Topic 12 Test Review

Match the following

• Himalayan Mountains

• 5

• Gobi Desert

• 6

• Korean Peninsula

• 2

• Pacific Ocean

• 7

• Japan

• 3

The Mongols were known for...

• Being fierce warriors and terrorizing their enemies

• Nature poetry

• improving rice crops

• inventing the printing press

Japanese culture is heavily influenced by China

• True

• False

What were the two benefits to Mongol rule?

• technological innovation like the printing press

  
  

• Mongols refused to allow everyone to practice any religion

  
  

• everyone was treated as equals including the Chinese people

  
  

• economic prosperity of the Silk Road

  
  

• political stability, subjects obeyed Mongol laws

Chinese and Indian traders exchanged goods, ideas, and beliefs along the Silk Road.
​Which belief system was spread to China by Indian merchants?

• Buddhism

• Islam

• Christianity

• Hindusim

Read the list answer the question:

Rice Cultivation during the Song Dynasty

•  New strains of rice were used.

•  Improved methods of irrigation were developed.

•  Rice growing areas became the centers of economic growth.

Why were the technologies described in the list so important to the Song Dynasty?

• Desert conditions improved access to rivers for the growth of crops.

  
  

• Higher farm productivity was needed to sustain an expanding civilization.

  
  

• Taxes on foreign agricultural products led to food shortages.

  
  

• Mountainous terrain improved access to foreign goods.

Which historical figure led Mongolia during its greatest expansion?

• Zheng He

• Wu Zeitan

• Emperor Zhenzong

• Genghis Khan

Who did Marco Polo's book about his journey in China with the Mongols eventually inspire to find a new route to China by travelling west from Europe only to find the Americas?

• Kublai Khan

• Christoper Columbus

• Zheng He

• Leif Erikson

Which sentence best describes the establishment of the Yuan Dynasty in China?

• A Chinese warlord was able to repel the Mongol army and establish the Yuan Dynasty.

• The last ruler of the Song dynasty died without an heir and a new family was chose by the mandate of heaven.

• The Mongols conquered parts of northern China over several decades but Kublai Khan built a fleet of ships to navigate the many rivers in southern China to complete the conquest.

• Kublai Khan was able to negotiate a treaty to take over Chinese territory without using military force.

The Forbidden city in China, the reconstruction of the Great Wall, and the voyages of Zheng He are all associated with which Chinese Dynasty?

• The Tang

• The Song

• The Ming

• The Yuan