Question 1

Khubilai Khan's capital was located in

Accepted Answer

A) Samarkand. 
B) Chang'an. 
C) Khanbaliq. 
D) Hangzhou. 
E) Karakorum. 
A) Samarkand. 
B) Chang'an. 
C) Khanbaliq. 
D) Hangzhou. 
E) Karakorum.

Question 2

Neo-Confucianism

Accepted Answer

A) was greatly aided in its intellectual development by Wu Zhao. 
B) under Zhu Xi, divided the world into a material world and a transcendent world. 
C) maintained that the world is illusory unless one possesses a rare variety of karma. 
D) was a translation of the Master's works into Japanese. 
E) succumbed to a revived Buddhism. 
A) was greatly aided in its intellectual development by Wu Zhao. 
B) under Zhu Xi, divided the world into a material world and a transcendent world. 
C) maintained that the world is illusory unless one possesses a rare variety of karma. 
D) was a translation of the Master's works into Japanese. 
E) succumbed to a revived Buddhism.

Question 3

Identify the following terms.
-civil service examination

Accepted Answer

The civil service examination is a testi

Question 4

In the Chinese civil service examination system

Accepted Answer

A) candidates from southern China always received the highest positions. 
B) the system entirely eliminated aristocratic influence in the government bureaucracy. 
C) the Song severely restricted the eligibility for taking the exams. 
D) many candidates who passed the first examination did not go on to a higher level. 
E) very few of the successful candidates came from the landed gentry. 
A) candidates from southern China always received the highest positions. 
B) the system entirely eliminated aristocratic influence in the government bureaucracy. 
C) the Song severely restricted the eligibility for taking the exams. 
D) many candidates who passed the first examination did not go on to a higher level. 
E) very few of the successful candidates came from the landed gentry.

Question 5

The Song political system

Accepted Answer

A) restored Legalism as its supporting official philosophy. 
B) was able to solve the problem of nomadic invasions by using its new fire-lance to exterminate nomadic cavalry. 
C) developed the equivalent of a modern cabinet within its Department of State Affairs. 
D) dissolved its entire military structure to save money for trading activities. 
E) was run by a female emperor during the late Yuan dynasty. 
A) restored Legalism as its supporting official philosophy. 
B) was able to solve the problem of nomadic invasions by using its new fire-lance to exterminate nomadic cavalry. 
C) developed the equivalent of a modern cabinet within its Department of State Affairs. 
D) dissolved its entire military structure to save money for trading activities. 
E) was run by a female emperor during the late Yuan dynasty.

Question 6

Identify the following terms.
-The Great Wall

Accepted Answer

The Great Wall is a series of fortificat

Khubilai Khan's capital was located in

Neo-Confucianism

Identify the following terms. -civil service examination

In the Chinese civil service examination system

The Song political system

Identify the following terms. -The Great Wall

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Exam 10: The Flowering of Traditional China

Khubilai Khan's capital was located in

Neo-Confucianism

Identify the following terms. -civil service examination

In the Chinese civil service examination system

The Song political system

Identify the following terms. -The Great Wall

Early Humans and the First Civilizations

Ancient India

China in Antiquity

The Civilization of the Greeks

The First World Civilizations: Rome, China, and the Emergence of the Silk Road

The Americas

Ferment in the Middle East: the Rise of Islam

Early Civilizations in Africa

The Expansion of Civilization in South and Southeast Asia

The East Asian Rimlands: Early Japan, Korea, and Vietnam

The Making of Europe

The Byzantine Empire and Crisis and Recovery in the West

New Encounters: the Creation of a World Market

Europe Transformed: Reform and State Building

The Muslim Empires

The East Asian World

The West on the Eve of a New World Order

The Beginnings of Modernization: Industrialization and Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century

The Americas and Society and Culture in the West

The High Tide of Imperialism

Shadows Over the Pacific: East Asia Under Challenge

The Beginning of the Twentieth-Century Crisis: War and Revolution

Nationalism, Revolution, and Dictatorship: Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America From 1919 to 1939

The Crisis Deepens: World War 2

East and West in the Grip of the Cold War

Brave New World: Communism on Trial

Europe and the Western Hemisphere Since 1945

Challenges of Nation Building in Africa and the Middle East

Toward the Pacific Century

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