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AP World History Ch 14 Reading Study Guide #2 P. 319-329

Notecards:

·  Silla

·  Sinification

·  Khmers

·  Trung Sisters

1.  As you read complete this chart with ESSAY SPECIFIC ITEMS

Korea / Southeast Asia: Vietnam
What was life like before the Chinese showed up?(Social, economic, political divisions, Kingdoms)
How were they viewed by the Chinese?
What were the patterns of Chinese conquest in the region?
Korea / Southeast Asia: Vietnam
Describe the process of Sinification: What things did the region adopt from China
Difficulties presented to China in attempting to control the region
Resistance
Collapse

1.  What is sinification? Pg. 319-320

2.  Why were (most) Chinese Emperors content to allow Korea to have semi-independent status? Pg. 320

3.  How did the Koreans do honor and pay tribute to the Chinese Emperors? Pg. 320

4.  In what ways did the Silla rulers of Korea imitate their dominant Chinese neighbors? Pg. 320-321

5.  How did the Korean ruling classes dominate the peasantry or "near slaves"? Pg. 321-322

6.  What does “Nam Viet” mean? Pg. 322-323

7.  What items were traded between the Chinese and the Viets? Pg. 323

8.  How did the Viets show they were not like the Chinese? Pg. 323

9.  How did the Viets respond to outside domination from the Chinese? Pg. 323-324

10.  Where were the Khmers based? Pg. 323

(Read Visualizing the Past: What their Portraits Tell Us, Gatekeeper Elites & the Persistence of Civilizations, Pg. 326-327)

11.  What do the dress, poses, and settings of each of these portraits tell us? (Article Pg. 326-327)

12.  Are there modern equivalents to ‘gate-keeper’ elites in the world today? (Article Pg. 326-327)

13.  Describe the Vietnamese move South. (Who did they interact with? What effect did this have on the viets?) Pg. 327

14.  When did the Nguyen family assert its dominance in the south? Pg. 328-329

(Read Document: Literature as a Mirror of the Exchanges Between Civilized Centers, Pg. 328)

15.  Identify passages with Chinese influence. (Article Pg. 328)

16.  Identify passages that convey Buddhist ideas. (Article Pg. 328)

17.  Why do you think Chinese ways were the standard by which all peoples were judged in East Asia? Pg. 329

18.  Critical thinking: Do you think there are any lessons here for foreign attempts at dominating Vietnam? Such as French Colonial Rule (1800s-1950s) and attempted American political dominance (1950s-1970s)

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