Tang and Song Dynasty Governance and Agriculture

Scholar-officials had to pass exams based on the teachings of

• the Song Emperor
• the Tang Emperor
• Li Bo
• Confucius

The Tang Dynasty strengthened government by bringing back China's

• urbanization.
• bureaucracy.
• money economy.
• merit system.

Under the emperors of the Tang dynasty, China

• shrank in size but was politically stable.
• was divided into warring territories.
• closed its borders to foreign trade.
• united and expanded greatly in size.

During the Tang and Song dynasties, the growth of which crop helped populations grow?

• Silk
• Rice
• Wheat
• Corn

The Song government based its merit system upon

• how successful people were at trade.

• how much rice people produced each year.

• how high a social status a person was born into.

• how well people scored on civil service exams.

The Tang and Song is known as the 

• end of Chinese Civilization
• Dynastic Cycle
• Golden Age of China
• a and c

To become a scholar official

• students had to know Buddhism
• Students had to be from noble families
• students had to make inventions
• students had to pass a difficult Confucian test 

Trade from China to Europe  

• made China poor
• Silk Road
• passed along the Grand Canal
• came across the East China Sea

What instrument revolutionized sailing?

• Peridot
• Radar
• Magnetic Compass
• Chinese flute

What was the advantage of reinstating the civil service exam?

• made the government smaller

• allowed a few noble families to rule

• allowed people to elect their ruler

• made the government stable