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Chapter 13 Self-Assessment
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The following are in the correct chronological order:
Yayoi period; Yamato period; Koryo kingdom; dynasty of Le Loi
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Heian period; Yamato period; Ashikaga shogunate; Koryo kingdom.
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Ashikaga shogunate; Yamato period; Koryo kingdom; dynasty of Le Loi.
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Kamakura Shogunate; Heian period; Tran dynasty; Parhae kingdom.
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The works of a handful of very literate Japanese women such as Murasaki Shikibu were often written in:
Blue tempera.
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Formal Mandarin.
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Kana script.
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Haikus.
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The authors of the textbook consider the influence of China in northeast and southeast Asia to be analogous to:
The influence of France in Europe.
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The influence of India in China.
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The influence of the Greek-Hellenistic and Roman cultures in Europe.
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The influence of Aristotle on Enlightenment thought.
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Geographically, Korea could be described as:
Basically consisting of planes, with a few high plateaus.
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Generally mountainous in the north and hilly in the south.
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Desolate and arid in the southern areas, forcing South Koreans to import most of their food.
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Rainy in the winter and hot and dry in the summer.
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All of the following is true of the first Korean state EXCEPT:
The first Korean state predated Korean contact with China.
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Was named Choson, meaning "The Land of the Morning Calm."
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Extended far into the area of what is now southern Manchuria.
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We are able to reconstruct the history of early Korea from the copious written records of the first dynasty.
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Systematic Chinese attempts to transform Korea:
Were initiated after the Han conquest in the second century BCE.
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Were largely due to the efforts of Qin Shiuangdi.
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Resulted in the loss of Korean metallurgy.
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Cut off contact between Korea and Japan.
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In the first century BCE:
The Chinese abandoned the entire Korean peninsula.
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The northern kingdom, Silla, invited the Japanese to help them conquer the south.
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Three Kingdoms -- Koguryo, Paekche, and Silla -- developed.
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Paekche rejected Buddhism and Daoism as "vile foreign lies."
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All of the following are true of the Mongol conquests on the Korean peninsula EXCEPT:
The Mongols used weapons such as rockets and bombs in the siege of Kaesong.
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About 250,000 Koreans were deported by the Mongols to be used as slave labor.
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The Mongols kept themselves separate from the Koreans, prohibiting intermarriage or the overt adoption of Korean culture.
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The benefits of protected trade routes and easy travel and transport were useful, but were far outweighed by the cruelty of the Mongol conquest.
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Korea's final imperial dynasty was:
The Koguryo of Choson.
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The Yi.
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The Latter Silla.
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The Former Paekche.
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Sericulture is:
The science of cultivating rice.
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The art of making alcoholic beverages from rice and millet.
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A technique for raising cereal grains.
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The art of raising silkworms to produce raw silk.
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After instituting their version of the Confucian examinations, Koreans:
Developed a social structure that mirrored that of China, but unlike in China, class tensions erupted immediately and official designations were abandoned.
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Became influenced much less by warrior/serf feudal power structures as the responsibilities of the upper classes to see to the wellbeing of the lower classes became codified.
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Developed four basic classes: the high-ranking scholar/gentry; the lower or minor officials; commoners, such as artisans and peasants; and then the lower group, bond slaves, laborers, and prostitutes.
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Focused on maintaining a social structure that allocated specific responsibilities to each level, including women, who tended to become more secluded as Koreans adopted the practice of foot binding.
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All of the following are true EXCEPT:
Asian literacy rates grew in the twelfth century, but never reached the levels attained in Europe.
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By the twelfth century, Korea developed into one of the world's largest centers of printing.
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The demand for printed material was fueled by the demand for Buddhist literature.
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Korean publishers used what may have been the world's first movable metallic type.
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All of the following are true of Japan EXCEPT:
As an island nation, its relative isolation—like that of Great Britain – led to a much greater sense of security.
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It consists of many islands, with the main four islands varying greatly in climatic conditions.
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Japan is fortunate in that an unusually high proportion of its land is suitable for agriculture.
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The rugged landscape of Japan has supported development of politically isolated, culturally united communities.
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The term Ainu means:
Strangers to the land.
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Hairy ones.
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First people.
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Uncivilized people.
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Archaeologists and anthropologists believe that:
Matriarchal and matrilineal clans dominated prehistoric society in Japan.
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The predominant political organization was based on clans led by warrior patriarchs.
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There was very little social or political structure until the Japanese established contact with Koreans and some of the Late Zhou Chinese coastal states.
