EAST ASIA
Clue: Name the fast-ripening rice from Vietnam that helped Song China’s population grow.
Champa rice
What test could someone take to have social mobility?
Civil service exam
What man-made structure went North and South and helped China become powerful economically and militarily?
The Grand Canal
The group that was the elite social class in imperial China. They combined land ownership with a deep education in Confucianism to run the government bureaucracy.
scholar-gentry
One continuity in one change from the Song Dynasty on how they governed
Continuities: Emperor at the center of a centralized state, Mandate of Heaven, Civil Service Exams
Changes: Neo-Confucianism, Buddhism being centralized by government