Review Sheet 4	LATE TRADITIONAL JAPAN, KOREA, AND VIETNAM
pp.  465-482

 

1.	Focus Question: What was the nature of the Warring States period and how did it change Japanese government and society? How long did the "Warring States" period last?  What factors led to the break up of the Ashikaga shogunate?  By the end of the sixteenth century, what was the political and military situation in Japan?  In what sense was Japan "feudal" during the Warring States period?  How large a percent of the population belonged to the military class, how did this compare with England of the time?
2.	Focus Question: How did Japan relate to the rest of the world and why did Tokugawa Japan become isolationist?  Why did the Ming emperor open trade to Japan in 1404?   What trade had been carried on with China and why did this activity stop during this period?  Why/How did the Portuguese become important shippers in Southeast Asia?  Approximately how many Christians were in Japan by 1600?  What role did the Jesuits play in christianizing Japan? Why was Christianity initially successful in Japan?  Why did Hideyoshi ban Christianity?  What was the fate of Japanese Christians in Tokugawa Japan?  In what form did Christianity survive?
3.	Focus Question:  How did the Tokugawa rulers stabilize their regime and what were the system's weaknesses? What was the goal of the Tokugawa rulers?  What methods did Hideyoshi use to control and stabilize society?  Why and how did Tokugawa Ieyasu consolidate his power by rearranging the daimyos' domains?  What measures did the Tokugawa use to control their vassals?  What was the policy of seclusion and  its purpose?  What was the state of Japanese economy under the Tokugawa rule?  Why were there a cycle of reforms under the Tokugawa administration?  Which segment of the population paid the greatest share of taxes?  How did the economy of the early Tokugawa period differ from that of the late Tokugawa period?   What was Japan's population in the early 18th century?  Why did the population stabilize?
4.	Focus Question: What were the chief features of Tokugawa culture?  How did Japanese culture change during the Tokugawa period?  What was the most important change in Tokugawa intellectual life?  What dramatic forms replaced No theater?  Which form was the most popular by the beginning of the 18th century, by the middle of the century?  What problems did Confucian thinkers have to overcome in applying Chinese Confucianism to Japan?  What role did Dutch studies play during this period? What subject did the Japanese mainly study from the Dutch?
5.	Focus Question:  How was Korea's development "dependent" upon China, and to what extent was it unique? Why?
	From where did the original Koreans come and to which languages is Korean related?  What "things" did Korea borrow from China?  What role did geography play in establishing Korea as an independent state?  How was its government more like the Japanese?  Why did the Koryo state collapse, and why was the Choson era  so long-lived?  What percentage of the population were slaves during the Choson?  What led to the decline of the Choson government by the seventeenth century?  What was the picture of Korea in mid-seventeenth century?
6.	Focus Question: How was Vietnam's development "dependent" upon China and to what extent was it unique? Why?
	What three movements shaped civilizations of Southeast Asia?  How was Vietnam different from other parts of Southeast Asia?  How long was Vietnam a province of China?  How were the Vietnamese changed by Chinese rule and in what sense were they different from the Chinese?  Why didn't the Vietnamese "transform" Chinese culture like the Koreans and Japanese? What was the relationship between China and Vietnam after 939?  Why did the Vietnamese become a "tributary" of China?  What were the nature of the reforms of Le Thanh Tong (1442-1497) and what impact did they have?  When did the Vietnamese expand into central and southeastern Vietnam?  Whom did they displace?  How did North Vietnam differ from the South?  What were the strengths and weaknesses of the Vietnamese government during the first half of the 19th century?

 
 
 
 

samurai  kabuki No (Noh) haiku bakufu = (literally, "tent government) government of the Shogun  shogun =(shorten form of "Sei i tai shogun" meaning "barbarian-quelling generalissimo") term meaning "generalissimo" daimyo =regional lords of considerable power, possessing large land holdings with many samurai under his control Kamakura and Ashikaga were both periods in which a shogun ruled through a bakufu government bushido - The way of the warrior (warriors code of honor) shugo - local military governors or constables  yangban Champa