WorksheetsChapter 13 Reading Quizizz
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Which of the following cultural traits was NOT introduced into Vietnam from China following
the Han conquest of 111 B.C.?
Chinese examination system and bureaucracy
Chinese agricultural cropping techniques and irrigation technology
Chinese military organization
Chinese reliance on the nuclear family
Which of the following was NOT a difference between the Viet and Chinese cultures prior to
their conquest by the Han emperors?
Language
Village autonomy among the Viets
Higher social status for Viet women
Viet tendency to extended families and clan groups
What was the religious preference of the Korean elite?
Confucianism
Christianity
Buddhism
Islam
During the period of the warring daimyos , what was the factor that led to a revival of Chinese
influence on the cultural level?
Confucianism
The strength of the merchant class
Chinese military technology
Zen Buddhism
Which of the following statements concerning the status of women during the era of the
daimyos is most accurate?
Womenʹ s status among the elite certainly improved during the era of the warlords, as they gained rights to inheritance.
Women often participated in martial training during the era of the warlords, thus improving their social status.
Women were excluded from inheritance and treated as defenseless appendages of their warrior fathers or husbands.
While the status of women among the artisan and merchant classes declined, the status of women among the warrior elite probably improved marginally.
The development of regional power bases in Japan among the warrior elites of the countryside
corresponded to what events in China?
The Mongol conquest of the the southern Song
The period of the Six Dynasties
The rise of the Tang dynasty
The decline of the Tang dynasty
The victory of the Minamoto marks the beginning of what period in Japanese history?
The Taika period
The feudal age
The Onin wars
The Tokugawa Shogunate
By the 11th and 12th centuries, what was the status of the Japanese court aristocracy?
A) They continued to dominate the imperial government and to depend on their alliance with the Buddhist monasteries.
Aristocratic families at the court depended on alliances with the provincial warrior elite in order to exercise any power.
The resuscitation of the emperor led to the destruction of the court aristocracy and the suppression of the regional warrior elite.
The court aristocracy succeeded by the 11th century in setting aside the emperor in favor of regionalized government.
Mounted troops owing loyalty to the military elite were called
bushi .
samurai .
kata .
Yoritomo .
By the middle of the 9th century, what aristocratic family exerted exceptional influence over
imperial affairs at the Japanese court at Heian?
Yoritomo
Taira
Fujiwara
Minamoto
What appears to have been the primary concerns at the imperial Japanese court at Heian?
Military exercise
Science and technology
Social interaction and status
Commerce and trade
Life in the imperial court at Heian was described in what Japanese novel?
Romance of the Rose
Mirror of Lady Murasaki
Tale of Genji
Romance of the Rose
What was the military organization of the Heian government in Japan?
The emperor formalized the creation of a peasant- conscript army on the model of the Chinese.
The emperor accepted the introduction of Chinese troops as the basis for the Japanese army
Formal military organization was abandoned by the emperor as a way to control the bushi.
Local members of the aristocracy were ordered to organize militia forces
What was the immediate impact of the imperial move to Heian?
Buddhism ceased to play a major role in Japanese society.
The scholar- gentry was able to assert itself through the stateʹ s acceptance of a formal examination system modeled on the Chinese bureaucracy.
The aristocracy was restored to counterbalance the power of the Buddhist monasteries and took over most of the positions in the central government.
Shintoism was formally adopted
What group so threatened the security of the Japanese imperial court in the 8th century that
the imperial family moved to Heian?
The aristocracy
Buddhist monks
The peasantry
Nomadic invaders from Manchuria
What religion played a key role in the transmission of Chinese civilization to Japan?
Buddhism
Daoism
Islam
Christianity
What is the name of the nature spirits of Japan?
Hapu
Kami
Hara- kiri
Genji
What regions of Asia were most drawn to Chinese cultural and political models?
The agrarian societies in the East and South
The nomadic societies in the North
Indianized peoples of southeast Asia
The island societies of the Pacific rim
When did Chinese influence on Japan peak?
1st century B.C.E.
3rd century B.C.E.
5th and 6th centuries C.E.
7th and 8th centuries C.E.
What is the indigenous religion of Japan
Hinduism
Buddhism
Shinto
Confucianism
