Korea

question 55

Multiple Choice

Korea

• A) wanted to play a significant and public role in world affairs.
• B) developed the most equitable and open civil service system in Asia to avoid having a government bureaucracy drawn from a single class.
• C) developed a phonetic alphabet for writing the spoken Korean language in the 1400s.
• D) was much more heavily urbanized than that of Japan by 1750.
• E) invaded Japan twice during the seventeenth century.

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