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A #history Quiz to revise the introduction to medieval civilisations of the Asia-Pacific for #Year8
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1
In medieval Japan, the emperor was believed to have descended from whom?
The god of the moon
The shogun
The sun goddess
His grandma
2
The Khmer Empire was as its peak when?
The 20th century
The 3rd century
The 13th century
The 14th century
3
The largest city in the world before the 18th Century Industrial Revolution was where?
New York in America
Angkor in the Khmer Empire
London in England
Tokyo in Japan
4
Which of the following religions was not accepted in medieval Japan?
Christianity
Buddhism
Confucianism
Shintoism
5
Angkor Wat (the temple) is now a major tourist attraction in which country?
Mongolia
Vietnam
Japan
Cambodia
6
Which ancient island society was based on migration of people from Korea and China?
The Mongol Empire
Japan
The Khmer Empire
Tasmania
7
What was the warrior class that arose in Japan from the 10th century?
Tokugawa
Shogun
Sushi
Samurai
8
After Yorimoto came to power in 1192, who ruled Japan for 700 years?
Yorimoto
No-one knows
The shogun
Tokugawa
9
The Khmer people built hundreds of what to honour their gods?
Cathedrals
Temples
Markets
Canals
10
Which countries share a border with modern Japan?
North Korea and South Korea
None
Russia and South Korea
China, North Korea and South Korea
11
Who invade Japan in the 13th century and forced the Samurai to improve their warfare?
The Polynesians
The Khmer
The Mongols
The Japanese
12
The Hindu and Buddhist religions arrived in the Khmer Empire from where?
China
Queanbeyan
India
Japan
13
The Mongol Empire was mostly Buddhist, but it also tolerated which other religion(s)?
Christianity, Islam and Confucianism
Islam
Confucianism
No other
14
War, plague and what are believed to have led to the decline of the Khmer Empire?
Invasion by China
Changing belief systems
Changing weather patterns
Failure of the rice crop
15
What system was introduced in Japan in the late 15th century to organise society?
Dictatorship
Democracy
Feudalism
A new religion
16
What made Japan unusual in the Edo period (1600-1867)?
It isolated itself from the rest of the world
It had to import rice
It tried to become more like Western countries
It made Chinese its official language
17
The main primary written source of information about the Khmer Empire was written by whom?
A Khmer king (Jayavarman VII)
A Japanese leader (Tokugawa Ieyasu)
A French archaeologist (Henri Mouhot)
A Chinese ambassador (Zhou Daguan)
18
Who united the Mongol tribes and nomadic people in the 12th-13th centuries?
Genghis Khan
The Black Death
No-one
Jayavarman VII
19
Which empire was built on its ability to grow and trade rice?
The Khmer Empire
Sunwhite Calrose Rice
The Mongol Empire
Japan
20
Which people expanded their civilisation by travelling in double-hulled canoes?
The Polynesians
The Khmer
The Burley Griffins
The Japanese
