Exam Review: Chinese Dynasties Test Answers
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- Sui
- This dynasty ended the second warring states periodand reunited China around 581.
- Song
- This dynasty could be seen as benevolent because it set up hospitals and orphanages. It also gave our food and money in times of natural disasters.
- Yuan
- This dynasty had a tremendous empire. PArts of its territory included Manchuria, Korea, northern China, central Asia, and even parts of Europe.
- 1. scholar officials- ran government 2. peasants- provided food and taxes 3. artisans- made useful things 4. merchants- parasites
- Briefly list how Chinese society was classified under the Ming.
- Tang
- This dynasty had a cleas hierarchy of government. The Secretariat and the Chancellery advised the emperor, the Department of State Affairs oversaw six ministries, and there was even a department similiar to the CIA called the Censorate.
- Tang
- Li Yuan founded this dynasty. During this dynasty, Buddhists gained power, so the government put and end to Buddhism and brought back Confucianism
- Han
- This dynasty's capital was at Chang'an. It expanded its borders to include Manchuria, the Korean peninsula, Indochina, and west into central Asia- where trade started to flourish along the silk road, in part, because the Huns were defeated.
- Qin
- This dynasty was divided into 36 districts; each district was headed by a civil governor and a military governor. The governors were overseen by an imperial inspector.
- Qin
- This dynasty ended the first warring states period in China. (China was united for the first time.)
- Han
- A scholar, Sima Qian, recorded the first history of China during this dynasty.
- Ming
- Emperor Xuande of this dynasty was seen as humane; he didn't like the death penalty and he didn't think that debtors should be put in jail.
- Zhou
- King You was the last leader of this kingdom, after he was killed the warring states continued until a powerful dynasty emerged.
- Han
- Liu Bang founded this dynasty, but Wu Di was probably this dynasty's greatest emperor.
- Han
- The invention of paper came out during this dynasty; as a result, literacy expanded.
- Song
- Zhao Kuangyin founded this dynasty. This dynasty also gave the Khitan a lot of silver so they could stay at their capital in Kaifeng. Later Genghis Khan made them flee to Hangzhou in southeast China.
- Ming
- Zhu Yuangzhang founded this brilliant dynasty.
- Ming
- This dynasty got soldiers to move to the frontier in exchange for free land.
- Yuan
- This dynasty needed to get food to its hungry people at the capital, so three million workers restored and extended the Grand Canal which connected the capital to the rice paddies in southern China.
- Han
- The Imperial Academy was established during this dynasty. Scholars might of used its library to study for the first Civil Service Exams.
- Yuan
- During this dynasty, the Silk Road became safer for travelers because it was monitered by patrols.
- Ming
- Toward the end of this dynasty's reign, Emperor Chongzhen was scared of the oncoming enemy, so he made his wife commit suicide, killed his daughters, then hanged himself.
- Zhou
- The most important advancement for this dynasty was the discovery of iron. Iron plows helped the farmers grow more grain. They might have used iron tools to start working on an irrigation system that later became known as the Grand Canal.
- Sui
- One of this dynasty's greatest accomplishments was digging a trememdous irrigation channel that connected the Chang jiang River to the Yellow River. This was known as the Grand Canal.
- Han
- This dynasty was the first dynasty to use leveling; now people might not go hungry in times of bad harvests.
- Ming
- During this dynasty, sailing expeditions reached as far as Africa. Although Zheng He and his friends brought back a lot of fancy goods from overseas, the main purpose of the voyages was to establish ties with foreign governments.
- Yuan
- This dynasty set up relay stations; it was the first messenger system across Asia.
- Song
- This dynasty established a new tax system that caused many peasants to become tenant farmers.
- Yuan
- Kublai Khan founded this dynasty.
- Ming
- This dynasty refused to pay a ransom when the Mongols kidnapped the emperor, Zhengtong. Instead of paying the ransom, this dynasty just made Zhengtong's half brother the new emperor.
- Qin
- This dynasty did not want any threats, so its leader ordered the death of 460 scholars.
- Qin
- This dynasty was autocratic in nature,; it accomplished a lot in a short period of time, in part because the dynasty used "compulsory labor".
- Qin
- Shi Huangdi was the first emperor of this dynasty.
- Ming
- This dynasty fell for many reasons: the eunuchs had too much control, government officials bickered, the government raised taxes but spent more money (on themselves) than it recieved, soldiers left their posts, and finally, the Manchus invaded.
- Song
- Although tis dynasty believed in the civil service, they didn't necessarily trust all of the people who wanted to become a government official. During this dynasty, many precautions were taken to prevent candidates from cheating on the civil service test.
- Ming
- This dynasty was responsible for the construction of the Imperial Palace and the Temple of Heaven.