FREE WORLD HISTORY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT CHINA

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FREE WORLD HISTORY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT CHINA

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Question 1: What are the 7 P's?

Answer:

China should be credited for creating the 7 "p's": poetry, painting, porcelain, printing, paper money, compass, gunpowder (the last two don't begin with "p" but the 2nd syllable does).

Question 2: When did Confucius live?

Answer:

Confucius lived about 500 BC

Question 3: Why was Confucius important?

Answer:

He taught family and government roles/order. His work, the Analects, was collated with other religious documents. Exams based on Confucian teaching to obtain government positions began in the Han dynasty.

Question 4: Where did China do their trading?

Answer:

China traded along the Silk Road and across the Indian Ocean.

Question 5: Were merchants accepted in Chinese culture? Why or why not?

Answer:

China's desire for commerce meant that, in practice, merchants were more accepted.

Question 6: What is the average person's form of Buddhism?

Answer:

Mahayana Buddhism

Question 7: When did Sinification happen?

Answer:

before the 1200s

Question 8: How were provincial and district officials selected?

Answer:

Provincial and district officials were appointed and of course played a role in governing China.

Question 9: Who conquered the Song dynasty in 1279?

Answer:

The Mongols conquered the Song in 1279.

Question 10: Whose leader is the Dalai Lama?

Answer:

Tibetan Buddhism is quite different and is the smallest percentage. Its leader is the Dalai Lama.

Question 11: What is Mahayana Buddhism and where was it found more?

Answer:

Mahayana Buddhism is a larger entity. There are more opportunities for the average person and is found more in E Asia.Question 12: By what dynasty did most of the bureaucrats earn their positions by taking an exam? What exam?

Answer:

By the time of the Song dynasty 900s-1200s, the majority of bureaucrats had passed the Confucian exams, but some still obtained their positions due to inheritance or nepotism.

Question 13: What was the ORIGINAL form of Buddhism?

Answer:

Theravada Buddhism is the original form that began in S Asia. It is stricter and found more in S and SE Asia.

Question 14: What increased harvests greatly?

Answer:

Champa rice from Vietnam greatly increased harvests.Question 15: What are some of the most distinct characteristics that mark China's development of the government.

Answer:

Governments develop and maintain power with competent leaders, strong military, cooperative neighbors, thriving economy, and cultural unity.

Question 16: Confucian traditions expected WHAT when it came to women?

Answer:

Confucian traditions of both respect for and expected deference from women existed alongside female foot binding. The system was definitely patriarchal but often there was some mitigation.

Question 17: Which dynasty emphasized the military?

Answer:

The military was emphasized more during the Tang dynasty.

Question 18: What is "China" another word for?

Answer:

Textiles and porcelains (note china is another word for high quality porcelain) were created for export.

Question 19: What is another name for Mahayana Buddhism?

Answer:

This would be called Zen with a focus on meditation.Question 20: What did the influence of Neo-Confucianism and Buddhism do in East Asia?

Answer:

Influence of Neo-Confucianism and Buddhism in East Asia: restored more traditional Confucian ideas but acknowledged the existence of Daoism and Buddhism.

Question 21: What innovation helped to connect the north and south in China?

Answer:

Transportation innovations, like the Grand Canal expansion, aided economic growth, connecting north and south.

Question 22: What is Sinification?

Answer:

Chinese literary and scholarly traditions spread to Heian Japan, Vietnam, and Korea. This was called Sinification and happened mostly before the 1200s.

Question 23: What was a Chinese emperor's power restrained by?

Answer:

could be restrained by filial piety and the mandate of heaven (dynastic cycle). Some didn't care about governing.

Question 24: What is Pure Land Buddhism?

Answer:

Pure Land Buddhism believes in a future life in heaven somewhat like western religions.

Question 25: What is the Mandate of Heaven?

Answer:

The mandate of heaven was not a personal power but the way the universe worked

Question 26: What form of Buddhism believes in a future life in heaven?

Answer:

Pure Land Buddhism

Question 27: What did steel and iron production do?

Answer:

"Iron and steel of this period were used to mass-produce ploughs, hammers, needles, pins, nails for ships, musical cymbals, chains for suspension bridges, Buddhist statues, and other routine items for an indigenous mass market."