TEST AP WORLD CHAPTER 12

In what decade did open persecution of Buddhism within the Chinese empire begin?

840s

Which of the following was NOT a problem during the last years of the Tang dynasty?

A Buddhist rebellion in southern China

What artisan was responsible for the development of movable type?

Bi Sheng

Which of the following statements concerning entry into the Chinese bureaucracy is most accurate?

Birth and family connections continued to be important in securing high office.

What was the result of the imperial attempt by the Tang to suppress Buddhism within the Chinese empire?

Buddhism survived the repression, but in a reduced state without the political influence of the early Tang years.

Members of the elite class of China were more attracted to what variant of Buddhism?

Chan

Which kingdom was conquered by Wendi in 589?

Chen

Which of the following statements concerning urbanization in China during the Tang-Song era is most accurate?

Chinese urbanization mushroomed during the Tang-Song era with a higher proportion of the population living in cities.

Which of the following intellectual schools was responsible for the production of most literary and artistic works during the Tang-Song era?

Confucian

What was the impact on Confucianism of the Tang repression of the Buddhists?

Confucianism emerged as the central ideology of Chinese civilization until the 20th century.

Which of the following was NOT an eventual impact of the development of neo-Confucian schools of thought?

Destruction of the Mandarins

What Tang ruler actually attempted to have Buddhism recognized as a state religion?

Empress Wu

What was a primary difference between marriages, families, and households of the upper and lower classes in Tang-Song China?

Extended family households were more common in upper-class households than in lower-class ones.

In what way did foot-binding serve to diminish the independence of Chinese women by the end of the Song era?

Foot-binding sufficiently crippled women to effectively confine their mobility to their household.

What was the capital of the southern Song dynasty?

Hangzhou

Which of the following descriptions of Pure Land Buddhism is NOT accurate?

It appealed to upper class Chinese.

During the Song dynasty the interest of Confucian intellectuals in nature was most apparent in their production of

Landscape paintings

Wang Anshi, a prime minister in the 1070s and 1080s attempted to reform Song government on the basis of what Confucian school of thought?

Legalism

The outstanding poet of the Tang era was

Li Bo

Who was the founder of the Tang dynasty?

Li Yuan

The first Song emperor restored the unity of China EXCEPT for what northern dynasty?

Liao

Which of the following statements about Chinese landscape painting is most accurate?

Members of the ruling political elite in China produced many of the paintings in the Song era.

Which of the following was NOT an economic development during the period of commercial expansion during the Tang and Song dynasties?

Military domination of the seas

What group was responsible for the fall of the southern Song dynasty in 1279?

Mongols

Which of the following was NOT a technological innovation of the Tang-Song era?

Paper

What ministry of the central imperial government was responsible for the administration of the examination system?

Rites

The dynasty that ended the period of political chaos after the fall of the Qin-Han was the

Sui

What proved to be the most damaging attack on Buddhism's popularity with the people during the early Tang dynasty?

The Confucians' successful campaign to convince the emperor that the Buddhist monastic establishment represented an economic threat

How did the Song empire compare to the Tang?

The Song empire was smaller in territorial extent than the Tang empire.

What was the attitude of the Tang emperors toward the Confucian scholar-gentry?

The Tang supported the rebirth of the Confucian scholar-gentry, often at the expense of the aristocracy.

Why was the construction of the Grand Canal necessary?

The Yangtze River valley was becoming the major food-producing region of China by the late Tang era

Which of the following statements concerning the status of women in the Tang-Song era is most accurate?

The assertion of male dominance within the family was especially pronounced in the thinking of the neo-Confucian philosophers.

What was the primary reform enacted during the reign of the first Sui emperor?

The creation of granaries to relieve the threat of famine

Which of the following statements most accurately describes the position of the scholar-gentry under the Song dynasty?

The domination of the scholar-gentry over its aristocratic and Buddhist rivals was fully secured in the Song era.

Which of the following was NOT one of the reforms introduced by Wang Anshi in the face of conservative opposition?

The end of tribute payments to nomadic dynasties on the northern border

What caused the flight of the Song dynasty from its capital in northern China?

The invasions of the Jurchens who had formed the Qin kingdom

What made possible the rapid revival of empire under the Tang?

The rebuilding of the imperial bureaucracy using Confucian ideology

Which of the following was NOT a result of the agricultural policies of the Sui and Tang emperors?

The scholar-gentry were removed as landlords.

What made the reunification of China under the first Sui emperor possible?

The support of the nomadic warrior elite

What led to the downfall of the Sui dynasty?

Unsuccessful military campaigns

The man responsible for the creation of the Sui dynasty was

Wendi

Which emperor's reign marked the high point of the Tang power?

Xuanzong

Who was the founder of the Song dynasty?

Zhao Kuangyin

Who was the most prominent of the neo-Confucians during the Song era?

Zhu Xi

The title of jinshi was reserved for those who

passed the most difficult exams on Chinese literature

Unlike his father, the second Sui emperor favored

the Confucian scholar-gentry class.

Which of the following statements concerning the extent of the Tang empire is most accurate?

the tang built an empire that was far larger then the Han. an empire where boundaries in many directions extended beyond the borders of modern China