Question 1

Sui Yangdi

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Question 2

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

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A)  China experienced a period of tranquility and order. 
B)  Confucianism grew in popularity. 
C)  Buddhism developed a much wider following among the Chinese people. 
D)  Daoism disappeared in China. 
E)  Islam made its first appearance in China.

Question 3

Discuss the impact of the northern nomad peoples upon Chinese society in the late Tang and Song eras.Be specific.

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Question 4

Khubilai Khan's capital was located in

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

Question 5

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

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A)  Zhu Xi. 
B)  Wang Yangming. 
C)  Fa Xua. 
D)  Tang Wo. 
E)  Shao Yung.

Question 6

Zhenghe

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Question 7

Sui Dynasty

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Question 8

What roles did Buddhism,Daoism,and Neo-Confucianism play in Chinese intellectual life in the period between the Sui dynasty and the Ming? In the public sphere,what advantages did Confucianism have over Buddhism and Daoism,and why?

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Question 9

Chan

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Question 10

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.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

How significant was international trade to Chinese society? What was traded? From where and to where? Who benefited-China? Its neighbors? Within China?

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Question 12

During the Han Dynasty,Chinese literature was stimulated by the invention of

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A)  a vernacular language. 
B)  paper. 
C)  bronze-block printing. 
D)  kabuki. 
E)  sake.

Question 13

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

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

Neo-Confucianism

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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 15

Gobi Desert

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Question 16

Dunhuang caves

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Question 17

The motives for the voyages of Zhenghe possibly included all of the following except

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A)  trading profits. 
B)  curiosity. 
C)  to seek information on a earlier emperor who might have escaped into exile. 
D)  military conquest. 
E)  all of the above

Question 18

fire-lance

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Question 19

Karakorum

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Question 20

Grand Canal

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Exam 10: The Flowering of Traditional China