Class Quiz - SPRING

Question 1

What does Nippon mean in Japanese?

Answer 1

Land of the Rising Sun

Question 2

What is NOT one of the four largest Japanese islands?

Hokkaido

Honda

Honshu

Kyushu

Answer 2

Honda

Question 3

ABout how many miles of water separate Japan and Korea?

Answer 3

100 miles

Question 4

What is the name for the group of people who live on the northern Japanese islands and who don’t resemble other East Asians?

Answer 4

Ainu

Question 5

What does Shinto mean in Japanese?

Answer 5

way of the kami

Question 6

Amaterasu is the goddes of what?

Answer 6

the sun

Question 7

What group first introduced Chinese writing to Japan?

Answer 7

Koreans

Question 8

What religion did Prince Shotoku support in Japan?

Answer 8

Buddhism

Question 9

The Heian period is named for the Japanese capital, that today goes by what name?

Answer 9

Kyoto

Question 10

Which Chinese dynasty defeated and colonized parts of Korea in 108 BCE?

Answer 10

Han

Question 11

What was NOT a Korean technological innovation?

metal movable type

celadon pottery

woodblock printing

all of the above were NOT

Answer 11

woodblock printing

Question 12

What does samurai mean in Japanese?

Answer 12

Those who serve

Question 13

What would be a scenario that would call for seppuku among samurai?

Answer 13

Failing to protect the samurais’ lord in battle

Question 14

What was NOT something samurai women were able to do?

participate in business

own property

train for combat

vote for the emperor

Answer 14

Vote for the emperor

Question 15

What was the name for the storms that helped the Japanese defeat the Mongols?

Answer 15

Kamikaze

Question 16

What is NOT a major geographic zone in India?

Answer 16

Gobi Desert

Question 17

In which region of India did civilization first begin?

Answer 17

Northern Plains

Question 18

What is NOT a proposed explanation for how the Indus Valley Civilization fell?

Answer 18

Invasion by Alexander the Great

Question 19

Many historians believe that the Aryans who took control of most of India around 2000 BC were related to Europeans based on what type of evidence?

Answer 19

Linguistics

Question 20

Which deity of Hinduism could be considered the one god, as in monotheism?

Answer 20

Brahman

Question 21

Which sacred text in Hinduism is a series of philosophical reflections on the Vedas?

Answer 21

Upanishads

Question 22

What is one of the most important pilgrimage sites for Hindus?

Answer 22

Ganges River

Question 23

What is a good example of ahimsa?

Answer 23

Becoming a vegetarian

Question 24

The establishment of the Mauryan Empire was said to be inspired by whom?

Answer 24

Alexander the Great

Question 25

What led Ashoka to convert to Buddhism?

Answer 25

Being appaled lat the level of violence in his conquest of eastern India

Question 26

During the Gupta Empire, which religion gained most in popularity?

Answer 26

Hinduism

Question 27

What was NOT a good from India traded along the Silk Roads?

Answer 27

Wine

Question 28

The Laws of Manu best exemplify what concept in history?

Answer 28

Patriarchy

Question 29

A stupa was what type of structure during the Gupta Empire?

Answer 29

Temple

Question 30

In what language were works from the Gupta Empire written?

Answer 30

Sanskrit