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What important factor helped China reunite under a strong leader like
Tang Taizong?
Everyone in China spoke the same language.
The fragmented states had maintained growth, education, and advances in technology.
The leaders in the separate areas were weakened by constant warring with each other.
Northern China hoped to gain security from being aligned with relatively peaceful southern China.
3.The leaders in the separate areas were weakened by constant warring with each other.
5. Which advancement helped increase food production during the Song dynasty?
A) The invention of irrigation canals
B) The use of new fast-growing rice from Southeast Asia
C) The creation of terraced farming in deserts
D) The end of peasant labor taxes
B) The use of new fast-growing rice from Southeast Asia
1. What invention during the Tang and Song dynasties had the greatest impact on communication?
A) Gunpowder
B) Block printing
C) Magnetic compass
D) Porcelain
B) Block printing
3. Which geographic feature most influenced China’s trade during the Tang and Song periods?
A) The Sahara Desert
B) The Great Wall
C) The Silk Roads and sea routes
D) The Himalayan Mountains
C) The Silk Roads and sea routes
2. What impact did the invention of gunpowder have on China and the world?
A) It was used mainly for art and decoration.
B) It helped improve farming methods.
C) It led to the creation of new weapons and changed warfare.
D) It was only used in fireworks and celebrations.
C) It led to the creation of new weapons and changed warfare.
4. Which of the following statements BEST represents an example of
Daoism’s ideas?
Disputes should be settled by village leaders and a council of elders.
Social order should be based on duty, rank, and proper behavior.
Pottery has no value unless it is beautiful and delicate.
4.Painters should portray a harmonious relationship between heaven and earth.
4. Painters should portray a harmonious relationship between heaven
and earth.
8.The civil service examination system was based on the teachings of:
A) Daoism
B) Legalism
C) Confucianism
D) Buddhism
C) Confucianism
3. How did the Song dynasty survive despite military setbacks?
They paid tribute taxes to the forces that had defeated them.
They broke apart the countries they controlled into smaller kingdoms that would be easier to defend.
They encouraged innovation in technology and agriculture and supported an extensive trading system.
They adjusted their social structure, making it easier for lower-class peasants to move up in society to become gentry.
3.They encouraged innovation in technology and agriculture and supported an extensive trading system.
10. Gunpowder and movable type printing were inventions of which dynasty?
A) Han
B) Tang
C) Song
D) Ming
C) Song
4. What type of artwork became especially popular during the Song dynasty?
A) Sculptures of emperors
B) Realistic portraits of leaders
C) Landscape paintings that reflected harmony with nature
D) Military murals showing victories
C) Landscape paintings that reflected harmony with nature
9. What was one economic achievement of the Song Dynasty?
A) The use of paper currency
B) The creation of gunpowder
C) The introduction of Confucian exams
D) The construction of the Great Wall
A) The use of paper currency
6. What was one major achievement of the Tang Dynasty?
A) Building the Great Wall
B) Creating the first paper money
C) Developing a strong central government and expanding the empire
D) Ending Confucian influence
C) Developing a strong central government and expanding the empire
5. What inference can you draw from the social structure of Tang and Song society?
The Chinese lived in constant fear of outside invasions.
The Chinese placed a high value on maintaining a well-ordered
social structure.
The Chinese valued education above everything.
The Chinese were willing to make social mobility possible, even at the cost of social stability.
2. The Chinese placed a high value on maintaining a well-ordered
social structure.
7.Which invention during the Tang and Song Dynasties had the greatest impact on navigation?
A) Paper
B) Compass
C) Silk
D) Printing press
B) Compass
. Which of the following helped the rulers of the Tang dynasty reunify China?
They strengthened the government bureaucracy and reformed the
civil service.
They opened up higher education to all talented people, including women.
They raised taxes in order to help the military fight off foreign invaders.
They seized land from peasants and gave it to powerful local rulers.
A They strengthened the government bureaucracy and reformed the
civil service.