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Questions
1. It is safe to say that the Shogun system was not a stable system due to potential threats from daimyos and the possibility of power shift toward the emperor in the diarchy system.
true or false
2. It is safe to say that the Mongolian invasion weakened the Kamakura shogunate even though Kamakura shogun was not colonized by the Mongol Empire.
True or false
3. One of the most vulnerable aspects of the Ashikaga shogunate was its weak financial base unlike clan-based daimyos located throughout the islands that had a solid land base from which they collected tax revenue for their political, economic, and military buildup.
true or false
4. It is safe to say that Japanese merchants during the Ashikaga Shogunate never had a chance to accumulate social/political power due to their lowest social position reinforced by the Confucian ethics; they tried to convert their social status to revered social elite class such as Confucian scholars or samurais.
True or false
5. It is safe to say that Zen Buddhism softened the Bushido's brutal code of conduct and its implementation; the general conceptualization of Buddhists' compassion for others and the idea of the evanescence of human existence established the samurai's and shoguns' literary, poetic, merciful, and ontological understanding of human nature and the natural environment.
True or false
6. It is safe to say that women's power in Japan increased as the warrior culture, bushido, and shogun system were firmly settling in Kamakura and Ashikaga Shogun time; especially the Bodhisattva's regligious role in Japanese superstructure/ideology created a favorable setting for Japanese women's significantly increasing power in Japanese society.
true or false
7. Daimyos in both Kamakura and Ashikaga Shogun time always, severely punished pirates who were hiding in the Inner Sea between Honshu and Shikoku island due to the fact that the pirates endangered official, legitimate trading activities between Japan and China.
True or false
8. Hojo clan's decision to send Go-Daigo to the Oki Islands in exile after defeating him and his supporters rather than executing him was the fear that Hojo clan's execution of Go-Daigo could easily become an excuse for other daimyos to unite and to punish the Hojo clan.
True or false
9. Ashikaga Takauji's action of consecutively betraying his two different superiors demonstrates that the stereotype of "undying samurai's loyalty to his lord/shogun/emperor" could be a misleading and inaccurate concept.
True or false
10. One of the major causes of the "Sengoku Jidai" was the fact that daimyos had to choose between Ashikaga Yoshimi and Ashikaga Yoshihisa for their loyalty/support; the successor was not clearly determined as an unanticipated biological son of Ashikaga Yoshimasa was born.
True or false