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| 5595174141 | What regions of Asia were most drawn to Chinese cultural and political models? | The agrarian societies in the East and South | 0 | |
| 5595178918 | When did Chinese influence on Japan peak? | 7th and 8th centuries C.E. | 1 | |
| 5595178919 | What is the name of the nature spirits of Japan? | Kami | 2 | |
| 5595178920 | What religion played a key role in the transmission of Chinese civilization to Japan? | Buddhism | 3 | |
| 5595182569 | In which of the following Japanese periods was Chinese cultural influence most significant? | Nara | 4 | |
| 5595194005 | What were the reforms enacted in 646 that intended to thoroughly incorporate Chinese culture and political structure into Japanese society? | Taika | 5 | |
| 5595194006 | What was the central purpose of the reforms of 646 in Japan? | To remake the Japanese monarch into an absolutist Chinese-style emperor | 6 | |
| 5595196830 | What group so threatened the security of the Japanese imperial court in the 8th century that the imperial family moved to Heian? | Buddhist monks | 7 | |
| 5595196831 | What was the immediate impact of the imperial move to Heian? | The aristocracy was restored to counterbalance the power of the Buddhist monasteries and took over most of the positions in the central government. | 8 | |
| 5595196832 | What was the military organization of the Heian government in Japan? | Local members of the aristocracy were ordered to organize militia forces. | 9 | |
| 5595200298 | Life in the imperial court at Heian was described in what Japanese novel? | Tale of Genji | 10 | |
| 5595200299 | What appears to have been the primary concerns at the imperial Japanese court at Heian? | Social interaction and status | 11 | |
| 5595202503 | By the middle of the 9th century, what aristocratic family exerted exceptional influence over imperial affairs at the Japanese court at Heian? | Fujiwara | 12 | |
| 5595202504 | Warrior leaders in the 10th century in Japan who controlled provincial areas and ruled from small fortresses in the countryside were called | bushi. | 13 | |
| 5595202505 | Which of the following statements concerning the rise of a provincial military elite during the 10th century in Japan is NOT correct? | The rise of the provincial elite corresponded to the recovery of the imperial government and its overthrow of the aristocracy of the court. | 14 | |
| 5595205702 | Mounted troops owing loyalty to the military elite were called | samurai. | 15 | |
| 5595208761 | Which of the following statements 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. | 16 | |
| 5595208762 | Which of the following statements concerning the nature of warfare among the bushi is most accurate? | Battles hinged on man-to-man duels of great champions typical of the heroic stage of warfare. | 17 | |
| 5595208763 | 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. | 18 | |
| 5595211641 | By the 11th and 12th centuries, what was the 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. | 19 | |
| 5595211642 | Between 1180 and 1185 the struggle between the two major provincial families,the Taira and the Minamoto, was decided in what wars? | Gempei | 20 | |
| 5595211643 | The victory of the Minamoto in 1185 led to the creation of | the bakufu, or military government at Kamakura. | 21 | |
| 5595214278 | The victory of the Minamoto marks the beginning of what period in Japanese history? | The feudal age | 22 | |
| 5595217237 | 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 | 23 | |
| 5595217238 | In what year did the Japanese cease to send official embassies to the Chinese emperor? | 838 | 24 | |
| 5595231506 | What title was given to the military leader of the bakufu at Kamakura? | shogun | 25 | |
| 5595231507 | Following the death of Yoritomo, what family dominated the military government of the bakufu at Kamakura? | Hojo | 26 | |
| 5595233736 | 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. | 27 | |
| 5595233737 | What government replaced the Kamakura regime in the early 14th century in Japan? | Ashikaga Shogunate | 28 | |
| 5595233738 | What was the relationship between the Ashikaga Shogunate and the emperor? | The Ashikaga shoguns fought the emperor at Kyoto who refused to recognize their authority. | 29 | |
| 5595236130 | What Japanese ruling faction was destroyed by the full-scale civil war that raged from 1467 to 1477? | the Ashikaga | 30 | |
| 5595239970 | What was the political result of the wars that destroyed the Ashikaga Shogunate? | Division of Japan into 3 hundred little states under the daimyos | 31 | |
| 5595239971 | 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. | 32 | |
| 5595239972 | Which of the following statements concerning the society and economy of the warlord or shogun era in Japanese history is most accurate? | Despite political chaos, improvements in agricultural techniques and incentives led to occupation of previously uncultivated areas. | 33 | |
| 5595243794 | Which of the following statements concerning the status of women during the era of the daimyos is most accurate? | Women were excluded from inheritance and treated as defenseless appendages of their warrior fathers or husbands. | 34 | |
| 5595247697 | 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 | 35 | |
| 5595247698 | In what year did the Han emperors conquer the first Korean kingdom of Choson? | 109 B.C.E. | 36 | |
| 5595251761 | What kingdom was successful in establishing a unified and independent government in Korea? | Silla | 37 | |
| 5595251762 | Which of the following lists gives the correct chronological sequence for the Korean dynasties? | Silla, Koryo, Mongol, Yi | 38 | |
| 5595255340 | Which of the following statements concerning the Korean bureaucracy under the influence of China is most accurate? | With the establishment of the Confucian examination system, advancement within the civil service was determined almost exclusively by test scores. | 39 | |
| 5595258019 | What was the religious preference of the Korean elite? | Confucianism | 40 | |
| 5595258020 | Which of the following statements concerning the nature of the Korean society is most accurate? | Korean society followed the Chinese model of a strong scholar-gentry, a weak aristocracy, and a highly regarded though politically impotent peasantry. | 41 | |
| 5595265515 | Which of the following was NOT a difference between the Viet and Chinese cultures prior to their conquest by the Han emperors? | Political institutions | 42 | |
| 5595273695 | What was the political result of the Vietnamese drive to conquer regions south of the Red River basin? | The division of the Vietnamese into two kingdoms with capitals at Hue and Hanoi | 43 | |
| 5595275918 | Which of the following cultural traits was NOT introduced into Vietnam from China following the Han conquest of 111 B.C.? | Chinese examination system and bureaucracy | 44 | |
| 5595275919 | Which of the following was a critical factor in the failure of the Chinese to conquer or assimilate the Vietnamese? | The Vietnamese resistance to Chinese crossed both class and gender barriers | 45 | |
| 5595275920 | 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 administrative system based on the Confucian examination system | 46 |
