Japanese History Quiz

Which sentence below describes cultural diffusion?

• Warships and armies from Japan attacked Korea.

• Practices and beliefs spread from Korea to Japan.

• Written languages developed separately in Japan and Korea.

• Korea and Japan grew different crops because of different climates.

What is one important way in which Prince Shotoku changed Japan?

• He turned it into an agricultural society.

• He divided power among the chiefs of clans.

• He increased contact with neighboring cultures.

• He introduced the craft of bronze and iron smithing.

When Korean workers settled in Japan, how did they change the lives of the Japanese?

• They set up a new government over the country.

• They advised the emperor on government policy.

• They brought knowledge and skills from the mainland.

• They became the customers who bought Japanese crafts.

Before the time of Prince Shotoku, Japanese government

• ruled over Korea and China.

• depended on local leaders.

• had a bureaucracy of officials.

• filled jobs based on examinations.

Prince Shotoku's creating ranks for government officials was based on

• Shinto ideas.

• Muslim ideas.

• Buddhist ideas.

• Confucian ideas.

Emperor Temmu and Empress Jito made changes in land ownership to strengthen imperial power. Who would have been most upset by these changes?

• merchants

• clan leaders

• peasants

• military leaders

If a visitor compared the Chinese capital Chang’an and the Japanese capital Nara, what difference might the visitor notice?

• Nara lacked a wall for protection.

• Nara lacked an imperial palace.

• Nara lacked religious temples and monasteries.

• Nara lacked an orderly street pattern.

The design of a Shinto temple would most likely draw attention to:

• a code of moral rules

• worship of foreign gods

• the cycle of pain and suffering

• respect for the beauty of nature

In Buddhist teachings, how does meditation help lead to wisdom?

• by teaching the steps to a moral life

• by emptying the mind of distracting thoughts

• by providing a time to regret one's sins

• by encouraging the study of books by enlightened teachers

A central teaching of Mahayana, the form of Buddhism that reached Japan, was that:

• life on Earth is the only life

• all people can reach nirvana

• all buddhas hold false beliefs

• only the material world is real