Use the Following to Answer Questions

question 12

Multiple Choice

Use the following to answer questions :
-Tokugawa Shogunate

• A)The Chinese dynasty in power from 1368 to 1644; it marked a period of vibrant urban culture.
• B)A highly competitive series of written tests held at the prefecture, province, and capital levels in China to select men to become officials.
• C)The dynasty founded by the Manchus that ruled China from 1644 to 1911.
• D)Units of the Manchu army, composed of soldiers, their families, and slaves.
• E)A type of Japanese theater performed on a bare stage by one or two actors wearing brilliant brocade robes, one actor wearing a mask. The performers conveyed emotions and ideas as much through gestures, stances, and dress as through words.
• F)Regional lords in Japan, many of whom were self-made men.
• G)The Japanese government in Edo founded by Tokugawa Ieyasu. It lasted from 1603 to 1867.
• H)Arrangement in which Japanese lords were required to live in Edo every other year and left their wives and sons there as hostages to the Tokugawa Shogunate.

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