AP World Chapter 13 Flashcards

278134696	Taika Reforms	Aimed at completely revamping the imperial administration along Chines lines- failed	0
278134697	The Tale of Genji	Written by Lady Murasaki, it describes his devotion to the pursuit of aesthetic enjoyment	1
278134698	Fujiwara	One of the aristocratic families that had exceptional influence over imperial affairs	2
278134699	Bushi	Warrior leaders that administered law, supervised public work projects, and collected revenue	3
278134700	Samurai	Mounted troops loyal to the Bushi	4
278134701	Seppuku	Ritual suicide that a beaten or disgraced warrior would perform, term means disembowelment	5
278134702	Taira, Minamoto	Provincial families that packed the court bureaucracy, and competition for power turned into open feuding in the mid-12th century	6
278134703	Gempei Wars	For five years, ___ brought great suffering to the peasantry whose farmlands were ravaged. It was the battles between the Taira and Minamoto	7
278134704	Minamoto	Winners of the Gempei Wars	8
278134705	Bakafu	Military government established by Minamoto after Gempei Wars- marked the beginning of the feudal age in Japan	9
278134706	Shoguns	Military leaders of the bakufu	10
278134707	Hojo	One of the warrior families that had been closely allied to the Minamoto that soon dominated the Kamakura regime	11
278134708	Ashikaga Takuaji	Led a revolt of the bushi that overthrew the Kamakura regime	12
278134709	Ashikaga Shogunate	This was established by Ashikaga Takuaji after his revolt of the bushi was successful	13
278134710	Daimyos	Warlord rulers of the nearly 300 little kingdoms of Japan	14
278134711	Koguryo	Tribal peoples in the north of Korea that resisted Chinese rule	15
278134712	Silla and Paekche	Two southern rivals that the independent Koguryo state was at war with	16
278134713	Sinification	The extensive adoption of Chinese culture	17
278134714	Khmers	Today's Cambodians that the Nam Viet's had willingness to intermarry with	18
278134715	Trung Sisters	Led uprisings in 39 C.E. in Vietnam- hostile to the Confucian codes and family systems	19
278134716	Ho Xuan Huong	One of the most famous of Vietnamese women who wrote poetry, and flouts Confucian decorum and mocks her male suitors	20
278134717	Nguyen	Rival that emerged to challenge the claims of legitimacy of the Trinh family that ruled the north	21
278134718	Hue	Capital of Nguyen	22
279863732	False	Japan, Korea, and Vietnam were all ruled directly by China for centuries	23
279863733	Japan	The one (out of Japan, Korea, and Vietnam) that was not ruled directly by China	24
279863734	Taika Reforms	Sought to remake the Japanese monarch into an absolutist Chinese style emperor, and to create in Japan a genuine professional bureaucracy and peasant conscript army to match those of Han and Tang China	25
279863735	True	The Tale Of Genji, the first novel in any language, Genji's life is almost wholly devoted to the pursuit of aesthetic pleasure	26
279863736	False	Women at the Heian court, whose sole purpose in life was to serve men, were not permitted to cultivate aesthetic pleasure	27
279863737	Seppuku	Beaten or disgraced samurai practiced ___ to prove their courage and restore their family's honor	28
279863738	False	The rise of the samurai led to the creation of a free peasantry in Japan	29
279863739	Zen	Type of Buddhism the samurai were largely influenced by	30
279863740	False	The feud between the Taira and Minamoto families led to a steady increase in the power and authority of the imperial household	31
279863741	True	The feudal age of Japan began with the victory of the Minamoto family and the creation of the bakufu, or military government	32
279863742	True	Even though there was chaos and suffering during the warlord period of the 15th and 16th centuries, there was economic and cultural growth in Japan at this time	33
279863743	Pure Land	Buddhism that the Japanese peasants turned to	34
279863744	True	Japanese painters consciously imitated the monochrome paintings of Song China, which they regarded as the apex of the genre	35
279863745	Militaristic	In both western Europe and Japan, feudalism was highly ___	36
279863746	False	In both western Europe and Japan, feudalism led to strong parliamentary institutions and a powerful lawyer class	37
279863747	Western Europe	In which of the two (western Europe or Japan) did feudalism lead to strong parliamentary institutions and a powerful lawyer class	38
279863748	True	After the Silla kingdom of Korea fought China to a standstill, China withdrew its armies in exchange for regular tribute payments and the Silla monarch's submission as a vassal of the Tang emperor	39
279863749	True	In both pottery and printing, the Koreans borrowed from the Chinese and then outdid their teachers	40
279863750	Aristocrats	The only people who really mattered for anything in Korean society	41
279863751	Han	The Chinese first conquered the Viets during the ___ dynasty	42
279863752	True	Women in Vietnamese society had a more favored position than women in Chinese society	43
279863753	Tang	The Vietnamese gained their independence from China after the fall of the Tang dynasty	44
279863754	Peasants	Local Vietnamese officials tended to identify with ___	45