the latter compatible with the former? Why or why not?

Question 12

What were the possible reasons why Japan failed to adopt the Confucian-based civil service examination system?

Question 13

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance.
Pacific current

Question 14

"China was the paradigm of all East Asian societies." Using examples, discuss, pro and con.

Question 15

"Japan borrowed from China, but only selectively." Discuss with examples.

Question 16

What were the advantages and disadvantages of Japan having a governmental system in which the emperor reigns and the shogun rules?

Question 17

Discuss the relationship between Japanese Shinto and Buddhism, regarding the apparent compatibility for many Japanese during the era from 1000 to 1500.

Question 18

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance.
Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu and Shikoku

Question 19

Trace the development of government in Korea from the era of the three kingdoms through the establishment of the post-Yuan Dynasty. How did local and Chinese ideas and institutions influence this development?

Question 20

Is Japan's location on islands located off the East Asian coast the most important reason that it developed as it did before the 1600s? If it is, why so? If not, what was and why?

Question 21

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Taika reforms

Question 22

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shoen

Question 23

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Heian

Question 24

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Nara

Question 25

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Amaterasu

Question 26

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Yamato plain and Yamato clan

Question 27

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Jimmu

Question 28

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Kamakura shogunate

Question 29

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Jomon and Yayoi cultures

Question 30

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Minamoto Yoritomo

Question 31

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shogunate system

Question 32

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Fujiwara clan

Question 33

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uji

Question 34

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bakufu

Question 35

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Ainu

Question 36

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Izanagi and Izanami

Question 37

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Bushido

Question 38

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Nihon Shoki

Question 39

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Shotoku Taishi

Question 40

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samurai

Question 41

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Ashikaga era

Question 42

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kami

Question 43

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shogun

Question 44

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bonsai

Question 45

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eta

Question 46

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genin

Question 47

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Kyoto

Question 48

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No

Question 49

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"linked verse"

Question 50

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the tea ceremony

Question 51

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Onin War

Question 52

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Mongol invasions

Question 53

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kamikaze ("divine wind")

Question 54

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Zen/Chan

Question 55

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"guardian kings"

Question 56

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satori

Question 57

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Murasaki Shikibu

Question 58

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daimyo

Question 59

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Shinto

Question 60

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haiku

Question 61

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Japanese Constitution

Question 62

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chu nom

Question 63

In reaction to the Tang infiltration into the Korean Peninsula,

A) relations between the Korean kingdoms and the Japanese rulers became estranged.
B) Japanese governmental power became more decentralized for a time.
C) Japanese rulers sought alliances with the remaining Korean states and looked to centralize their power.
D) Japan declared war upon Korea.
E) Japan declared war upon Tang China.

Question 64

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance.
the Trung Sisters

Question 65

Early Japanese people - and some modern Japanese as well - believed the emperor was

A) sent to rule by the god Izanagi.
B) more human than divine.
C) charged by the gods with protecting the people from harmful forces.
D) a direct descendent of the goddess Amaterasu.
E) the human embodiment of god on earth.

Question 66

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance.
Koguryo, Paekche and Silla

Question 67

The so-called "seventeen-article constitution" involved

A) a decentralization of Japanese government by Shotoku Taishi.
B) an effort to enable the Japanese to conquer the Tang Dynasty of China.
C) the formal establishment of feudalism.
D) a last-ditch effort to keep peasants under Buddhist control.
E) a centralized government under a supreme ruler and a merit system.

Question 68

Agriculture in Japan

A) was fundamentally changed by the introduction of rice cultivation about 400 B.C.E.
B) ended when Uji, the Yayoi leader, seized power after the Battle of Sapporo.
C) takes place entirely in the mountains, with no extensive lowland or plains areas except on the island of Ryuku.
D) is possible on a significant scale on 80 percent of Japanese land.
E) was insufficient to take care of the population, thus Japan depended upon importing rice.

Question 69

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Annam and Champa

Question 70

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Rashomon Effect

Question 71

Shotuku Taishi

A) was a Chinese Buddhist monk who became the first Heian emperor.
B) was believed to be the son of Izanami by the Koreans of Silla and people of Shikoku.
C) used Chinese political procedures to strengthen Japanese unity to resist Chinese power.
D) sent missions to India to study the more centralized system of government there.
E) was the first shogun of Japan.

Question 72

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance.
chonmin

Question 73

The four Japanese islands are

A) Honshu, Luzon, Hainan, and Guam.
B) Kyushu, Taiwan, Ryuku, and Kamchatka.
C) Shikoku, Kyushu, Hokkaido, and Honshu.
D) Okinawa, Tinian, Ryuku, and Diego Garcia.
E) Olane, Hokkaido, Sakhalin, and Shikoku.

Question 74

Instructions: Identify the terms and briefly state their historical significance.
Yi Song-gye and the Yi dynasty

Question 75

According to Japanese creation myths, how did Japan come to be?

A) Via a battle between the warring gods Izanami and Amaterasu
B) Through the marriage of the god Izanagi and the goddess Izanami
C) When the goddess Ameratsu breathed life into the islands that form Japan
D) When the deities sent two sister goddesses to preside over the land and sea
E) Through a great flood, similar to the stories of Noah and Gilgamesh

Question 76

What is true of the Japanese islands?

A) Honshu receives over 200 inches of snow each year.
B) It contains so many mountains that the percentage of land that it can use for farming is under three percent.
C) Since its mountains are volcanic, much of its soil is very poor.
D) The nearness to the Asian and Pacific tectonic plates causes it to be subject to violent earthquakes.
E) The largest of the four main islands is Kyushu.

Question 77

The earliest known Neolithic inhabitants of Japan are known as the

A) Jomon.
B) Yayoi.
C) Yamato.
D) Ainu.
E) Inuit.

Question 78

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Dai Viet

Question 79

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Japanese Imperial Family

Question 80

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Koryo dynasty