Chapter 9

Question 0

Chinese migration southward too what Rivervalley in the first millennium of the common era brought a massive environmental transformation to China

Answer 0

Yangzi

Question 1

The collapse of what dynasty around 220 CE lead to more than 300 years of political fragmentation

Answer 1

Han

Question 2

which dynasty reunified China in 589 CE

Answer 2

Sui

Question 3

China experienced a golden age between 618 and 1279 during the Tang and ____ dynasty, when it was the richest, most populous and most highly commercialized country in the world

Answer 3

Song

Question 4

beginning in the 10th or 11th century CE what Chinese practice spread the belief that enhanced female beauty

Answer 4

foot binding

Question 5

Chinese diplomatic interaction with foreigners which required other states to except Chinese superiority at least ritually, was known as what system

Answer 5

tribute

Question 6

The earliest nomadic confederacies with my Chinese government had to deal with equal terms was with the________

Answer 6

Xiongnu

Question 7

which dynasty of the seventh century CE was the first to bring some political unity to the Korean Peninsula

Answer 7

Silla

Question 8

in the 15th century CE Korea developed its own phonetic alphabet known as_____

Answer 8

Hangul

Question 9

China ruled ___ for more than 1000 years, between one 111 B.C.E. and 939 CE

Answer 9

Vietnam

Question 10

which Chinese aristocrat was the first important leader in the effort to transform Japan into a centralized state modeled on China

Answer 10

Shotoku Taishi

Question 11

The 17 article constitution declared what place to be a state in the Chinese style and encouraged both Confucianism and Buddhism

Answer 11

Japan

Question 12

The Chinese capital ____ was model for the Kumsong in Korea and Nora and heian in Japan

Answer 12

Chang’an

Question 13

what was the name of the military warrior class celebrated in Japanese culture

Answer 13

samurai

Question 14

in Japan, sacred spirits associated with human ancestors or natural phenomena are known as_____

Answer 14

kami

Question 15

movable type printing was first invented in

Answer 15

China

Question 16

China learned about drought resistant and fast ripening strains of rice from where enabling it to support a rapidly growing population

Answer 16

Vietnam

Question 17

until the 20th century, what was the only large-scale cultural borrowing in the history of China?

Answer 17

buddhism

Question 18

The Sui emperor ____ gave strong state support the Buddhism in the last two decades of the sixth century

Answer 18

Wendi

Question 19

The foreign born general______Major rebellion against the Tang Dynasty in the eighth century helped turn Chinese elites against foreigners in their midst

Answer 19

An Lushan

Question 20

which of the following was not a development during the period of China political fragmentation

Answer 20

China enjoyed it’s most rapid economic development before 1400 CE

Question 21

this dynasty reunified China in the late sixth century CE E solidifying that unity by greatly extending the countries canals

Answer 21

Sui

Question 22

which of the following is among the reasons why tang and song dynasties in China is regarded as a golden age

Answer 22

major artistic literary and scholarly advances including creation of Neo Confucianism

Question 23

which of the following does not contribute to China’s economic revolution during tang and song dynasties

Answer 23

The importance of large numbers of slaves to work in agriculture and industry

Question 24

which of the following is a reason why women are more restricted under song Dynasty then Tang

Answer 24

revival of Confucianism, which emphasizes patriarchal control over women

Question 25

which of the following statements about women is true of the song Dynasty China

Answer 25

Women gained property rights, including the ability to inherit property from their families

Question 26

which of the following was not a corollary of Chinese believe that China represented civilization and was at the center of the world

Answer 26

The belief that the Chinese foreign inherently superior race and that the barbarians could never become civilized

Question 27

which of the following statements about Chinese tribute system is true

Answer 27

The Chinese government often gave other states gifts that were in fact worth more than the tribute that those states paid to China

Question 28

which of the following entities did the Chinese occasionally have to recognize as a political equal

Answer 28

xiongnu

Question 29

what do The Xiongnu, Uighurs& Jurchen have in common?

Answer 29

all four established nomadic empires north of China, and were able to get a large amounts of valuable goods from China thinly disguised as protection money that kept them from attacking China

Question 30

which of the following was not a result of Chinese interaction with Northern nomads during the Tang Dynasty

Answer 30

The Chinese converted large numbers of northern nomads to Chinese cultural ways

Question 31

confucianism have the most negative impact on women in which of the following states

Answer 31

Korea

Question 32

which of the following statements best describes Korea’s a relationship with China in the premodern period

Answer 32

The Korean elite adopted many elements of Chinese culture, importing many Chinese goods and customs well sending thousands of students to China

Question 33

The cultural heartland of _____ was a part of the Chinese state for more than 1000 years, encouraging both the adoption of Chinese culture and periodic rebellions

Answer 33

Vietnam

Question 34

which of the following statements is true of Korea Vietnam and Japan

Answer 34

Korea, Vietnam, and Japan all adopted numerous elements of Chinese culture

Question 35

which of the following elements of Japanese government was not derived from China

Answer 35

The belief that the Emperor is descended from the sun goddess, Amaterasu

Question 36

pre-modern Japan never created an effective centralized and bureaucratic state comparable to that of China. Which of the following is an excepted reason for the failure?

Answer 36

competing aristocratic families had real political power, providing a centrifugal will pull against centralization

Question 37

all but which of the following is a technique or technology that China exported to other regions of Eurasia

Answer 37

production of sugar from sugarcane

Question 38

which of the following was not a reason for the spread of Buddhism in China during the period 300 to 800 CE

Answer 38

buddhism was forcibly imposed on the population by number of rulers who sponsored the new religion

Question 39

buddhism lost state support in China for all but which of the following reasons

Answer 39

Buddhists led the failed An Lushan rebellion of 755 to 763 discrediting their religion in the eyes of the government administrators