Chapter 17 TEST Review

What was China like under Mongol rule?

• at war and exploration

• wealthy and powerful

• it was the golden age of poetry

Who was Kublai Khan?

• Genghis Khan's grandson

• Ruler of the Song

• inventor of printing

What were some of Genghis Khan's accomplishments?

• creating the Ming dynasty and building the Imperial City

• creating China's huge ships that made 7 explorations

• unifying the Mongols by creating a legal code

What were the paintings during the Song dynasty like?

• landscapes with poetry

• calligraphy of Chinese characters

• porcelain of blue and white

Which Chinese dynasty lasted about 300 years?

• Mesopotamian

• Yuan

• Song

What two ideas did Neo-Confucianism include?

• Hindu and Christian

• Daoist and Buddhist ideas

• Daoist and Muslim

Tang leaders feared that Buddhism would affect China’s Confucian traditions so they___________

• encouraged Neo-Confucianism

• made all Buddhists slaves

• asked Marco Polo to rule the dynasty

How did someone become a scholar-official?

• by learning how to write all the Chinese characters

• by inventing a new strain of rice

• by passing the civil service examination

To prepare for ___________________, boys started learning at age 4

• civil service examination

• the military service

• building the Great Wall of China

During the Tang dynasty, farmers ____________

• developed new kinds of rice and the population grew

• invented paper and were able to make paper money

• started building the Great Wall of China