Author Question: The so-called seventeen-article constitution involved a. a decentralization of Japanese ... (Read 43 times)

penza · **on:** Jul 4, 2018

The so-called seventeen-article constitution involved

a. a decentralization of Japanese government by Shotoku Taishi.
b. an effort to enable the Japanese to conquer the Tang Dynasty of China.
c. the formal establishment of feudalism.
d. a last-ditch effort to keep peasants under Buddhist control.
e. a centralized government under a supreme ruler and a merit system.

Question 2

In reaction to the Tang infiltration into the Korean Peninsula,

a. relations between the Korean kingdoms and the Japanese rulers became estranged.
b. Japanese governmental power became more decentralized for a time.
c. Shotoku Taishi made contacts with Tang rulers in order to adopt Chinese governing methods.
d. Japan declared war upon Korea.
e. Japan declared war upon Tang China.