8th WH China (Ch 14)

China's relations with other countries did not change very much during the Ming dynasty.

A scholar-official is an ________ member of the government.

The Chinese and the Mongols belonged to different ethnic groups.

Who became the ruler of the Mongol Empire in 1260?

_________ became the official state philosophy during the Han dynasty.

Zheng He was the greatest _________ of the Ming dynasty.

The ruling Mongols forced the Chinese to accept the Mongol way of life.

During the _______ dynasty, seafaring was an important part of Chinese culture.

________ was a ruler during the Tang dynasty who conquered many lands and created law codes.

Li Bo was a great poet of the _____ dynasty.

The Mongols were a nomadic people who came from the plains north of _______.

A Chinese person was probably more likely to meet someone from another culture in a trading city.

A policy of increased ________ was implemented by a Ming emperor in the 1430s.

The Sui dynasty only lasted from 589 to 618.

Before the Han dynasty, Confucius's ideas were widely accepted among the Chinese.

The Ming dynasty began in 1368 and lasted nearly ____ years.

Zhu Yuanzhang was a former monk who led a rebellion against the Yuan emperor.

Empress Wu was a popular but weak leader.

Yang Jian unified China in 589, creating the ________ dynasty.

What was the capital city of the Yuan dynasty?

Most people who took the tests to become a civil servant became government officials.

The Yuan dynasty was a period in Chinese history also known as the Mongol Ascendancy.

Buddhism was a religion that originated in __________ around 500 BC.

A time of disorder following the collapse of the Han dynasty:

During the Song dynasty, maritime trade was forbidden.

A printer can reuse and rearrange ______ to create new lines of text and different pages.

The _________ City was built during the Ming dynasty.

________ was perhaps China's greatest poet.

The building of the Grand Canal started during the ____ dynasty

Historians view the ________ dynasty as the golden age of Chinese civilization.

Valuable product developed during the Song dynasty:

The Great Wall of China was completed during the _______ dynasty.

Under the Song, the amount of land used for agriculture decreased.

The Sui dynasty began when a former Tang official overthrew the Tang dynasty.

During the Period of Disunion, ____________ was not as popular as ______________.

During the Period of Disunion, the cultures of northern invaders and traditional Chinese were sometimes combined.

Under the Tang dynasty ruler, _______, culture flourished.

The Great Wall of China was more than ________ miles long.

During the _______ dynasty, some farmers began digging underground wells.

This ruler, though not well liked, brought prosperity to China:

A bureaucracy is a body of unelected government officials.

Where was the Forbidden City built?

Confucius's teachings focused on how to escape suffering.

During the Sui and Tang dynasties, Buddhism experienced a rapid decline in popularity.

Civil servants during the Song dynasty had to be aware of the principles of _____________.

Confucius lived 1,000 years before the Song dynasty.

A huge palace complex was called the Forbidden City because no one was allowed to enter it.

One of the most useful inventions of the Tang dynasty was paper.

Farming device invented during the Song dynasty.

Farmers learned to grow many new crops during the Song dynasty.