Civil service Exams
In Imperial China, what was the main purpose of the civil service exams?
What is a select government officials based on merit rather than family background.
n what country did the Song Dynasty rule from 960 to 1279 CE?
What is China?
In what country did the Tang Dynasty rule from 618 to 907 CE?
What is China?
Which foreign group founded the Yuan Dynasty and ruled over China in the 1200s and 1300s?
Who are the Mongols?
What is the name for China’s long period of rule by powerful families, like the Han, Tang, and Song?
What are dynasties?
Which Chinese philosophy most strongly influenced the content of the civil service exams?
What is Confucianism.
The Song Dynasty is famous for inventing what type of money, printed on paper instead of metal coins?
What is paper money?
Which city, the capital of the Tang Dynasty, became one of the largest and most cosmopolitan cities in the world?
What is Changan?
What famous Mongol leader’s grandson, Kublai Khan, completed the conquest of China and started the Yuan Dynasty?
Who is Genghis Khan?
What belief said that Heaven gave Chinese rulers the right to rule, and could take it away if they were unjust?
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
Who could, in theory, take the civil service exams in Imperial China?
What is Any educated male, regardless of social class, in theory (though wealthier families had an advantage).
What important tool for finding direction at sea was perfected and widely used during the Song Dynasty?
What is the magnetic compass?
What road-based trade network grew even more important during the Tang Dynasty, connecting China to the Middle East and Europe?
What is the Silk Road?
What is the name of the Italian traveler who visited the Yuan court and later wrote about his journeys in China?
Who is Marco Polo?
What is the name of the system where government officials in Imperial China were chosen by difficult written exams?
What is the civil service exam system?
What was one major way the Chinese government tried to prevent cheating on the civil service exams?
What is Candidates took the exams in small locked cells and were carefully watched by exam officials.
During the Song Dynasty, what class of educated people, chosen by exams, played a major role in running the government?
Who are scholar-officials (or scholar-gentry)?
What system did the Tang Dynasty improve that gave land to peasants based on family size, helping the government collect taxes more fairly?
What is the equal-field system?
During the Yuan Dynasty, where did Kublai Khan move the capital of China?
What is Beijing? (then called Khanbaliq or Dadu)
What was the name of the class of educated men who passed the exams and helped run the government in Imperial China?
Who are scholar-officials (or scholar-gentry)?
How did the civil service exam system help create a more stable government in Imperial China?
It created a professional bureaucracy of trained scholar-officials who were loyal to the state and shared common Confucian values, which helped keep the government stable over many dynasties
Name one way the Song Dynasty improved farming that helped China’s population grow.
What is using fast-ripening rice (like Champa rice), better irrigation, or new farming tools to increase food production?
Name one way the Tang Dynasty supported culture and learning in China.
What is supporting poetry and art, expanding the civil service exams, or building schools/academies to train scholars?
Name one way the Mongol/Yuan rulers helped increase contact between China and other parts of the world.
What is protecting trade along the Silk Road, encouraging foreign merchants and travelers, or creating a vast empire that connected China to Europe and the Middle East?
Name one way trade with other regions (like along the Silk Road) helped Imperial China.
What is bringing in new ideas and religions, increasing wealth through trade of silk/porcelain, or spreading Chinese inventions to other parts of the world?