JEOPARDYSpread of Chinese Civilization

危及

中國文明的傳播

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CATEGORIESJapan: The Imperial

Age

Era of Warrior Dominance

The Making of Vietnam

Important People

Important Events

Vocabulary

What were the Taika, Nara, and Heian periods?

In these three periods Japanese borrowing from China, though selective,

peaked.

What were imports from China?

By the late 600s CE the Japanese court at Nara

was awash in these.

What were Confucian ways?

The Japanese aristocracy struggled to master

these.

What was polite behavior?

Men and women of the Japanese aristocratic classes followed strict

codes of this.

What were the samurai?

The rise of these frustrated all hopes of

creating a free peasantry, and in fact

reduced Japanese peasants to the role of

serfs.

What is declined?

As the power of the provincial lords grew, that of the imperial

household and aristocracy did this.

What were the Gempei Wars?

Wars waged for five years from 1180 on Honshu,

between Taira and Minamoto families that

resulted in the destruction of the Taira.

What was sepukku?

This was ritual suicide or disembowelment in

Japan that was commonly known as hara-kiri in the West.

Who were shoguns?

The military leaders of the bakufu, military

governments in Japan.

What was the Ashikaga Shogunate?

The replacement of the Kamakura regime in Japan that ruled from

1336 to 1573 and destroyed the rival Yoshino center of imperial authority.

What was the preconquest culture?

This culture of the Vietnamese gave them a

strong sense of themselves as a distinct people with a common

heritage that they did not want to see overwhelmed by an expanding China.

What was Nam Viet?

At the end of the 2nd century BCE the Han dynasty

conquered this kingdom, thus beginning an effort to

absorb the Vietnamese people into Chinese

civilization.

What is freedom and influence?

Vietnamese women have historically had more of this than their Chinese

counterparts.

What was disdain for local customs?

The Chinese often found it difficult to conceal this in what they considered

a backwards and unhealthy outpost of the

empire.

DAILY DOUBLE!

Who were the Chams and Khmers?

The Chinese legacy gave the Vietnamese great

advantages in the struggles with these

adversaries.

Who was Ashikaga Takuaji?

A member of the Minamoto family that

overthrew the Kamakura regime and established the Ashikaga Shogunate

from 1336-1573.

Who were the Trung sisters?

Leaders of one of the frequent peasant

rebellions in Vietnam against Chinese rule

whose revolt broke out in 39 CE.

Who was Kammu?

The Japanese emperor who established a new capital at Heian (Kyoto)

in 794.

Who was Yoritomo?

The leader of the victorious Minamoto who gravely

weakened the Kamakura regime because of his obsessive fear of being

overthrown by members of his own family.

Who was Lady Murasaki?

The author of The Tale of Genji, the first novel in

any language.

What were the Taika reforms?

In 646 the Japanese emperor and his advisors

introduced these, aimed at completely revamping the

imperial administration along Chinese lines.

What were Buddhist monks?

Due to influence from the mainland, Japanese

peasants began to turn to these for cures when

they were sick.

What were rowdy monks?

A century after the Taika reforms were introduced, the Buddhist monks had

grown so bold and powerful that the court and aristocracy lived in

fear of street demonstrations by these.

What were large numbers of peasants armed with pikes?

When the pattern of warfare in Japan

changed, these became a critical component of

daimyo armies.

What was the Tang empire?

The Silla rulers consciously strove to

turn their kingdom into a miniature version of this.

What was Sinification?

The extensive adaptation of Chinese culture in

other regions, typically Korea and Japan.

What was Paekche?

An independent Korean kingdom in the southeast

of the peninsula that defeated the rival Silla

kingdom and its chinese Tang allies in the 7th

century.

Who were Chams?

Internalized rivals of the Vietnamese that were

driven into the highlands by the successful

Vietnamese drive to the south.

What were daimyos?

Warlord rulers of 300 small states following civil war

and disruption of Ashikaga Shogunate whose holdings consolidated into unified and bounded mini-states.

DAILY DOUBLE!

What were bushi?

Regional warrior leaders in Japan that ruled small

kingdoms from fortresses that administered the law, supervised public works projects, and collected

revenues.