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Bushi were: warrior leaders in the tenth century who controlled provincial areas of Japan from small fortresses
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Following the assertion of vietnamese independence from China in the 10th century, what aspects of chinese culture were retained by the vietnamese rulers: chinese admin system based on confucian exam system
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how did warfare change under the daimyos?: scientific warfare based on spying, timely assaults, wise command and organization of massive armies replaced heroic combat
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Immidiate impact of move to Heian?: Aristocracy restored to counterbalance Buddhism power and took over central government positions
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Impact of rise of samari on peasantry?: they were reduced to serfdom
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In 838 the Japanese: ceased to send official embassies to the Chinese emperor.
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In what year were the Taika reforms enacted in Japan?: 646 AD
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Japan began borrowing heavily from China's culture: In the 5th and 6th centuries
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Korean bureaucratic under Chinese influence....?: Korea established exam system but admission was based on birth not test scores
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Not true about the rise of a provincial military elite during the tenth century in Japan: The rise of the provincial elite corresponded to the recovery of the imperial government and its overthrow of the aristocracy of the court.
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One of the major reasons for the Chinese failure to assimilate the Vietnamese was: the lack of impact of Chinese cultural imports on the Vietnamese peasantry.
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Political result of the wars that destroyed the Ashikaga Shogunate: division of Japan into 300 little states
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Political result of wars that destoryed the Ashikoga Shogunate?: japan divided into 300 little states
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Primary concern at the imperial court at Heian?: social conventions and original verse
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Relationship between Ashikaga shogunate and emperor?: Ashikaga shoguns fought the emperor at Kyoto who refused to recognize their authority and drove him to the mountain town of Yoshino while setting up a puppet empire
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Relationship of imperial court to provincial military elite?: in absense of imperial military force law and order broke down leading emperor and official to hire lords
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Samurai were: mounted troops who served the provincial military elite.
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Status of Japan court aristocracy: aristocratic families at the court of depend on alliances with the provincial warrior elite in order to excersize any power
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The development of regional power bases in Japan among the warrior elites of the countryside corresponded to what events in china: decline of tang
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The end of the Gempei wars signaled the beginning of: the feudal age
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The Gempei wars: settled the power struggle between the Taira and Minamoto families.
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The Korean bureaucracy: admitted members almost exclusively by birth rather than test scores.
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the ninth century, what Japanese family dominated the imperial court?: Fujiwara
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The rise of the samurai in provincial Japanese society: reduced peasants to the status of serfs bound to the land they worked.
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The Tale of Genji described: the life at the imperial court at Heian
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What group so threatened the security of the Japanese imperial court in the eighth century that the imperial family moved to Heian?: Scholar gentry
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What is true about nature of warfare among the Bushi?: Battles hinged on man-to-man duels of great champions typical of the heroic stage of warfare.
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What kingdom was successful in establishing a unified and independent government in Korea: silla
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What regions of Asia were most drawn to Chinese cultural and political models?: agrarian societies on east and south
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What religion played a key role in the transmission of Chinese civilization to Japan?: Buddhism
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What was the central purpose of the Taika reforms in Japan?: remake Japanese monarch into an absolutist Chinese-style emperor
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When the emperor moved his government from Nara to Heian,: the aristocracy took over most of the positions in the central government
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Which of the following was not a result of the growth of power of the provincial warrior elite?: The Confucian precept that warriors should dominate the social and political world was strengthened.
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Women status during the daimyo era?: while daighters of the bushi often got some martial training, under the daimyos women were excluded from inheritance and treated as defenseless appendages of their warrior fathers or husbands
