Chapter 4

Question 1

All of the following were important inventions/discoveries of the Xia Dynasty EXCEPT

Answer 1

Civil Exams

Question 2

During the Shang Dynasty, kings and diviners used which of the following to divine the
future?

Answer 2

Oracle bones

Question 3

During the Zhou Dynasty, what two philosophical traditions emerged?

Answer 3

Confucianism and Daoism

Question 4

During the Western Zhou Dynasty, what system of political organization did the Zhou kings
use to control the population?

Answer 4

Feudalism

Question 5

During the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, Duke Huan of Qi was able to resolve disputes between
nobles on behalf of the king through his appoint as what?

Answer 5

Hegemon

Question 6

During the Warring States Period, what changed in the hegemon system?

Answer 6

Codes of chivalry
Purpose of warfare
Conduct of warfare

Question 7

During the Warring States Period, how did warfare change?

Answer 7

Rulers introduced large armies composed of mass infantry and cavalry.
Kings militarized their kingdoms’ landscapes.
Rulers created a class of military commanders and specialists

Question 8

What was the name of the great military treatise written by Master Sun?

Answer 8

Art of War

Question 9

The Analects were a record of conversations between what philosopher and his students?

Answer 9

Confucius

Question 10

The mind must be emptied out, calmed, and purified, until desires are absent and a
primordial, natural condition is restored is one of the precepts of which philosophy?

Answer 10

Daoism

Question 11

Which of the following was one of the techniques Daoist philosophers created to achieve the
goal of harmonizing and liberating the spiritual essence?

Answer 11

Yoga
Meditation
Chinese boxing

Question 12

What was a major intellectual tradition that developed during the Warring States Period?

Answer 12

Legalism

Question 13

All of the following were important innovations/discoveries of the Qin Dynasty EXCEPT

Answer 13

Industrialization

Question 14

What group of civil servants were at the bottom of the Han Dynasty political system?

Answer 14

County Magistrates

Question 15

During the Han Dynasty, county magistrates and ministry officials handled all of the
following matters EXCEPT

Answer 15

Foreign Relations

Question 16

During the Han Dynasty, ministry officials handled all of the following matters EXCEPT

Answer 16

Public Works

Question 17

What does Filial Piety mean?

Answer 17

Honoring the elders in the family

Question 18

The biggest threats to the settled agricultural population of China came from

Answer 18

Non-Chinese nomadic pastoralists

Question 19

After the Han Dynasty fell, China was divided into what Three Kingdoms?

Answer 19

Wei, Wu, and Han

Question 20

Why did Buddhism spread throughout China?

Answer 20

It met a spiritual need

It appealed to people in different ways.

Question 21

To ensure sufficient grain and labor service, Tang rulers implemented what system?

Answer 21

Equal Fields System

Question 22

As part of the Tang Codes, the severity of the punishment was based on what?

Answer 22

The relative status of the perpetrator and the victim

Question 23

All of the following were important innovations/discoveries of the Song Dynasty EXCEPT

Answer 23

Porcelain

Question 24

What Mongol leader founded the Yuan Dynasty?

Answer 24

Genghis Khan

Question 25

During the Yayoi Period in Japan, what new farming techniques were introduced?

Answer 25

Rice-paddy agriculture and dry-field farming