China influenced Japan, Korea, and Vietnam
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| 1330374870 | What indigenous influence remained central to Japanese cultural development? | Shinto religion | 0 | |
| 1330374871 | What were the Taika reforms? What was the result of it? | attempt to make Japanese monarch into a Chinese-style emperor; failed at a professional bureaucracy and peasant army; restored aristocratic power, local leaders | 1 | |
| 1330374872 | How were the Japanese scholars influenced by the Chinese? | language, court etiquette, temples, art | 2 | |
| 1330374873 | What religion did the Japanese mesh with the kami (nature spirits)? | Buddhism | 3 | |
| 1330374874 | What two social classes opposed Chinese/Confucian influence in Japan? How did the Japanese emperor try to offset them? | Buddhists and aristocracy Moved capital from Nara to Heian (Kyoto) | 4 | |
| 1330374875 | The court life during the Heian period focused on aesthetic delights and behavior. What was the literature like? | Verse writing (poems) The Tale of Genji: told of mannered Japanese society | 5 | |
| 1330374876 | What was the role of women in Japan? | creative role: music, poems, scheming, power struggle | 6 | |
| 1330374877 | Who was the Fujiwara family? | aristocratic family that assisted in the decline of imperial rule | 7 | |
| 1330374878 | How did the elite families live? | carved out mini-states with bushi (warrior leaders) self-sufficient | 8 | |
| 1330374879 | Why was it impossible for a Japanese free peasantry? What did the peasantry turn to? | peasants became serfs rigid class barriers (to the warrior elite) pure land Buddhism | 9 | |
| 1330374880 | What were some of the signs that Chinese influence was declining? | no heavenly mandate or centralized power no scholar-gentry b/c of aristocracy Buddhism transformed Tang Dynasty decline | 10 | |
| 1330374881 | What were the Gempei Wars? | war between provincial families (Taira and Minamoto) that marked the beginning of the Feudal Age/bakufu (military government); Kamakura capital | 11 | |
| 1330374882 | Who were the shoguns? | military leaders of the bakufu | 12 | |
| 1330374883 | As the Kamakura regime weakened, where did the actual power lay? | Hojo family > Minamoto family > puppet emperor | 13 | |
| 1330374884 | What happened as a result of defeating the "real" emperor at Yoshino? | power of warlords grew, decline of court aristocracy, peasantry, competitors | 14 | |
| 1330374885 | How did the Ashikaga shogunate self-destruct? What happened as a result? | rival heirs fought at Kyoto 300 mini-kingdoms, daimyo (post-bushi) | 15 | |
| 1330374886 | Society under the daimyo (300 mini-states) was chaotic, but in what ways did the economy develop? | tax collection, irrigation, migration incentives, new tools/animals/crops, guilds | 16 | |
| 1330374887 | What was the role of women during the warrior states period? After? | primogeniture, disinheritance merchant and artisan women had independence | 17 | |
| 1330374888 | What happened to the arts? | Zen Buddhism Shintoism simplistic views, gracefulness, elaborate rituals, tea | 18 | |
| 1330374889 | What groups of people did the Koreans descend from that differentiate them from China? | Machurian and Siberian | 19 | |
| 1330374890 | How did Chinese influence begin in Korea? | conquest of Choson (earliest kingdom) by Han | 20 | |
| 1330374891 | What group of tribal people resisted Chinese rule and created an independent state? Who was its rivals? | Koguryo kingdom (north) Silla and Paekche kingdoms (SE, SW) | 21 | |
| 1330374892 | How was early Korea influenced by China? ... Sinification | Buddhism language, education, attempt at bureaucracy (opposed | 22 | |
| 1330374893 | How did the Tang Dynasty influence Silla? | mini-Tang kingdom; sent emissaries and tribute; peace with China, learning, art, manufactured goods, Confucian examination system | 23 | |
| 1330374894 | What were the lives of the Korean elite/aristocracy like? | dominated imperial government artistic and entertainment pursuits (no meritocracy) Buddhism advanced technology, porcelain | 24 | |
| 1330374895 | How did Chinese influence end in Korea? | Silla alliance with Tang; defeated Koguryo and Paekche Silla became a tribute state; independent Korea | 25 | |
| 1330374896 | What was the main cause for the decline of the Koryo kingdom? How was it renewed? | commoners revolt (against "elite civilization") aristocratic families quarrel; outside invasions Yi Dynasty (aristocratic power after Mongol invasion) | 26 | |
| 1330374897 | How did the Vietnamese first come into contact with the Chinese? | Qin raids; Viet-Chinese trade established | 27 | |
| 1330374898 | Who did the Vietnamese conquer that made them a "distinct ethnic group?" | Red River Valley peoples (Khmers, Tais, south) | 28 | |
| 1330374899 | How did Vietnamese culture differ from Chinese culture? | language, nuclear family (immediate), women independence, dress, etiquette, Buddhism, art, literature | 29 | |
| 1330374900 | How were the Vietnamese influenced by the Chinese? | Qin conquered, Han influenced bureaucracy, schooling, agricultural techniques, military organization | 30 | |
| 1330374901 | What were some "roots of resistance" to Sinification in Vietnam? | aristocratic and peasant revolts (Trung sisters) failure to assimilate peasantry Chinese growing disdain for Vietnamese customs | 31 | |
| 1330374902 | What allowed the Vietnamese to win independence from China? What influences lived on? | strong sense of identity/united resistance distances and barriers, few garrisons, Tang Dynasty collapse; free until French invasion bureaucracy, Chinese-style palaces and imperial rule, civil exams, Confucian education | 32 | |
| 1330374903 | How was the role of the scholar-gentry in Vietnam different from those in China? | identified with peasantry; looked out for local interests and served as leaders in village uprisings; Buddhists more respected | 33 | |
| 1330374904 | Who did the Vietnamese defeat as the migrated south into the Red River Valley? How did they accomplish this? | Chams and Khmers Chinese-style military organization and bureaucracy high population | 34 | |
| 1330374905 | What characterized the division between the peoples of Vietnam? | southern people - less responsive b/c of distance Nguyen (north) vs Trinh (south); fought to unite Vietnam under one monarch | 35 |
