China
What was a major invention that happened in China during the ninth century during the Song Dynasty?
Gun powder
What social system was prevalent in Japan during the ninth century?
Feudalism
Korea was a what to China?
a tributary to China
Sinification or the acceptance of Chinese values was widely accepted in Vietnam?
No
Family clans had most of the power.
What was the Sui Dynasty's most notable accomplishment?
The Grand Canal
Unlike the head of the Chinese government, the Japanese governments head is what?
Just a figurehead.
What other Asia kingdom was Korea very similar to?
China
True or False?
Vietnamese women enjoyed great freedom in their lives.
True
When was paper invented?
the second century
What did An Lushan do in the eight century China?
Orchestrated a rebellion to overthrow the Tang
Samurai fought for feudal lords in exchange for what?
Food, shelter, money, clothes, basic necessities.
Was there a merit based system to enter the bureacracy?
No.
What did the Vietnamese do to the Chinese inhabitants after the Tang Dynasty fell?
Drove them out of the country forcefully.
The Vietnamese used which military tactic to drive the Chinese out of their lands?
guerilla warfare.
What are the three main religions in China during the Song Dynasty's rule?
Taoism, Confucianism, and Buddhism
What was the Taika Reforms?
Was a document to give the newly centralized government more power and take it away from nobility
How was Korean aristocracy different from Chinese aristocracy?
They held more power and had more say in daily matters.
What did the scholar-officials of Vietnam hold their allegiance in?
the peasant class especially those villages they came from.
What does landscape mean in Chinese?
What was considered the lowest class in China?
The merchant class
What is the Tale of Genii widely known as?
The worlds first novel.
What ritual action did the Korean head of state preform to the Chinese emperor and empress when meeting them?
the kowtow.
True or false?
The Vietnamese had a written language based on Chinese and a spoken language completely separate from Chinese.
True
Which area practiced polygyny in East Asia?
Vietnam