China's New Economy

How did the shift to growing rice encourage trade and the demand for luxury items during the Song dynasty?

• With an increase of food, peasants could take time away from farming to sell other products.
• Rice farmers could market their surplus rice and make more money.
• Landowners became rich enough from growing rice to buy luxury items.
• all of these.

This is a Song dynasty pagoda in southern China. Why did many people decide to move south during the Tang dynasty?

• bad weather prevented farming
• attacks by tribes from Mongolia
• famine and outbreak of diseases
• lack of water in some areas

This image shows a porcelain object made during the Song dynasty. Other goods from China included

• silk.
• sugar.
• rice.
• all of these.

The main reason that the Chinese population grew during the Song dynasty was

• there was an abundance of food.
• there were many foreign tourists.
• there was less disease.
• there were more merchants.

Which of the following is true of China's cities during this passage written by Marco Polo ...
The river is navigated by so many vessels that the number might seem incredible . . . and travelling towards the south for sixteen days, you unceasingly meet with commercial towns and with castles.

• China's cities were either very rich or very poor.
• China's cities were much smaller than the cities in Europe.
• China's cities were much larger than the cities in Europe.
•  China's cities were poor although they had advanced technology.

What was one major reason for the increase in rice production during the Song dynasty?

• a new variety of rice was introduced
• fewer jobs in the cities meant more people became farmers
• peasants had to spend all their time farming
• less rain during this period meant more rice could be grown
  

What was one result of farmers moving from northern to southern China?

• Farmers grew wheat and millet in the south because of the cold and dry conditions there.
• Farmers grew rice plants in the south because of warm and wet conditions there.
• Farmers grew rice in the south because it was the only crop that would grow well there.
• Farmers grew wheat in the north because of the warm and wet conditions there.

What allowed business to boom during the Tang and Song dynasties?

• many roads were paved
• China didn't trade with foreigners.
• emperors promoted trade
• people did not have paper money

Urbanization is the ...

• growth of cities.
• growth of rural areas.
• growth of schools.
• growth of farms.

What linked northern and southern China?

• Grand Canal
• Amur Trail
• Ganges River
• Aral Sea