15- Political Development of Imperial China

To people who believed in the Mandate of Heaven, when was it all right to overthrow an emperor?

How did the lives of some people from the lower classes change under the Song dynasty?

Which was a reason why the Yuan dynasty couldn't fill all government jobs by Mongols?

According to Confucius, rulers had a duty to

During the Yuan dynasty, who often filled the government positions?

One weakness of China’s civil-service system was that it created a bureaucracy that valued

Which dynasty first introduced civil service examinations?

In a meritocracy, selection of officials was based on

How was China after the Han dynasty like Europe after the fall of Rome?

If you wanted a job in gov't svc under the Song dynasty, which of these would you have studied?

Whom did the emperor Kublai Khan trust most to hold government jobs?

How did the Tang emperors after 618 build on the work of Sui emperors?

Whom did the earliest emperors of China choose to help them govern?

Civil service exams in imperial China were based largely on the teachings of

By the 1600s, the Chinese bureaucracy was unable to adapt to change. This contributed to the

Suppose four Chinese Emperors are in the same dynasty. Which statement must be true about them?

Some of the questions on the civil service examination were about