China Unit Review 1 Chapter/ Vocabulary/ Essential Questions/Pregunta escenciales Unidad vocabulario Please define Please copy and answer the questions based on the reading 16 aristocracy 1. What is an imperial government? meritocracy How did imperial dynasties justify Mandate of Heaven their power? bureaucracy warlord 2. Which dynasties reunited China Tang dynasty after the disunity than followed the civil service Han dynasty? How did these examinations Song dynasties reunite China? dynasty Mongols 3. How did the Tang dynasty use civil Kublai Khan service examinations to improve the Ming dynasty bureaucracy? 4. What changes did the Song dynasty implement to create a meritocracy? 17 Urbanization 1. Why did agricultural changes occur typhoons during the Song dynasty? What chain pump were the main agricultural changes? paddies What impact did those changes barge have? currency junk 2. Where was tea grown? What was its original use? In what ways did tea become important in China? 3. Why did economic changes occur during the Song dynasty? What were the main economic changes? What impact did those changes have? 18 lodestone 1. What inventions made exploration paddlewheel boat and travel safer and faster? canal lock Consider inventions that affected segmental arch bridge overseas travel as well as travel on woodblock printing rivers, lakes, canals, and bridges China Unit Review 2 movable type within China. porcelain alchemy 2. Explain how each of these industries inoculate developed within China: paper, vaccine printing, porcelain, and steel. 3. Why was gunpowder such an important invention? 4. Explain how woodblock printing made possible the invention of every- day objects such as playing cards and paper money. 5. How did the Chinese discoveries of inoculation and vaccines help pre- vent diseases? 19 Xuan Zang 1. What did the Tang do to make Buddhism travel along the Silk Road safe? Silk Road What type of cultural exchanges Kublai Khan resulted from the Silk Road during Marco Polo the Tang dynasty? tributaries kowtow 2. How did Buddhism come into Zheng He China? How did it continue to Ming dynasty spread during the Tang dynasty? 3. Why did foreigners and their beliefs become less welcome in China toward the end of the Tang dynasty? 4. How did the Mongols help to encourage overland trade along the Silk Road? What cultural exchanges happened between Europe and China as a result? .