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

Question 1

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

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Question 2

Can the term "feudal" be accurately applied to the medieval Japanese society? How does Japanese "feudalism" compare with that of Europe between 800 and 1500? Compare and contrast the status and function of the medieval Japanese samurai warrior with that of the medieval European knight.

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Question 3

What role did geography play in Japan's early development? How did it influence its social,religious,and political institutions? By comparing and contrasting Great Britain and Japan,can you make any generalizations about the development of insular societies?

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Question 4

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

Question 5

How was the Japanese aristocracy able to suppress the centralization of the Japanese government? How does this contrast with the governmental system of China? What were the advantages and disadvantages of Japan having a governmental system in which the emperor reigns and the shogun rules?

Question 6

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

Question 7

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

Question 8

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 9

How has Vietnam's resistance to attempted conquest been a primary determinative factor in the development of Vietnamese culture? How has the strong Vietnamese sense of cultural distinctiveness made them resistant to assimilation by China?

Question 10

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

Question 11

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Amaterasu

Question 12

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

Question 13

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

Question 14

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Asian and Pacific tectonic plates

Question 15

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?

Question 16

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Izanagi and Izanami

Question 17

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Pacific Current

Question 18

What were the major developments in early Japanese literature,art,and architecture? What is meant by the statement "Tea and zen have the same flavor"?

Question 19

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Nihon Shoki

Question 20

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Hokkaido,Honshu,Kyushu,and Shikoku

Question 21

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shoen

Question 22

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samurai

Question 23

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Jomon and Yayoi cultures

Question 24

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Nara

Question 25

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kamikaze/"divine wind"

Question 26

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Mongol invasions

Question 27

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Minamoto Yoritomo

Question 28

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Heian

Question 29

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Kamakura shogunate

Question 30

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Bushido

Question 31

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"land of Wa"

Question 32

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bakufu

Question 33

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Taika reforms

Question 34

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Shotoku Taishi

Question 35

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Fujiwara clan

Question 36

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shogun

Question 37

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Ainu

Question 38

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uji

Question 39

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Yamato plain and Yamato clan

Question 40

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Jimmu

Question 41

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Ashikaga era

Question 42

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the tea ceremony

Question 43

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"linked verse"

Question 44

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haiku

Question 45

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bonsai

Question 46

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chonmin

Question 47

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Kyoto

Question 48

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Murasaki Shikibu"s The Tale of Genji

Question 49

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Koguryo,Paekche and Silla

Question 50

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Onin War

Question 51

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genin and eta

Question 52

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kami

Question 53

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Pure Land sect/Jodo

Question 54

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Zen/Chan

Question 55

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Shinto

Question 56

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satori and zazen

Question 57

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daimyo

Question 58

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"guardian kings"

Question 59

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Koryo dynasty

Question 60

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No

Question 61

The new class of Japanese military officials and retainers whose purpose was to protect their patrons and their property was the

A) Bushido.
B) shogun.
C) samurai.
D) kamikaze.
E) seppuku.

Question 62

All of the following were true about the society established by the Yayoi except

A) the foundation of the society was its basic unit, called the han.
B) it was a tribal society that divided its people into several clan groupings called uji.
C) the leadership of each clan was provided by a hereditary chieftain.
D) it contained a minority of aristocrats, and a majority of lesser people.
E) it was based upon agriculture.

Question 63

After the death of Shotoku Taishi,

A) the Tokugawa clan seized power.
B) the Fujiwara clan was able to decentralize rule in Japan.
C) the unequal availability of the civil service examinations enabled the aristocracy to dominate the government.
D) the rural upper classes were unable to prevent tax revenues from enriching the urban nobility.
E) the emperor took up residence in Edo.

Question 64

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 65

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Annam and Champa

Question 66

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Yi Song-gye

Question 67

Shotoku 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 68

The bakafu system

A) never gained a foothold in Japan, although it became a central part of Korean culture.
B) implemented the use of the uji wherever it came to power.
C) was the primary cause of the Onin war.
D) was the centralized government under the shogun.
E) produced Confucian scholars for the Japanese bureaucracy.

Question 69

The Japanese creation myth

A) was identical to that of the ancient Sumerians.
B) stated that Kusaka and his daughter Krishnu had created the earth in two days and established Japan two months later.
C) involved the marriage of the god Izanagi and the goddess Izanami.
D) was discarded during the Heian period.
E) involved a great flood, similar to the stories of Gilgamesh and Noah.

Question 70

Which of the following 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 them to be subject to violent earthquakes.
E) The largest of the four main islands is Kyushu.

Question 71

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 72

Known as "the way of the warrior," the strict code of the Japanese retainer was called

A) hara-kiri.
B) Bushido.
C) Shogun.
D) Samurai.
E) kamikazi.

Question 73

Nara and Hein were modeled on the city of

A) Edo.
B) Chang'an.
C) Beijing.
D) Kyoto.
E) Xian.

Question 74

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 75

The two early Japanese capitals were ____ and ____.

A) Edo and Kamakura.
B) Edo and Ashikaga.
C) Nara and Edo.
D) Heian and Kamakura.
E) Nara and Heian.

Question 76

The earliest known Neolithic inhabitants of Japan are known as the

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

Question 77

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the Trung Sisters

Question 78

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) Shotoku Taishi made contacts with Tang rulers in order to adopt Chinese governing methods.
D) Japan declared war upon Korea.
E) Japan declared war upon Tang China.

Question 79

Japan's people

A) are the only racially homogenous people in East Asia.
B) are all descended from the Ainu invaders who took over the islands by 75 C.E.
C) never developed a locally originated belief system.
D) are the result of a mixture of peoples from various parts of Asia and beyond.
E) are all biologically descended from Amaterasu.

Question 80

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Dai Viet