Deck 19: Japan and Southeast Asia

Question 1

Which's of the following is not one of Japan's main islands?

A)Honshu
B)Kyushu
C)Shitake
D)Hokkaido
E)Shikoku

Answer 1

Shitake

Question 2

What is the meaning of the term "bushido"?

A)A military ruler.
B)The samurai's code of conduct.
C)The concept of good family order.
D)A Shinto god.
E)Parcels of productive land.

Answer 2

The samurai's code of conduct.

Question 3

During the Heian period, the shoguns were the commander-in-chief of the army. What was the role of the emperors?

A)The emperors were all-powerful.
B)The emperors set taxation levels for the government.
C)The emperors were mere figureheads.
D)The emperors set the cultural standards for Japan.
E)The emperors ruled over the Japanese parliament.

Answer 3

The emperors were mere figureheads.

Question 4

According to Shinto legends, what are the kami?

A)Court prostitutes.
B)Buddhist missionaries.
C)Individual's rights to the land.
D)Renegade samurai.
E)Shinto spirits.

Question 5

Concerning the origins of early Japanese history,

A)we know very little.
B)we have a good deal of documentation.
C)archaeology largely confirms the old legends.
D)we know absolutely nothing.
E)recent findings dispute the ancient legends.

Question 6

What was the status of the shogun during Japan's Kamakura period?

A)He was still fairly weak.
B)He had true independence in ruling Japan.
C)He was a ruling vassal for the Chinese.
D)He ran the military but not the civil government.
E)He depended upon the emperor for military advice.

Question 7

The Japanese were the first to produce

A)paper.
B)rice.
C)indigo.
D)epics.
E)novels.

Question 8

The Japanese emperor is descended from which of the following?

A)Jomon
B)Yayoi
C)Yamato
D)Fujiwara
E)Minamoto

Question 9

During the Kamakura and Ashikaga shogunates, Japanese art forms

A)emulated the art of Korea.
B)began to cater to the preferences of the shoguns.
C)became decidedly less like those of China.
D)paid less attention to the warrior class than ever before.
E)gave tremendous respect and honor to the emperor.

Question 10

According to ancient Japanese legends, what are the origins of the Japanese people?

A)They arrived in the islands after a lengthy journey from the south.
B)They descended from the Sun Goddess.
C)They are children of the Moon.
D)They were given the Shinto faith by the Sun Goddess herself.
E)They arrived in Japan during the 16 ^th century B.C.E.

Question 11

What made the Nichiren Buddhist sect different from all other Buddhists?

A)Their strong nationalism.
B)Their appeal to idealism.
C)Their separation from the general population.
D)Their belief in nature worship.
E)Their desire to attain nirvana.

Question 12

The first clan to wrest control from the emperors was the

A)Tokugawa.
B)Fujiwara.
C)Heian.
D)Ashikaga.
E)Kamakura.

Question 13

Who were the authors of The Tale of Genji and The Pillow Book ?

A)Peasants.
B)Chinese.
C)Merchants.
D)Women.
E)Samurai.

Question 14

What country was the source of the strongest cultural influences on the Japanese?

A)China.
B)Korea.
C)Siberia.
D)The Philippines.
E)Taiwan.

Question 15

Modern Japanese religion developed out of interaction between which of the following religions or philosophies?

A)Shinto and Buddhism.
B)Shinto and Confucianism.
C)Shinto and animism.
D)Buddhism and Hinduism.
E)Buddhism and Confucianism.

Question 16

The Ashikaga shogun was noted for

A)becoming much more feudalistic.
B)implementing a long period of peace between himself and his rivals.
C)recognizing the importance of the imperial court system.
D)paying a bit more homage to the emperor.
E)participating in an extended period of warfare between rival nobles and the shogun.

Question 17

The government of the Yamato state would best be described as

A)primitive.
B)Chinese-modeled.
C)regimental.
D)feudal.
E)absolute.

Question 18

The first Japanese state was created by the

A)Jomon.
B)Yayoi.
C)Yamato.
D)Koreans.
E)Chinese.

Question 19

What is the English translation of the term "kamikaze"?

A)"Sun goddess."
B)"Victory or death."
C)"Divine wind."
D)"Right to rule."
E)"Holy motherland."

Question 20

The general model for the Seventeen Point Constitution was

A)Shinto.
B)Korean.
C)Buddhist.
D)Samurai.
E)Chinese.

Question 21

The most influential form of Buddhism in Japan is ____________________, which stresses exercises in ____________________.

