Chapter 13 : Japan, Korea, Vietnam Flashcards

101146081	Japan began borrowing heavily from China's culture	In the 5th and 6th centuries	0
101146082	In what year were the Taika reforms enacted in Japan?	646 AD	1
101146083	What was the central purpose of the Taika reforms in Japan?	remake Japanese monarch into an absolutist Chinese-style emperor	2
101146084	When the emperor moved his government from Nara to Heian,	the aristocracy took over most of the positions in the central government	3
101146085	The Tale of Genji described	the life at the imperial court at Heian	4
101146086	the ninth century, what Japanese family dominated the imperial court?	Fujiwara	5
101146087	Bushi were	warrior leaders in the tenth century who controlled provincial areas of Japan from small fortresses	6
101146088	Not true about the rise of a provincial military elite during the tenth century in Japan	The rise of the provincial elite corresponded to the recovery of the imperial government and its overthrow of the aristocracy of the court.	7
101146089	Samurai were	mounted troops who served the provincial military elite.	8
101146090	What is true about nature of warfare among the Bushi?	Battles hinged on man-to-man duels of great champions typical of the heroic stage of warfare.	9
101146091	The rise of the samurai in provincial Japanese society	reduced peasants to the status of serfs bound to the land they worked.	10
101146092	The Gempei wars	settled the power struggle between the Taira and Minamoto families.	11
101146093	The end of the Gempei wars signaled the beginning of	the feudal age	12
101146094	Which of the following was not a result of the growth of power of the provincial warrior elite?	The Confucian precept that warriors should dominate the social and political world was strengthened.	13
101146095	In 838 the Japanese	ceased to send official embassies to the Chinese emperor.	14
101146097	The Korean bureaucracy	admitted members almost exclusively by birth rather than test scores.	15
101146098	One of the major reasons for the Chinese failure to assimilate the Vietnamese was	the lack of impact of Chinese cultural imports on the Vietnamese peasantry.	16
101146099	What regions of Asia were most drawn to Chinese cultural and political models?	agrarian societies on east and south	17
101146100	What religion played a key role in the transmission of Chinese civilization to Japan?	Buddhism	18
101146101	What group so threatened the security of the Japanese imperial court in the eighth century that the imperial family moved to Heian?	Scholar gentry	19
101199196	Immidiate impact of move to Heian?	Aristocracy restored to counterbalance Buddhism power and took over central government positions	20
101199197	Relationship of imperial court to provincial military elite?	in absense of imperial military force law and order broke down leading emperor and official to hire lords	21
101199198	Political result of wars that destoryed the Ashikoga Shogunate?	japan divided into 300 little states	22
101199199	Impact of rise of samari on peasantry?	they were reduced to serfdom	23
101199200	Korean bureaucratic under Chinese influence....?	Korea established exam system but admission was based on birth not test scores	24
123067833	The development of regional power bases in Japan among the warrior elites of the countryside corresponded to what events in china	decline of tang	25
123067834	What kingdom was successful in establishing a unified and independent government in Korea	silla	26
123067835	Following the assertion of vietnamese independence from China in the 10th century, what aspects of chinese culture were retained by the vietnamese rulers	chinese admin system based on confucian exam system	27
123067836	Political result of the wars that destroyed the Ashikaga Shogunate	division of Japan into 300 little states	28
123067837	Women status during the daimyo era?	while daighters of the bushi often got some martial training, under the daimyos women were excluded from inheritance and treated as defenseless appendages of their warrior fathers or husbands	29
123067838	Primary concern at the imperial court at Heian?	social conventions and original verse	30
123067839	Relationship between Ashikaga shogunate and emperor?	Ashikaga shoguns fought the emperor at Kyoto who refused to recognize their authority and drove him to the mountain town of Yoshino while setting up a puppet empire	31
123067840	how did warfare change under the daimyos?	scientific warfare based on spying, timely assaults, wise command and organization of massive armies replaced heroic combat	32
123067841	Status of Japan court aristocracy	aristocratic families at the court of depend on alliances with the provincial warrior elite in order to excersize any power	33