A new type of _________ was introduced to China and soon became the new Cash Crop.
What is Rice?
100
A magnetic device that helped sailors navigate by telling which direction is North.
What is a Compass?
100
Individual characters made of wood or metal that can be arranged to create a printing job and then be used over again
What is moveable type?
100
The Mongol Dynasty
What is the Yuan?
200
Who taught that people must act properly in five important relationships: ruler and subject, father and son, older sibling and younger sibling, husband and wife, and friend and friend?
What is Confucius?
200
What drove many landowners to the south?
What is Wars and attacks by tribes from Mongolia.
200
The Chinese invented the art of making this by the second century. However, the Europeans didn't learn this art until the 11th century.
What is paper?
200
An Italian merchant who wrote about his travels through China.
What is Marco Polo?
200
the Dynasty referred to as "the Golden Age of China" who ruled from 206 B.C.E. - 220 C.E.
What is the Han?
300
Rule by officials of proven merit
What is meritocracy?
300
Name 2 new and better farming techniques that increased agricultural production?
What is the Plow, harrow, fertilizer, chain pump, terraces
300
The Imperial China version of Starbucks (but they didn't serve coffee!)
What is Tea Houses?
300
Name 2 things the Chinese imported from the West
What is ivory, cotton, perfumes, spices and horses
300
Dynasty that created the Civil Service Exams
What is the Han?
400
Who did Confucian scholars believe to be the lowest class of society, thus unable to take the Civil Service exam?
What is merchants?
400
Name 2 reasons for the growth of trade and commerce
What is wealthy landowners were eager to buy luxuries; improvement in water transportation & navigation, currency.
400
This type of metal is less brittle than iron
What is steel?
400
Name 3 things the Chinese exported
What is porcelin, paper, iron and jade
400
Opening up of China to foreign influences at the start of the dynasty; closing down of China by the end of the Dynasty.
What is the Ming?
500
Which Mongol ended the system of Civil Service exams?
What is Kublai Khan?
500
Give 2 reasons for Urbanization.
What is growth of commerce encouraged people to move to cities and towns; landowners left their farms because they preferred their shops and social life of the cities.
500
When a boat entered the _______, a gate was lowered to hold in water. The water was then allowed to rise until it reached the level of the water up ahead. Then the boat floated on. to go "downhill", water was released by the ______ until it fell to the level of the water down below. This is called a __________?
What is canal lock?
500
The name of the Chinese sailor/explorer who travelled all around the world making friends and collecting tributaries.
What is Zheng He?
500
Relied on civil service exams open to everybody, regardless of social stature.