CHAPTER 10

The westward expansion of the Tang Dynasty was stopped by the

Battle of Talas against the Muslim Abbasid Empire.

Which Mongol conquest was most successful?

China

The Silk Road connected

China, India, and the Middle East.

The founder of the Mongol Empire was

Genghis Khan

The Turkish-speaking tribal group that ultimately overthrew the Tang were the

Kirghiz

The Empress Wu did all of following except:

Led her armies from horseback

As a peasant, bandit, and then the first Ming emperor, Hongwu did all except:

Lived in a simple hut instead of a palace.

The Confucian scholar who was the primary proponent of the idea that the correct way to transcend the material world was self-cultivation through the "investigation of things" was

Zhu Xi.

The Mongols founded the Ming Dynasty.

false

All of the following contributed to the fall of the Tang except

invasion by the Mongols.

Over the course of the three centuries after the fall of the Han and before the rise of the Sui Dynasty,

Buddhism developed a much wider following among the Chinese people.

As a result of early Tang rule,

Buddhist influence helped to produce a blossoming of Chinese culture.

Chinese critics of Buddhism saw it as a threat to

Confucian teachings.

Ming China's economy became the largest in the world due to development because of all except:

Developing gunpowder, allowing for a professional army.

What contributed to the demise of the Yuan Dynasty?

Excessive military spending

China's three main exports are all EXCEPT:

Herbs used in Chinese medicines

Which of the following statements is not a valid observation about the Sui Dynasty?

It permanently incorporated Korea into the Chinese domain.

Under the ____ Dynasty, China extended its rule into Mongolia and Central Asia.

Ming

What did Chinese parents expect from their children, above all else?

Obedience

Rice became the main food crop in China during which dynasty?

Song

In 755, a rebellion that briefly gained control of Chang'an undermined the ____ Dynasty.

Tang

Which of the following was not an economic factor in medieval China?

The Sui dynasty closed the Silk Road.

The name given to the Asian region northwest of traditional China that was pacified by the Tang was

Xinjiang

The Tang Dynasty was interrupted by

a consort, Wu Zetian, who established her own Zhou Dynasty.

With the increase in trade and urban activities during the Tang and Song eras,

a landed gentry class assumed a position of social and economic dominance.

Wu Zhao

became empress of China.

The Popes and Great Khans of the Mongol empire

both believed that their respective actions were sanctioned by heaven

The Chinese concept of history has traditionally been different from that of the West in that the Chinese tended to have a

cyclical concept of time.

The Song political system

developed the equivalent of a modern cabinet within its Department of State Affairs.

State Confucianism

expressed a traditional, activist element in Chinese philosophy.

After being an outlaw and a monk, Chu was hesitant to become emperor, to receive the Mandate of Heaven, because of the sign of an eclipse.

false

During the Han, the Chinese mastered the art of manufacturing steel.

false

Genghis Khan spent his teen years in the shadow of his elder brother.

false

In the 1280s, Venice's Marco Polo visited the city of Nanjing, the capital of the Yuan dynasty.

false

Kublai Khan imposed Mongolian traditions on the Chinese court.

false

Most scholars think it likely that Zheng He circumnavigated the globe.

false

The Mongols succeeded the Ming as the rulers of China.

false

The Sui Dynasty united all of China after a long period of disunity and built a capital at Beijing.

false

The Sui Dynasty was China's longest dynasty.

false

The Tale of the Marshes is a sentimental tale of day-to-day peasant life.

false

The early Tang sought to enhance the power of the landed nobility.

false

The novel began to appear under the Tang dynasty as part of a new literary movement.

false

The Chinese familial ideal was a

family with at least ten children.

Affluent Chinese during the Tang Dynasty

had new forms of entertainment and means of communication.

Civil service examinations

heavily favored aristocrats during the Tang dynasty

In the Chinese civil service examination system,

in comparison to other civilizations, the process provided a means for upward social mobility.

The Mongols

made use of Chinese institutions in governing China.

The most effective expression of literature from the Tang to the Ming dynasties was in the form of

poetry

The Buddhist sect that stressed the role of devotion was

the Pure Land Sect.

All of the following are correct about the Ming dynasty except

there were no contacts with Vietnam or Korea.

(In the Sui dynasty video) After the Han Dynasty fell, the literati rejected the tenants of Confucianism and turned to Neo-Daoism, that all things emanate from nothing.

true

After the third century CE collapse of the Han dynasty, China fell into a long period of division and civil war.

true

Although the Sui dynasty ruled only a short time, its successes included the construction of the Grand Canal, linking the Yangtze and the Yellow rivers.

true

By the Tang and Song eras, the gentry had replaced the aristocracy as the political and economic elite of Chinese society.

true

Disagreeing with the Ming Emperor brought death by nine degrees, i.e. death to nine degrees of extended family: parents, siblings, children and grandchildren, aunts, uncles, on and on.

true

During its final decades, the Song rulers were forced to pay tribute to the Jurchen peoples.

true

Foot binding was common for women of all social classes in northern China.

true

Genghis Khan's first child had doubtful paternity.

true

In the 1400s, after the Ming admiral, Zhenghe, had successfully led several large sailing expeditions to the coast of Africa and throughout Southeast Asia, the voyages were discontinued and were never revived.

true

Like the Boston Tea Party started the American Revolution, the "Throw Opium into the Sea" party started the Opium wars.

true

Tantrism emphasized the importance of magical symbols and ritual.

true

Tea emerged as China's national drink under the Tang.

true

Tea has been consumed for 6,000 years.

true

Tea was first eaten as a vegetable or grain porridge.

true

The British became opium dealers to be able to afford importing Chinese tea.

true

The Tang Dynasty witnessed a flowering of Chinese culture.

true

The defeat of the Tang Dynasty happened in the early tenth century.

true

The second Ming emperor, (a usurper) ordered a million men who worked twenty years to build the Forbidden City in Beijing for his palace.

true

The weary inventor of agriculture, Shennong, discovered tea by accidentally poisoning himself 72 times.

true

Zhu Xi was a leading figure in the School of Mind.

true

The Sui emperor was a(n) ____ ruler.

tyrannical

Neo-Confucianism

under Zhu Xi, divided the world into a material world and a transcendent world.

The Chinese civil service examination system

was unable to solve the problem of officials using their positions to help their relatives.