Question 1

What was the Chinese Imperial Bureaucracy?

Accepted Answer

The vast Chinese government where appointed officials carried out the empire's policies

(developed in the Han dynasty and became most powerful during the Song)

Question 2

What was the Chinese civil service exam?

Accepted Answer

A test that allowed young men to get into the Chinese bureaucracy

(prominent in the Song Dynasty)

Question 3

What is a meritocracy?

Accepted Answer

A government where politicians are selected based on worth (often by taking a test)

Question 4

How did the Song Dynasty eventually weaken the Chinese Empire?

Accepted Answer

They expanded the imperial bureaucracy too much (it cost too much to pay for government officials, drying up China's wealth)

Question 5

Where was gunpowder invented?

Accepted Answer

China

Question 6

How did gunpowder spread across Eurasia?

Accepted Answer

From China, it spread through traders on the Silk Road

Question 7

What made Champa Rice special?

Accepted Answer

It was fast-ripening and drought resistant

Question 8

What plant greatly increased China's agricultural productivity?

Accepted Answer

Champa Rice

Question 9

What effect did increased agricultural productivity have on China?

Accepted Answer

Huge population growth (25% of the world to 40%)

Question 10

What is proto-industrialization?

Accepted Answer

A set of economic changes where people in rural areas make more goods than they can sell (still no factories, this was usually home-based)

(occurred in China, prior to the Silk Road)

Question 11

Who were artisans in China?

Accepted Answer

Skilled craft workers that worked in smelting facilities under government supervision

(produced steel, silk, porcelain)

Question 12

How did the Song Dynasty's government make money?

Accepted Answer

Required other states to pay money to them through the tributary system

Question 13

Who were the scholar gentry?

Accepted Answer

An influential social class in China who were educated in Confucian philosophy (early Chinese equivalent of Renaissance men)

Question 14

What is foot-binding?

Accepted Answer

A sexist practice where young girls in China had their feet wrapped so tightly that the bones did not grow naturally

(this symbolized a high social status; banned in 1912)

Question 15

Why could China spread knowledge so quickly?

Accepted Answer

It invented paper and printing far before Europe

Question 16

What is woodblock printing?

Accepted Answer

An early system of printing invented in 7th century China

Question 17

How did Buddhism spread to China?

Accepted Answer

Through the Silk Road from India

Question 18

What was Confucianism?

Accepted Answer

System of philosophical and ethical teachings to establish the social values, ideals, or way of life of traditional Chinese society (founded by Confucius)

Question 19

Who were the daimyo?

Accepted Answer

Powerful Japanese lords who controlled lots of land (more powerful that European nobility)

1.1 - East Asia, AP World History: Modern Flashcards