Ch. 15 "The Political Development of Imperial China"

In a meritocracy, selection of officials was based on

Archaeologists found these artifacts:

If you wanted a job in government service under the Song dynasty, which of these would you have studied?

Which dynasty first introduced civil service examinations?

The four of five stars in China's flag represent

Which of the following was one reason why the Yuan dynasty could not fill all government jobs with Mongols?

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

China is the ___________ in the world.

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

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

China's name comes from

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

Several decades of chaos and division occurred between the _________________ and the _____________dynasties.

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

Which phrase belongs in the empty box?

According to Confucius, rulers had a duty to

Some of the questions on the civil service examination were about

Of the four dynasties shown on the timeline, the one that ruled for the shortest time, was the _____________dynasty.

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

The amount of arable land in China

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

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

While there are 1.4 billion people in China it has a relatively low

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

The majority of China's population is located in the