History Final Quiz Questions

Prior to the adoption of wooden architecture for Buddhist and Shinto sites, the main religious monuments of ancient Japan were enormous mounds called __________.

• Kawaii

• Kofun

• Kaworu

• Kami

In addition to pagodas, what other type of tall building was built across Japan in the 1500s-1600s?

• factories

• cathedrals

• castles

• pyramids

Which is one of the complexities addressed by the plan of the Meenakshi Temple complex in Madurai?

• It contains the intersection of a sacred river and a royal highway.

• It links a marketplace at the west end with a palace complex to the east.

• It incorporates a stupa from a pre-existing Buddhist monastery.

• It accommodates temples devoted to two major deities.

These buildings are examples of the ______ typology.

• tatami

• minka

• temple-town

• basilica

Beijing's layout can be seen both as a "top-down" diagram (imposed by imperial tradition), and as an everyday urban pattern consisting of courtyard houses called siheyuan and streets called __________.

• dry landscape

• Ming-tan

• dougong

• hutong

The Khmer empire built numerous barays, with the purpose of...

• containing flood waters for agricultural use

• marking the outer boundaries of the empire

• drying and storing the wheat harvest

• imprisoning their political enemies

What state/society built the Kasubi Tombs?

• The Tokugawa Shogunate

• The Khmer Empire

• The Zagwe Dynasty

• The Bugandan Kingdom

What is one advantage of the multi-layered frame, separating the ceiling and roof layers?

• It allows air to circulate through gaps in the structure.

• It creates a zone of storage space above the ceiling.

• It provides additional defense in case of attack.

• It makes the building fireproof.

What is unusual about the Ise Grand Shrine construction process?

• It is constructed of fired clay, glazed and textured to look like wood.

• Its building materials were all taken from sites where the Buddha once lived.

• It is built from pieces of a royal palace, reassembled to create a Shinto shrine.

• It is ritually dismantled and rebuilt every twenty years.

What was Angkor Wat's original purpose?

• Hindu temple

• Buddhist university

• royal tomb

• Shinto shrine