A Merit Based System
& Education
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This testing system selected government officials based on knowledge instead of family background.
What is the civil service examination system?
The Song faced threats from nomadic peoples from this direction.
What is the north?
After the Northern Song collapsed, the remaining dynasty moved south and became known as this.
What is the Southern Song?
Rice was often grown in these flooded farming fields.
What are rice paddies?
Wealthy men sometimes had additional wives known by this term.
What is a concubine?
The Song formed an alliance with this horseback-riding group from Manchuria to defeat the Khitan.
Who are the Jurchen?
Northern China was ruled by this dynasty created by the Jurchen.
What is the Jin Dynasty?
A fast-growing rice variety introduced from Vietnam helped increase food production.
What is Champa rice?
This painful practice reshaped girls’ feet and became a sign of beauty and high status.
What is foot binding?
Students studying for the exams focused heavily on the teachings of this philosopher.
Who is Confucius?
After defeating the Khitan, the Jurchen established this new dynasty in northern China.
What is the Jin Dynasty?
In 1142, the Southern Song signed a humiliating treaty requiring them to pay this to the Jin each year.
What is tribute (silver and silk)?
Improved food production during the Song Dynasty helped cause a major increase in this
What is the population?
Because women controlled their trousseau property, they sometimes maintained this type of independence.
What is economic independence?
The Jurchen used new weapons such as this technology that the Song struggled to fight against.
What is incendiary arrows or gunpowder weapons?
After the collapse of the north, millions of people fled south in this major population movement.
What is the Great Migration?
Song farmers increased farmland by draining and farming these areas of land
What are swamps?
The practice of foot binding showed that a woman was wealthy because she did not have to do this type of labor.
What is physical labor / farm work?
During the Song Dynasty, this social class of educated landowners often prepared for and took the civil service exams.
What is the scholar-gentry?
In 1127, the Jurchen captured this Song capital city, leading to the fall of the Northern Song.
What is Kaifeng?
Many migrants settled in this new Southern Song capital that became a huge city.
What is Hangzhou?
As farming became more efficient, many people left agriculture and began producing specialized goods for this economic activity.
What is commercial trade?
The property or goods a bride brought into a marriage was called this.
What is a trousseau?