A highly organized body of workers with many levels of authority.
What is a bureaucracy?
100
A military leader operating outside the control of government.
What is a warlord?
100
Put the following into the correct order (oldest to most recent).
1. Han dynasty
2. Song dynasty
3. Tang dynasty
4. Yuan dynasty
What is the Han, Tang, Song, and Yuan dynasties?
100
· high taxes
· forced labor on public projects
· fights between warlords
Led to this.
What is corruption in the Han government?
100
The government of China changed under Mongol leaders; the Mongols relied mostly on these types of people.
Who are family and friends (Other Mongols)?
200
A test given to qualify candidates for positions in the government.
What are Civil Service Examinations?
200
The term for wealthy landowners.
What is Aristocracy?
200
This term best describes how government workers got their jobs during the Song dynasty.
What is Meritocracy?
200
After the fall of the Han dynasty, this happened in China.
What is China broke up into separate kingdoms?
200
This dynasty opened up China to foreign influences at the start of the dynasty, and closed down towards the end of the dynasty.
What is the Ming dynasty?
300
This is rule by officials of proven merit.
What is Meritocracy?
300
This is the term for "heaven" choosing a particular dynasty to rule.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
300
In this dynasty the idea of scholar-officials reached its height.
What is the Song dynasty?
300
This leader appointed foreigners to government officials because he trusted them more than the Chinese.
Who is Kublai Khan?
300
Economic development and many inventions and discoveries happened during this dynasty.
What is the Song dynasty?
400
Early in this dynasty aristocrats fileld government positions; later civil service exams were used to fill positions, though mostly aristocrats passed the tests.
What is the Tang dynasty?
400
This also means to respect ones' elderly.
What is the Filial Piety?
400
During the Tang dynasty, government officials were selected this way.
What is they took civil service exams?
400
According to Confucius, the following relationships have this in common.
· ruler and subject
· father and son
· older sibling and younger sibling
· husband and wife
What is one person is above the other.
400
This was the basis for civil service exams during the Song dynasty.
What is the teachings of neo-Confucianism?
500
The great Mongol leader who conquered China and declared himself emperor.
Who is Kublai Khan?
500
This is the term used to address people who are not from this country.
What is the Foreigner?
500
In this dynasty, trade and business were not encouraged, as merchants were not viewed with much respect.
What is the Ming Dynasty?
500
This was one problem with civil service exams.
What is the exams did not test math and science?
500
This group would best accomplish the task of remembering an emperor ofter he died.
A. aristocrats
B. bureaucrats
C. scholars
D. foreigners