APWH Unit 1 - East Asia

What enabled China to become the most populous trading area in the world under the Song Dynasty?

• Gunpowder

• meritocracy

• Grand Canal

• imperial bureaucracy

What changes in agriculture produced an abundance of food that allowed China's population to increase from 25% of the worlds total population to nearly 40% during the Song Dynasty?

• Champa rice

• elaborate irrigation systems using ditches, water wheels, pumps and terraces

• use of manure (both human and animal)

• heavy plows pulled by water buffalo or oxen allowed previously unusable land to be cultivated

What relied on home-based or community-based production using simple equipment and is a set of economic changes in which people in rural areas made more goods than they could sell?

• proto-industrialization

• industrialization

• artisans, skilled craftworkers

• manufacturing

What was a change in the way the Song built public projects such as roads and irrigation canals?

• The government used slave labor to build the projects and this saved money for the people

• The government used criminals to build the projects

• The government allowed poor people to work on the projects instead of paying taxes

• The government paid people to work on the projects

What is a kowtow?

• A type of rice grown that allowed for production year round.

• Ritual greeting of the Chinese emperor by bowing until someones head touches the floor.

• The class structure of China with people advancing based on an exam system.

• The trading ship used by the Chinese to transport large quanties of goods.

Match the following

• signified social status

• merchants

• worked for landowners

• scholar gentry

• low status based on Confucianism

• peasants

• educated in Confucian philosophy

• aristocracy

• landowners who inherit wealth

• foot binding

What was China the first to develop that contributed to generations of well-rounded scholar-bureaucrats?

• Woodblock printing

• Gunpowder

• Irrigation ditches with water wheels

• Paper

Match the following

• emphasized ethics, not God or nature

• Zen Buddhism

• spiritual growth, service

• Theravada Buddhism

• direct experience, meditation

• Tibetan Buddhism

• spiritual growth, silent meditation

• Mahayana Buddhism

• chanting, strong in Tibet

• Neo-Confucianism

What is the idea called that it is the duty of family members to subordinate their desires to those of the male head of the family and to the ruler?

• Feudalism

• Buddhism

• Neo-Confucianism

• Filial piety