Quiz on East Asian History

How did the Song dynasty ensure the most qualified candidates would fill government jobs?

• They developed China’s first civil service exam.

• They required that civil service exams be taken anonymously.

• They chose government workers from the most prominent families.

• They required candidates to have previous experience and advanced degrees.

Who was Ngo Quyen?

• a shogun from the Minamoto clan who moved Japan’s capital to Kamakura

• a Korean aristocrat who led the military overthrow of the Koryo administration

• a Chinese inventor who developed a printing process 400 years before Gutenberg

• a general who sank Chinese warships and established Vietnam as an independent state

How did the daimyo maintain their power?

• They hired samurai.

• They hired the shogun.

• They hired foreign mercenary soldiers.

• They hired bureaucrats, based on a civil service exam.

Which country was the dominant cultural and political power in Imperial East Asia?

• China

• Japan

• Korea

• Vietnam

What was true of Korea’s and Vietnam’s relationship with China?

• Korea and Vietnam resisted both Chinese culture and Chinese control.

• Korea and Vietnam welcomed both Chinese culture and Chinese control.

• Korea and Vietnam welcomed Chinese culture, but resisted Chinese control.

• Korea and Vietnam resisted Chinese culture, but welcomed Chinese control.

Which dynasty ruled Vietnam when movable type was invented in China? Use the map and your knowledge of East Asia and Chinese influences to answer the questions below.

• Ly

• Song

• Tang

• Koryo

How did Dai Viet transport elephant tusks to Southern Song China?

• over the sea

• down a river

• across the land

• on both land and sea routes

According to the map, what was one of Korea’s exports?

• wood

• books

• medicines

• precious metals

Which dynasty ruled China when paper money was invented?

• Ly

• Song

• Tang

• Koryo

Mongols conquered much of Asia and eastern Europe using what weapons?

• horses and arrows

• horses and muskets

• muskets and cannons

• cannons and battering rams