Ch. 4 China in the Middle Ages pages 138-169

Advances in farming took place during which dynasties?

• The Tang and Yuan
• The Tang and Song
• The Ming and Yuan
• The Song and Ming

The Tang dynasty is said to have produced the finest examples of what Chinese art?

• Music
• Painting
• Poetry
• Porcelain

Scholar-officials had to pass exams based on the teachings of

• the Song Emperor
• the Tang Emperor
• Li Bo
• Confucius

The Tang Dynasty strengthened government by bringing back China's

• urbanization.
• bureaucracy.
• money economy.
• merit system.

Under the emperors of the Tang dynasty, China

• shrank in size but was politically stable.
• was divided into warring territories.
• closed its borders to foreign trade.
• united and expanded greatly in size.

During the Tang and Song dynasties, the growth of which crop helped populations grow?

• Silk
• Rice
• Wheat
• Corn

The Song government based its merit system upon

• how successful people were at trade.

• how much rice people produced each year.

• how high a social status a person was born into.

• how well people scored on civil service exams.

Taizong stabilizaed China's government by

• reviving China's official bureaucracy.
• closing government departments.
• naming Empress Wu as emperor.
• decreasing its military power.

The city of Chang'an can best be described as

• an isolated city with very few visitors
• A disorganized city with no infrastructure
• A flourishing cultural and commercial center
• A small but organized government center

The government in the Song period was based on

• social status

• the merit system

• a person's wealth

• a person's family