WorksheetsInfluence of Neighboring Cultures on Japan
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 7mins
Which sentence below describes cultural diffusion?
Warships and armies from Japan a 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 cra3 of bronze and iron smithing.
When Korean workers se led in Japan, how did they change the lives of the Japanese?
They set up a new government over the country.
They worked as slaves for middle-class families.
They brought knowledge and skills from the mainland.
They became the customers who bought Japanese cra3s.
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 Tenmu 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.
After they learned about Chinese writing, the Japanese
changed their grammar to be more like Chinese.
began speaking Chinese in everyday conversation.
invented a new set of characters based on objects in Japan
used simplified Chinese characters for sounds in Japanese words.
How can one tell whether a Japanese poem is a tanka?
by counting the syllables in each line
by identifying the social class described
by analyzing the symbols described
by checking whether pairs of lines rhyme
As a result of foreign influence, the Japanese began creating sculptures of
Cobra Kai
emperors.
the Buddha.
samurai.
Which architectural style did Japanese Buddhists adopt for their temples?
