Chapter 2 test questions

Which of the following contributed to the doubling of the Chinese population during the Tang and Song dynasties?

• The conquest of Japan

• The adoption of a fast-ripening strain of rice from Vietnam

• The end of warfare with pastoral peoples

• The massive importation of food crops from Central Asia

Which of the following is a reason that the Song dynasty is regarded as a golden age in China?

• The peaceful transfer of power from the Tang to the Song

• The development of democratic political institutions

• The setting of standards of excellence in art and literature

• The nearly universal adoption of Buddhism by the population

Which of the following explains why women's lives were more restricted in the Song dynasty than in the previous dynasty?

• The introduction of Daoism

• The decline of Buddhism

• The revival of Confucianism

• The spread and influence of nomadic cultures

Which of the following contributed to China's economic prosperity during the Song dynasty?

• The suppression of internal trade in order to increase long-distance trade

• The import of large numbers of slaves to work in agriculture and industry

• The large-scale immigration of indentured servants from Pacific Oceania

• A complex network of internal waterways that provided cheap transportation

In Song dynasty China, masculine identity came to be defined in terms of

• archery, horseback riding, and athleticism

• military valor and business acumen

• calligraphy, scholarship, painting, and peotry

• weakness, reticence, sacrifice, and delicacy

Which of the following was a political contribution of the Song dynasty?

• The creation of an aristocracy that transformed the government from a monarchy to an oligarchy

• The introduction of administrative procedures that made the bureaucracy obsolete

• The democratization of the political system with the establishment of the Censorate

• The construction of a state structure that lasted until the twentieth century

The emergence of which practice during the Song dynasty suggests that Chinese women's lives were more restricted than they had been in the previous dynasty?

• Remarriage of widows

• Tribute system

• Foot binding

• Bushido

Which of the following pictured in Map 2.1, " Song Dynasty China and Its Neighbors," would have facilitated trade between norther and southern China?

• Overland access to the Korean peninsula

• The Grand Canal

• The central location of Beijing

• The Great Wall

Which of the following is depicted in the illustration entitled "Kaifeng"?

• The social stratification common to the Tang dynasty

• The Korean influence on China during the Song dynasty

• The overpopulation problems China faced during the Tang dynasty

• The urban sophistication of Kaifeng

Which of the following statements describes Korea's relationship with China in the premodern period?

• Korean elites rejected Chinese culture, but peasants adopted it wholesale

• Korea adopted elements of Chinese culture while still remaining a distinctive culture and separate political existence

• Korea was a subject state ruled directly by China for most of its history

• Korean rulers never participated in the Chinese tribute system in an effort to assert their independence from China