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The Political Development of Imperial China
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Suppose four Chinese emperors are in the same dynasty. What must be true about them? | They are related and are in the same family. |
| Which phrase belongs in this box? | Dishonest beurocrats. |
| To people who believed in the Mandate of Heaven, when was it all right to overthrow an emperor? | If they were ruling bad. |
| How was China after the Han dynasty like Europe after the fall of Rome? | China split into separate kingdoms. |
| How did the Tang emperor after 618 build on the work of Sui emperors? | It strengthened the central government. |
| Whom did the earliest emperors of China choose to help them govern? | Choose members of the artistocracy |
| Which dynasty first introduced civil service examinations? | Han dynasty |
| Some of the questions on the civil service examinaion were about.. | Chinese classics, poetry, and legal/administrative issues. |
| If you wanted a job in government service under the Song dynasty, which of these would you have studied? | Confucius. |
| How did the lives of some people from the lower clasess change under the Song dynasty? | They gained the ability to become scholar officials. |
| In a meritocracy, selection of officials was based on.. | The civil service test scores. |
| According to Confucius, rules had a duty to.. | Be kind. |
| Whom did the emperor Kublsi Khan trust most to hold government jobs? | Other mongols foreigners. |
| Which of the following was one reason why the Yhan dynasty could not fill all government jobs with Mongols? | They were unable to read and write. |
| One weakness of China's civil service system was that it created bureaucracy that values.. | Tradition more than progress. |
| By the 1600s, the Chinese bureaucracy was unable to adapt to change. This contributed to... | The fall of the Ming dynasty. |