1. Which Regions in Asia Were Drawn to Chinese Cultural and Political Models?

Chapter 13 Questions 1. Which regions in Asia were drawn to Chinese cultural and political models? 2. Who were the Asian satellites of Chinese civilization? 3. When did Japan borrow heavily from Chinese culture? 4. Know the term kami. 5. Why did Buddhism play a key role in the transmission of Chinese civilization to Japan? 6. Which periods was Chinese cultural influence significant? 7. What were the Taika reforms? 8. What was the purpose of Taika reforms? 9. What group threatened the imperial court in the 8th century? 10. What was the impact of the imperial move to Heian? 11. Describe the military organization of the Heian government in Japan? 12. What was the Tale of Genji? 13. Describe the primary concerns at the imperial Japanese court at Heian? 14. What did the Fujiwara family do in the middle of the 9th century? 15. Know the term bushi. 16. Describe the rise of provincial military elite during the 10th century. 17. Know the term samurai. 18. Describe the relationship of the imperial court to the provincial military elite. 19. Describe the nature of warfare among the bushi. 20. Describe the impact of the rise of the samurai on the peasantry. 21. Know the status of the Japanese court aristocracy by the 11th and 12th centuries 22. What were the Gempei Wars? 23. What lead to the creation of the Bakufu in 1185? 24. What victory marks the beginning of the feudal age in Japanese history? 25. Describe the results of the growth of power of the provincial warrior elite? 26. What events in Japan corresponded to the decline of the Tang dynasty in China? 27. What happened in 838? 28. Know the term shogun. 29. What did the Hojo family do? 30. What was the nature of the Japanese government following the death of Yoritomo? 31. What did the Ashikaga Shogunate do? 32. Describe the relationship between the Ashikaga Shogunate and the emperor. 33. What faction was destroyed by a full scale civil war that raged from 1467 – 1477? 34. Describe the political result of the wars that destroyed the Ashikaga Shogunate. 35. How did warfare change under the daimyos? 36. Describe the society and economy of the warlord era in Japanese History. 37. Describe the status of women during the era of the daimyos. 38. What did Zen Buddhism do during the period of the warring daimyos? 39. Describe the developments during the era of the daimyos that laid a lasting foundation for lasting political unification in Japan. 40. What year did the Han emperors conquer the first Korean kingdom of Choson? 41. What was the Silla kingdom? 42. Give the correct chronological sequence for the Korean dynasties. 43. Describe the Korean bureaucracy under the influence of China. 44. What was the religious preference of the Korean elite? 45. Describe the nature of Korean society. 46. Contrast the Viet and Chinese cultures prior to the Han conquest. 47. Describe the Chinese cultural traits that were introduced into Vietnam after the Han conquest of 111 BCE. 48. Describe the factors that led to the failure of the Chinese to assimilate the Vietnamese. 49. What aspects of Chinese culture were retained by the Vietnamese rulers? 50. Describe the political result of the Vietnamese drive to conquer the regions south of the Red River basin.