Religions
Civil Service
Chinese inventions
Japan
Mixed
100
What religion was brought to Japan through Korea?
Buddhism
100
People who passed the civil service exam could have what kind of jobs?
Government jobs
100
What was first used to shoot off fireworks?
gunpowder
100
What was a samurai's biggest characteristic?
Loyalty
100
What item made Japan more like China?
Seventeen Article
200
Why did Buddhism flourish in China?
Because people needed comfort
200
What did the civil service exam test knowledge of?
Confucian classics
200
What affected trade during the Song dynasty
Paper money
200
The "Tale of Genji" is considered one of the worlds first what?
Novels
200
How did the Tang dynasty weaken the aristocracy?
By having the civil service exam
300
What religion began in Japan and deals with nature?
Shinto
300
Why was the civil service developed
To ensure stability in the government
300
What was traded on over-land trade routes?
Porcelain and silk
300
Feudal Japans class structure from top to bottom
Emperor, shogun, daimyo, samurai, peasants
300
Growth of private estates during the Heian period led to what?
The emergence of the samurai class
400
What religion spread during the Warring states period and thrived during the Sui and Tang dynasties?
Buddhism
400
What is the scholar-official class?
Highly educated civil servants
400
Who really loved the silk clothes traded by the Chinese?
The Romans
400
Who wrote "Tale of Genji" and what class did she belong to?
Murasaki Shikibu and she was a nobel
400
Why did literacy increase during the Song Dynasty?
Because of paper money and the civil service exam
500
When did the Buddhist period end in China
during the Tang Dysnasty
500
Scholar-official class is an example of what
Meritocracy
500
Why were some roads and waterways built during the Tang and Song Dynasties?
To aid bureaucrats
500
Who was named Shogun during the Kamakura era?
Minamoto Yoritomo
500
Who led many naval expeditions in order to establish imperial control over trade? (China)
Zheng He
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