Question 22

Parcels of good land known as shoen were

A)often at the center of the struggle for power among rival shoguns.
B)one of the Japanese empire's greatest sources of revenue.
C)rented out to various monasteries over the years for rice cultivation.
D)at the center of a convoluted system of land ownership that came to resemble European feudalism.
E)given to the samurai as rewards for valor in battle, but the samurai were less than successful as feudal lords.

Question 23

The country of ____________________ served as conduit for commerce in goods and ideas between China and Japan.

Question 24

Only about ____________________ percent of Japan's land is suitable for agriculture.

Question 25

What hastened the decline of Southeast Asia's last great Hindu kingdom?

A)A devastating civil war.
B)The arrival of the Portuguese.
C)War with neighboring Kampuchea.
D)The coming of Islam.
E)The growth of the Buddhist faith.

Question 26

The only Southeast Asian country to become a true satellite of China was

A)Vietnam.
B)Laos.
C)Thailand.
D)Cambodia.
E)Kampuchea.

Question 27

Which of these was not achieved by the Thai kingdom during the 13^th to 15^th centuries?

A)Adoption of Hinayana Buddhism.
B)Defeat of the Mongol intruders.
C)A much-copied system of land tenure.
D)Advanced codes of laws.
E)Standardization of language.

Question 28

Most Southeast Asian nations were influence by which of the following?

A)China
B)Japan
C)India
D)Korea
E)Mongols

Question 29

The military government under the shogun, the ____________________, had no real equivalent in medieval Europe.

Question 30

Which statement is correct about the early history of Southeast Asia?

A)The mainland nations normally controlled the islands politically.
B)The islands clung to their Hindu and animist beliefs throughout this period.
C)The Hinayana Buddhists did not support the idea of divine kingship.
D)The Khmer Empire was destroyed by the Chinese.
E)When Portuguese merchants arrived in the region, most of its people were still Hindus.

Question 31

All of the following are true of the history of Burma EXCEPT

A)they initially followed Buddhism and then adopted Hinduism.
B)leaders ruled from their religious shrine of Pagan.
C)their most significant victory against the Mongols was at Pagan.
D)they were the one Southeast Asian nation not influenced by India.
E)All of the options are true of the history of Burma.

Question 32

The only native empire to unify present day Indonesia was which of the following?

A)The Khmers
B)Majapahit.
C)The Thais.
D)The Mongols.
E)None of the options are correct.

Question 33

The ____________________ was originally a military commander who supposedly executed the emperor's wishes.

Question 34

____________________ gave the Japanese the Seventeen Point Constitution in 604.

Question 35

The kings of Sri Vijaya, with their base in Sumatra,

A)attempted to gain much more territory in hopes of expanding their trade network.
B)had to face, from the beginning, strong competition from China.
C)monopolized the north-south trade along the Chinese coasts.
D)conquered Malacca and set up their trading headquarters there.
E)traded spices and foodstuffs to South China's ports in exchange for silk.

Question 36

The "way of the gods" is known as ____________________.

Question 37

The ____________________ were perhaps the civilization most influenced by the Chinese in a relationship marked by their admiration and intense resistance to outside control.

Question 38

Why was the great temple at Angkor Wat constructed?

A)It was a place of worship.
B)It was the funeral monument of the king.
C)It served the colonizing Chinese.
D)It was a copy of the Egyptian pyramids.
E)It was a Mongol holy site.

Question 39

The ____________________ were the high nobility who supported the shoguns.

Question 40

Difficulties with monasteries and Christianity in general led to the decision to move Japan's capital from ____________________ to ____________________.

Question 41

Term for identification: Heian

Question 42

Discuss the history of Japanese social structure.

Question 43

Term for identification: Lady Murasaki

Question 44

Term for identification: kamikaze

Question 45

Term for identification: Chakri Dynasty

Question 46

Term for identification: Nichiren

Question 47

Term for identification: Kami

Question 48

What were some of the unique factors of Japanese society? Compare Japan to China and Korea, considering the samurai honor code as well as the shogunate.

Question 49

Term for identification: shogun

Question 50

Trace the political development of Japan from the Nara Period through the Ashikaga shogunate.

Question 51

Term for identification: Gaja Mada

Question 52

Elaborate on the development of early Japan.

Question 53

Term for identification: Pure Land

Question 54

Term for identification: Silla

Question 55

Discuss the religious issues in Southeast Asian history.

Question 56

Compare and contrast mainland and island Southeast Asia.