CH 14

In what year did the Han emperors conquer the first Korean kingdom of Choson?

109 BCE

In what year did the Japanese cease to send official embassies to the Chinese emperor?

838

By the eleventh and twelfth centuries, what was teh status of the Japanese court aristocracy?

Aristocratic families at the court depended on alliances with the provincial warrior elite in order to exercise any power.

What government replaced the Kamakura regime int eh early fourteenth century in Japan?

Ashikaga shogunate

What was teh immediate impact of the imperial move to Heian?

Balance of power and aristocracy and Buddhism monks, aristocracy was restored, aristocracy gained positions in Japanese bureaucracy.

Which of the following statements concerning the nature of warfare among the bushie is most accurate?

Battles hinged on man-to-man duels of great champions typical of the heroic stage of warfare.

Which of the following statements concerning the nature of the Korean society is most accurate?

Because of the monopolization of all things Chinese by the tiny Korean elite, neither a merchant nor unartisan class developed in Korea.

What was the religious preference of the KOrean elite?

Buddhism

Which of the following statements concerning the Korean bureaucracy under the influence of CHina is most accurate?

BuddhismKorea established a Confucian examination system based on the Chinese model, but admission to the bureaucracy was determined exclusively by birth.

What group so threatened the security of the Japanese imperial court in the eighth century that the imperial family moved to Heian?

Buddhist monks

Which of the following Chinese cultural traits was NOT introduced into Vietnam following the Han conquest of 111 B.C?

Chinese insistence on the nuclear family.

Which of the following statements concerning the society and economy of the warlord era in Japanese history is most accurate?

Despite political chaos, improvements in agricultural techniques and incentives led to occupation of previously uncultivated areas.

What was the political result of the wars that destroyed the Ashikaga Shogunate?

Division of Japan into 300 little states under the daimyos.

By the middle of the ninth century, what aristocratic family exerted exceptional influence over imperial affairs at the Japanese court at Heian?

Fujiwara

Between 1180 and 1185 the struggle between the two major provincial families--the Taira and the MInamoto--were decided in what wars?

Gem pei

Following the death of Yoritomo, what family dominated the military government of the Bakufu at Kamakura?

Hojo

Which of the following statement concerning the relationship of the imperial court to the provincial military elite is most accurate?

In the absence of an imperial military force, law and order broke down, leading both the emperor and high officials to hire provincial lords and their military retainers.

What was the impact of the rise of the samurai on the peasantry in Japan?

Japanese peasants were reduced to the status of serfs bound to the land they worked.

What is the name of the nature spirits of Japan?

Kamie

What was the military organizations of the Heian government in Japan?

Local members of the aristocracy organized militias.

Which of the following was a result of the growth of power of the provincial warrior elite?

Pretensions to a heavenly mandate and centralized power became ludicrous.

Which of the following statements most accurately describes the nature of the Japanese government following the death of Yoritomo?

Real power rested in the Hojo family, who manipulated the Minamoto shoguns, who in turn claimed to rule in the name of the emperor at Kyoto.

Mounted troops owing loyalty to the military elite were called

Samurai

What title was given to the military leader of the bakufu at Kamakura?

Shogun

What kingdom was successful in establishing a unifies and independent governments in Korea?

Silla

Which of the following lists gives the correct chronological sequence fo the Korean dynasties?

Silla, Koryo, MOngol, Yi

What appears to have been the primary concerns at the imperial Japanese court at Heian?

Social interaction and status.

What were the reforms enacted in 646 that intended to thoroughly incorporate Chinese culture and political structure into Japanese society?

Taika

LIfe in the imperial court at Heian was described in what Japanese novel?

Tale of Benji.

What Japanese ruling faction was destroyed by the full-scale civil war that raged from 1467 to 1477?

The Ashigaga

What was the relationship between the Ashikaga Shogunate and the emperor?

The Ashikaga Shoguns fought the emperor at Koyoto who refused to recognize their authority.

Following the assertion of Vietnamese independence from China in the tenth century, what aspects of Chinese culture were retained by the Vietnamese rulers?

The Chinese administration based on the Confucian examination system.

The victory of the Minamoto in 1185 led to the creation of

The bakufu, or military governmnent at kamakura.

The development of regional power bases in Japan among the warrior elites of the countryside corresponded to what events in China?

The decline of the Tang dynasty.

Which of the following was NOT a development during the era of the daimyos that laid the foundations for lasting political unification in Japan?

The emerging regional commercial artisan classes later transferred their wealth and skills to a national system. The legal and administrative reforms made by daimyos supplied the infrastructure for a uniform state

Which of the following was a critical factor in teh failure of the Chinese to hold or assimilate the Vietnamese?

The failure of Chinese cultural imports to make an impact on the peasantry.

The victory of the Minamoto marks the beginning of what period in Japanese history?

The feudal Age.

Which of the following was NOT a difference between the Viet and Chinese cultures prior to their conquest by the Han emperors?

Viet tendency to extended families and clan groups.

How did the principles of warfare change under the daimyos?

Warfare based on spying, timely assaults, wise command, and organization of massive armies replaced heroic combat.

Which of the following statements concerning the rise of a provincial military elite during the tenth century in Japan is correct?

Within their little kingdoms, warrior leaders administered law/supervised public work projects, and collective revenue.

Which of the following statements concerning the status of women during the era of daimyos is most accurate?

Women were excluded from inheritance and treated as defenseless appendages of their warrior fathers or husbands.

During the period of the warring daimyos, what was the factor that led to a revival of Chinese influence on the cultural level?

Zen Buddhism

Warrior leaders in the tenth century in Japan who controlled provincial areas and ruled from small fortresses in the courtryside were called

bushi

What was the central purpose of the reforms of 646 in Japan?

remake Japanese monarch into an absolutist Chinese-style emporer.