VOCABULARY
The form of money used in a country.
What is currency?
The largest continent on Earth that China is located on.
What is Asia?
The form of government that has an emperor in charge.
What is imperial?
Candidates took these long tests to qualify for a government job.
What is the civil service examination?
People in medieval China wanted government jobs for this reason.
What is being excused from taxes? OR What is being excused from military service?
A line of rulers descended from one family.
What is a dynasty?
What is the Gobi Desert? OR What is the Taklimakan Desert?
The first ruler of China to claim the title of "emperor"
Who is Qin Shi Huangdi OR Who is Prince Zheng?
Those who were given government jobs only after passing a civil service examination to prove they were qualified.
What are scholar-officials?
This new teaching blended the teachings of Confucius with elements of Buddhism and Daoism.
What is neo-Confucianism?
A highly complex body of workers with many levels of authority.
What is a bureaucracy?
A river in imperial China.
What is the Huang He (Yellow) River? OR What is the Chang Jiang (Yangtze) River?
The Han dynasty fell when the people thought it lost this.
What is the Mandate of Heaven?
The group of people that the Tang dynasty filled most high-level jobs with.
Who are aristocrats?
The basis of study for all civil service exams.
What are the Four Books, written by Confucian scholar Zhu Xi?
A ruling class of noble families.
A mountain range in western China.
What is the Himalayas? OR What is the Tian Shan?
The dynasty that reunified China after the fall of the Han dynasty.
What is the Sui Dynasty?
The examination for scholar-officials was mainly based on this body of knowledge.
What are the teachings of Confucius?
Candidates were locked in a small room for several days and a second person copied each paper so that the examiners would not know whose work they were reading in order to prevent this from happening.
What is cheating?
To protect against disease by transmitting a disease-causing agent to a person, stimulating the body’s defensive reactions.
What is to inoculate?
The body of water that lies farthest north of China.
What is the Sea of Japan (East Sea)?
The general who declared himself emperor of the China and established the Tang dynasty.
Who is Li Yuan?
The reason why aristocrats held most government positions in the Tang dynasty, even with the civil service exam.
What is money for tutors, books, and time to study properly?
This important relationship did NOT possess a hierarchy.
What is the relationship between a friend and a friend?