One major change in China during the Ming dynasty was:
ending naval expeditions and foreign trade.
CORRECT!
giving peasants more power.
repudiating Confucian ideas.
establishing colonies overseas.
The Tang strengthened the government by:
reintroducing the civil service examination.
CORRECT!
extending the Grand Canal into Korea.
giving up the Mandate of Heaven.
appointing a shogun to rule.
The Chinese innovations of paper money and banking were the result of increased trade and:
the invention of printing.
CORRECT!
political centralization.
Tagricultural productivity.
exposure to similar European practices.
During the 1400s, the Grand Fleet of Cheng Ho sailed from China all the way to:
the east coast of Africa.
CORRECT!
India.
the Persian Gulf.
the East Indies.
Footbinding was primarily practiced on:
elite, upper class women.
CORRECT!!
working women.
poor women.
just unmarried women.
The Chinese viewed the first Europeans to arrive in the 16c:
as just another group of unruly barbarian pirates.
CORRECT!!
with awe and fear.
with eagerness to learn the latest Western science and technology.
with eagerness to open new trade relations.
Probably the best known aspect of Tang art was:
glazed pottery figurines.
CORRECT!!
delicate flower arranging.
silk-screening of scenes from daily life.
elaborate decorative mosaics.
In the 15c through the 18c, China’s ethnocentric concept of itself as the “Middle Kingdom” led to:
a lack of interest in trade with European nations.
CORRECT!!
renewed attempts at Mediterranean conquest.
religious missionary expeditions to the New World.
granting independence to its tributary states in Southeast Asia.
The civil service of the Song period was:
recruited through competitive examinations.
CORRECT!!
chosen from the hereditary aristocracy.
had little power and influence.
highly illiterate and corrupt.
[Quiz originally from here]