Imperial China Review

1. To people who believed in the Mandate of Heaven, when was it all right to overthrow an emperor?

2. Whom did the earliest emperors of China choose to help them govern?

Which dynasty first introduced civil service examinations?

4. Some of the questions on the civil service examination were about

5. If you wanted a job in government service under the Song dynasty, which of these would you have studied?

6. In a meritocracy, selection of officials was based on

7. One weakness of China’s civil service system was that it created a bureaucracy that valued

8. What caused Chinese farmers to move from northern to southern China during the Tang and Song dynasties?

10. What was the most important effect of a new crop variety introduced to southern China after 1000 C.E.?

11. How did Chinese farmers raise crops on steep hillsides?