Chapter

7, Part 2 7) Who killed his 2 brothers and all 10 of

China Builds An Empire his brothers sons to become the ruler of
Key Version A the Tang Dynasty?
a) Buddha
1) What is the key version? b) Confucius
a) A c) Liu Bang
b) B d) Kublai Khan
e) Taizong
2) What dynasty reunified China after the
fall of the Han Dynasty? 8) In 690 C.E., who was the empress of the
a) Qin Tang Dynasty that ruled until she was
b) Song more than 80 years old?
c) Sui a) Wu Han
d) Tang b) Wu Khan
e) Zhou c) Wu Tang
d) Wu Yu
3) In 581 C.E., who took power by killing e) Wu Zhao
his grandson and 59 royal princes?
a) Confucius 9) What was the greatest achievement of
b) Liu Bang the Tang Dynasty empress?
c) Siddhartha Gautama a) Conqueror Africa
d) Shi Huangdi b) Conqueror Europe
e) Yang Jian c) Conqueror Japan
d) Conqueror Korea
4) The first emperor of the Sui Dynasty e) Conqueror Mongolia
became known by what name?
a) Buddha 10) What is a government that is divided
b) Confucius into departments?
c) Genghis Khan a) Bureaucracy
d) Kublai Khan b) Maritime
e) Wendi c) Nomad
d) Porcelain
5) What linked the Yellow and Yangtze e) Tribute
Rivers?
a) Ganges River 11) During the Tang and Song Dynasties
b) Grand Canal what did people have to do to get
c) Indus River government jobs?
d) Mediterranean Sea a) Be born into nobility
e) Nile River b) Grow the most rice
c) Pay money to the government
6) The Sui Dynasty ruled for how many d) Pass an exam
years? e) Serve in the military
a) 13
b) 37
c) 53
d) 135
e) 300

 12) Approximately, how many years did the 18) The person that united the Mongol
Song Dynasty rule China? (Estimate to tribes later changed his name to what?
the nearest hundreds) a) Buddha
a) About 100 years b) Confucius
b) About 200 years c) Genghis Khan
c) About 300 years d) Hongwu
d) About 400 years e) Yongle
e) About 500 years
19) What was Kublai Khans relationship to
13) At around 1,00 C.E., what helped Genghis Khan?
farmers grow more food? a) Brother
a) Magnetic compass b) Cousin
b) Mechanical clock c) Grandson
c) New type of rice d) Nephew
d) Porcelain e) Uncle
e) Wood-block printing
20) In 1260 C.E., what dynasty controlled
14) With a surplus of food fewer people had southern China?
to be farmers, and more people became a) Han
what? b) Ming
a) Merchants c) Qing
b) Nomads d) Song
c) Scholar-officials e) Zhou
d) Sailors
e) Soldiers 21) What year did the Mongols control all of
China (both northern and southern
15) What were large Chinese ships used to China)?
travel around the world? a) 1206
a) Junk b) 1227
b) Raft c) 1279
c) Titanic d) 1294
d) Trash e) 1403
e) Treasure
22) What was the name of the dynasty of
16) Who united the Mongol tribes? Mongol rule of China?
a) Buddha a) Ming
b) Confucius b) Song
c) Taizong c) Tang
d) Temujin d) Yuan
e) Zheng He e) Zhou

17) What does khan mean? 23) Mongol __________ was when Mongols
a) Great Wall of China controlled all of Central Asia making
b) Forbidden City overland trade and travel safe?
c) Ruler of the Chinese a) Ascendancy
d) Ruler of the Mongols b) Bureaucracy
e) Terra Cotta Warriors c) Imperial
d) Maritime
e) Tribute

 24) Where did Kublai Khan build the 30) In 1644, a group of people from what
capital? area of northeast China defeated the
a) Beijing Ming to start the Qing Dynasty?
b) Hong Kong a) Beijing
c) Shanghai b) Grand Canal
d) Xian c) Manchuria
e) Wuhan d) Shanghai
e) Xian
25) When Kublai Khan ruled China who got
the important government jobs? 31) Who had the least power in the imperial
a) Confucian scholars state? (DO NOW 01/17/2017)
b) Members of the previous dynasty a) The bureaucracy
c) Merchants b) The chief advisors
d) Mongols or trusted foreigners c) Local governments
e) People that did the best on the exam d) The emperor

26) Who led the army that overthrew the 32) What was one advantage of having civil
Mongols, and started the Ming Dynasty? servants rather than appointing nobles
a) Genghis Khan to fill government positions? (DO NOW
b) Kublai Khan 01/17/2017)
c) Taizong a) Nobles demanded too much pay.
d) Yang Jian b) Nobles were unfriendly to the
e) Zhu Yuanzhang emperor.
c) Not all nobles were skilled or
27) The person that started the Ming capable.
Dynasty later changed his name to d) There were not enough nobles to fill
what? the positions.
a) Genghis Khan
b) Hongwu 33) In the Tang and Song dynasties the new
c) Kublai Khan gentry gained social status through (DO
d) Yang Jian NOW 01/17/2017)
e) Yongle a) Noble birth
b) Employment
28) What did NOT help the Ming Dynasty c) Trade and commerce
gain support from Chinese people? d) Land ownership
a) Brought back the state exam
b) Encouraged Confucianism 34) Why is porcelain often called china?
c) Gave land to the poor farmers (DO NOW 01/18/2017)
d) Lowered taxes a) China was the only manufacturer of
e) People were arrested for treason and porcelain for centuries.
executed b) Its main ingredient is a clay called
china.
29) Who ordered for the Forbidden City to c) China is the Chinese name for
be built? porcelain.
a) Buddha d) China refers to how delicate and
b) Confucius fragile it is.
c) Genghis Khan
d) Kublai Khan
e) Yongle

 35) Why was the development of explosive 39) According to the map, what conclusion
powder historically important? (DO can be drawn about China in the time of
NOW 01/18/2017) Zheng He? (DO NOW 01/19/2017)
a) Its use changed the nature of a) The Chinese rarely went far from
warfare. their own region.
b) It was the reason that the Mongols b) For the Chinese sailors, navigation
were able to invade China. was still a mystery.
c) Chinese exportation of the powder c) Chinese sailors needed to stay within
became a major business. sight of the coast.
d) It is used in fireworks. d) Chinas advanced technology let
sailors undertake long voyages.
36) Which event or trend could be
considered the result of the magnetic 40) Why was Zheng He sent on the voyages
compass? (DO NOW 01/18/2017) shown on the map? (DO NOW
a) The fall of the feudal system 01/19/2017)
b) The discovery of America a) To discover a faster route to Europe
c) The conquest of Korea by China b) To explore new lands and gain more
d) The construction of larger and more tribute-paying states
powerful ships c) To identify potentially hostile
regions
37) Which of the following 20th century d) To set up colonies that would ease
inventions might be considered the overcrowding in China
comparable in its effect to the
development of printing technology?
(DO NOW 01/19/2017)
a) Atomic bomb
b) Antibiotics
c) The Internet
d) Space shuttle

38) What conclusion might be drawn based
on the chart? (DO NOW 01/19/2017)
a) Most of the products first invented
by the Chinese were later invented
independently by the Europeans.
b) Under the isolationist policy of Ming
China, most Chinese technologies
were kept secret.
c) Chinese innovations were mostly
concerned with increasing food
production.
d) During the Tang and Sung dynasties,
Chinese ingenuity reached a peak.