Ch.17 Imperial China

Traders and missionaries from Korea brought Buddhism to China

• True

• False

The use of coal for heating led to finding of steel.

• False

• True

The Jesuits were able to convert many Chinese to Christianity during the Ming dynasty.

• True

• False

Mongol conqueror who started the Yuan dynasty

• Ming

• Tang

• Kublai Khan

• Neo-Confucianism

dynasty that lasted almost 300 years and restored strong central government

• Tang

• Sui

• Shang

• Ming

dynasty that encouraged the arts and overseas exploration

• Ming

• Tang

• Shang

• Kublai Khan

Most Ming Chinese officials welcomed new ideas from foreign countries.

• True

• False

Empress Wu increased the size of the government and

• widened the grand canal

• created the Silk Road

• restored civil service examinations

• created the Sui dynasty

The invention that helped the Chinese solve the problem of needing more money for trade was..

• gunpowder

• silk

• printing

• tea

Who brought together the Mongol clans, built a large army, and created a new legal code?

• Empress Wu

• Kublai Khan

• Marco Polo

• Genghis Khan