This Tang ruler strengthen the government by adding more officials and empowering the military.
Who is Empress Wu?
Confucianism began to gain popularity and eventually developed into Neo-Confucianism during this dynasty.
What is the Song Dynasty?
The Mongol clans chose this person to unify and lead them in creating the largest land mass empire.
Who is Genghis Khan?
This is a Confucius phrase which means respect and loyalty to the family.
What is filial piety?
Much of what our knowledge about the Yuan dynasty comes from the journals of this Italian merchant and explorer.
Who is Marco Polo?
Despite bringing peace to suffering, a Tang emperor burned texts, took land, and destroyed temples, in an effort to eliminate this.
What was Buddhism?
People had to pass a series of difficult tests to earn this position as an educated member of the government.
What is a scholar-official?
The Mongol Empire was know for being the largest of these.
What is land mass empire?
Because it was too expensive and unworthy occupation, the Ming leaders put an end to this industry.
What is the Shipping industry?
This dynasty helped start the reunification of China.
What was the Sui Dynasty?
Huge amounts of trade goods were carried on this which linked many major cities and rivers in China.
What is the Grand Canal?
According to Confucius, good government depended on this.
What are wise leaders?
What was their abilities?
This dynasty used a civil service exam to establish a new scholar-official class.
What was the Song Dynasty?
The Tang and Song Dynasty invented or discovered gunpowder and this unchangeable method of printing.
What is woodblock printing?
The civil service exam was instituted in China because they wanted government officials to be chosen for this.
What are their abilities or skills?
In 1279, this Mongol leader completed the conquest of China by defeating the southern Song Dynasty to start the Yuan Dynasty.
Who is Kublai Khan?
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Ming Emperors used this strategy to become more powerful than their Song and Tang predecessors.
What is abolishing the offices of many government officials.