Exam 2: The Middle Kingdom: China to 1280

Compared to Legalists, Daoists would prefer a(n) ________ ruler.

The periods of Restoration in Chinese history are best characterized as ________.

Which of these dominated Chinese bureaucracy beginning in the Zhou period?

The author of the Analects was ________.

Like the examination reforms of the same period, administrative reforms of Wang Anshi had the goal of ________.

To whom are the questions of the oracle bones addressed?

-Looking at Map 2.4, by the time of Shi Huangdi's accession in 221, the Qin ________.

Relative to the Qin dynasty, the Han dynasty represented ________.

-Looking at the Tarim Basin Mummy, historians could NOT tell us much about which of these areas?

The fengche is an example of the ________ in early imperial China.

Yangshao culture is an example of ________ culture.

Qin Shi Huangdi is notable as the first Chinese ________.

Xuanzang is most associated with the development of ________ in China.

As in Mesopotamia and Egypt, the first civilization in China developed ________.

Oracle bones are an important historical source, informing us about both ________ and ________.

Taizong was an expansionist emperor of the ________ dynasty.

Neo-Confucianism is best seen as a ________ early Confucianism.

The Zhou era marks a decline in ________ for women in Chinese culture.

In the classic conception of the dynastic cycle, rulers may be justifiably overthrown if they ________.

The Tang dynasty was a high point in China's ________.