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The first tribal organizations were centered upon "big men," warriors powerful enough to protect the fragile food supply.
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The sixth century was momentous in Japanese social, political, and cultural development in all of the following ways EXCEPT:
Buddhism was introduced from the Korean state of Paekche.
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The Korean kingdom of Silla eliminated the Japanese colony of Kaya.
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Daoism was formally adopted as the state religion by the Yamato empress Suiko.
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The Chinese Sui dynasty attempted to dominate the Korean peninsula, pushing the levels of emigration from Korea to Japan to high levels.
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The following events/circumstances were important in the development of the Yamato regime EXCEPT:
The introduction of Chinese writing systems and imperial histories.
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The Chinese concept of the "Mandate of Heaven" was rejected in favor of more concrete notions.
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The Soga clan was overthrown and Fujiwara No-Kamatari emerged as advisor to the new emperor.
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A 17-article constitution, modeled on Confucian and Buddhist precepts, was adopted.
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Problems arising during the Heian period in Japan include all of the following EXCEPT:
The effectiveness of political organization in the outlying area diminished as power was absorbed by the capital.
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Although supported by the elite, rapid social change was unwelcome to peasants, artisans, and merchants.
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The bureaucracy weakened as the rural uji began reasserting power.
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Revenues dropped to dangerous levels as much of the land, such as elite clan estates and Buddhist monasteries, became tax exempt.
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The Shogunate era in Japan refers to:
The period during which the emperor personally assumed the responsibilities of military leadership.
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The organization developed by the Japanese to repel the Mongol invasions.
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The period during which all Japanese, including peasants and merchants, had military responsibilities.
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The time when real power was vested in a hereditary military dictator, with the emperor largely acting as a figurehead.
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The dramatic changes in Japanese society and political organization during the period between 1250 and 1600 were made possible by:
The creativity with which the Japanese interpreted and implemented Western ideas.
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Dramatic increases in food production.
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The symbiotic relationship between the emperor and the shogun.
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The wealth accrued through trade with China and Korea.
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All of the following statements are true about the status of Vietnamese women EXCEPT:
Obtaining a divorce seems to have been relatively easy for both parties.
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During the first millennium BCE, women occupied official and bureaucratic roles, such as diplomats and small-business operators.
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During the first millennium, villages and clans were often organized on a bilateral basis.
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They were generally physically sequestered and under the authority of their fathers, husbands, or sons.
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Ancient Vietnamese relationships with China are accurately described by all of the following statements EXCEPT:
The Qin dynasty occupied northern Vietnam in the third century BCE, as did the Han in the second century BCE.
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With the fall of the Han Empire in 220 BCE, the Vietnamese were able to attain a long lasting period of independence.
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The occupation of parts of Vietnam did much to develop and solidify a sense of a Vietnamese identity.
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Two women, the Trung sisters, became national symbols because of their fierce rebellion against the Han dynasty.
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All of the following statements are true of Vietnamese agriculture EXCEPT:
Vietnam has been one of the world centers of wet rice cultivation from the time the grain was domesticated.
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Vietnamese rice yields ran as high as 25 bushels per acre.
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By the mid-fifteenth century, there were about 50 strains of rice cultivated in northern Vietnam.
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During the long rainy season of the summer, vegetables and commercial crops such as hemp would be cultivated.
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Vietnam's relatively unobstructed natural border with southern China had all of the following results EXCEPT:
It assured continual contact and often led to ethnic blending.
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There is some evidence that a degree of ancestor veneration was also transmitted, although not nearing the degree found in Han China.
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It fostered the transmission of Buddhism, leading to Vietnam's development of vibrant art motifs and temples.
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Although Theravada Buddhism was successfully introduced to Vietnam, Mahayana Buddhism did not have an impact on the Vietnamese.
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All of the following are generally accurate about the institutions governing Vietnamese politics, labor, and trade EXCEPT:
The village headman and the institutions of the court provided the basic structures.
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Local leadership was elective, but the choice had to be approved by the imperial court.
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The headman had considerable power, collecting taxes and sitting with a council of notables, composed of members of a scholar-gentry class.
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The notion of a balance between the central and local governments was promoted, but it was always a sham.
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Chinese cultural diffusion:
Was greater in areas such as Korea and Vietnam than in Japan because they had more direct association with the Chinese.
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Was minimal in Japan because of its island status and because China never conquered Japan.
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Was considered a threat by Japanese, Vietnamese, and Korean elites because it tended to invalidate local practices and traditions.
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Proceeded more quickly in Japan than on the Asian mainland, perhaps because they were voluntary and not imposed from the outside.
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