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Korea: History and Culture
Quiz by rocky
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Korea is slightly larger than the state of ________________
What does Korea rests on a ___________________
Korea is located in _______
The Korean Peninsula juts out to the _____________________
The Korean Peninsula juts out to the southeast China from ____________________
Korea has seen as a bridge between ________________________
What affected Korea's development?
What did Koreans adopt throughout their long history?
Who is Tangun?
Legend says that Tangun ____________________
Historians believe the first Koreans were _______________
The first Korean nomads came to Korea from _____________
What were Korean nomads organized into?
Where did early Koreans live?
What did early Koreans do?
What did Koreans later use to make items?
What did early Koreans believe in?
What is shamanism?
How did shamans act as?
Many shamans were ______________
What did shamans perform?
Why did shamans perform rituals, songs, dances and chants?
Shmanas were thought to have the ability to ____________
When was the earliest kingdom in Korea founded according to tradition?
What did the Chinese take over in 109 BCE?
What did the Koreans do to the Chinese in the 200s CE?
What are the names of the three kingdoms that emerged in Korea?
Koguryo is located in the ___________
Choose the option with the correct dynasties in order.
Paekche is located in the _____________
Silla is located in the ______________
What is the years from about 300 C.E. to 700 C.E. called?
Where did Chinese culture spread?
What did the people of all three kingdoms use?
What did Korea adopt?
What did Koreans start to do in Chinese translation?
What did Koreans apply to political life?
What did each Korean kingdom base its government on?
Who ruled each Korean kingdom?
Who helped rule a Korean kingdom?
What reached Korea during the Three Kingdoms period?
Which of the following kingdoms was located closer to Japan?
What was the result of Paekche being closer to Japan?
Who settled in Paekche
What did the Japanese introduce to Paeche?
What did Koguryo arts create in 300s?
Who created enormous cave art paintings?
What did a queen in Silla build?
Why did all of the Korean kingdoms fight each other?
Who sided with the Silla kingdom during the 660s?
What did Silla conquer with the help of the Tang dynasty?
What did the rise of Silla bring?
What did Silla kings try to create after they conquered Korea?
What was society made out of during the Silla period?
What did the government do to make improvements to Korea?
What was the result of improving agriculture during the Silla period?
What did Silla kings support?
What did Silla kings do to employ educated people?
What kind of arts did Silla kings encourage?
How tall was the tallest Buddhist temple?
Where was the tallest structure in China located?
What did the Silla use to print Buddhist sacred texts?
The printing of Buddhist sacred texts with wooden blocks was another ____________
What happened after years of conflict with the Silla kingdom?
Why did nobles in the north fight?
Who won over the rivals by 935?
Who became the first Korean ruler to unite the entire Korean Peninsula?
Who founded the Koryo Dynasty?
What does Korea come from?
What did the rulers of the Koryo kingdom follow?
How many years did the Koryo kingdom stay in power for?
The Koryo kingdom established a civil service system based on _____________________
What grew under the leadership of the Koryo Dynasty?
Who developed moveable metal type?
What did the moveable metal type make?
Korean artisans perfected the making of ______________
What is celadon pottery known for?
Who forced the Koryo king and royal family to flee to an island near the present-day city of Seoul in South Korea?
What did the growth of the Mongols force the Koryo Dynasty to do?
Where did the Koryo Dynasty flee to?
Where is Seoul located?
How many years did the royal family struggle until they surrendered?
What did the Koryo dynasty agree to do to remain in power?
What did the Mongols bring to the Korean people?
The Mongols forced thousands of Korean peasants and artisans to build?
Who did the Mongols force to build ships?
Why did the Mongols force Koreans to build ships for them?
What happened to the Koryo when the Mongol power eventually declined?
Who overthrew the Koryo Dynasty?
Who is Yi Song-gye?
Who founded the Yi Dynasty?
How long did the Yi Dynasty last for?
Why is the Yi Dynasty important?
Where did Yi rulers set their capital at?
Hanseong is the _____________
Hanseong is the modern capital of ________________
What did Yi rulers do from Hanseong?
What did the Yi Dynasty still make use of?
What did the Yi rulers name neo-Confucianism as?
Why did Yi rulers open schools?
What did the Yi rulers refuse to support?
What religion declined during the Yi Dynasty?
What did the Koreans keep despite the influences from China?
Who was the greatest Yi kings?
What was Sejong interest in?
What did Yi Dynasty use bronze for?
Who has the oldest record of rainfall?
What was Sejong also involved in the making of?
What is the function of the globe?
What did Sejong and his advisers work to?
What was a great contribution made by Sejong?
What do Chinese and Japanese use?
What is Hangul based on?
What does Hangul use that is similar to the English alphabet?
What is still the standard writing system in present-day Korea?
Who attacked Korea in 1592?
What was the goal of conquering Korea in 1592?
Who helped stopped the Japanese attack on Korea on land?
What did the Koreans develop in the war at sea?
What did a Korean admiral named Yi Sun-shin and team of workers produce before fighting the Japanese?
The ships produced by Yi Sun-shin were known as _________________
Who produced turtle ships?
The plates that covered the entire top of the ship looked like _____________
Where did turtle ships have cannons?
Why were there spikes on the turtle ships?
The turtle ships have ___________
Why did a general use turtle ships?
What happened to the Koreans despite winning against the Japanese?
Fighting against the Japanese had destroyed ____________________
What did the Japanese do to Korean farmers and workers?
Who did the Japanese kill or kidnap?
Who was Korea attacked by in the early 1600s?
China in the early 1600s was ruled by the __________________
What happened when China was ruled by the Manchus?
What did the Yi dynasty do to China's Manchu rulers?
Korea's relations with its powerful neighbor remained _______________