Amsco AP World History 1.1 questions with answers graded A+

Amsco AP World History 1.1Song Dynasty - correct answers Replaced the Tang in 960 and ruled for three centuries with a prosperous reign under which the arts flourished. Bureaucracy - correct answers China's strength was partially the result of its imperial bureaucracy through which elected officials carried out the empire's policies. Metiocracy and the Civil Service Exam - correct answers One of the Song Dynasties' great achievements was the expansion of educational opportunities as someone who scored well on the Civil Service Exam could get a good job in the bureaucracy. This Chinese bureaucracy was known as metiocracy. Negative of Metiocracy - correct answers It grew so large that by the end of the Song Dynasty, the bureaucracy was a weakness as the cost of running the government had grown extremely high. Grand Canal - correct answers After being built by the Sui Dynasty, the Song Dynasty expanded the canal to over 30,000 miles which allowed China to become the most populous trading center in the world. Gunpowder - correct answers Though gunpowder had been invented in earlier dynasties, the Song Dynasty made the first guns, which later spread to the rest of Eurasia along the Silk Roads. Champa Rice - correct answers a fast-ripening and drought-resistant strain of rice from the Champa Kingdom in present-day Vietnam that greatly expanded agricultural production in China allowing for two harvests a year in some cases. This in combination with new agricultural techniques allowed for rapid population growth. Manufacturing and Trade - correct answers Industrial production soured thanks to the discovery of coal which enabled greater production of cast iron. After it was learned how to take carbon out of iron to make steel, steel was used to reinforce structures and make items or tools like agricultural equipment. Proto-industrialization - correct answers When rural workers make more goods than they can sell. This relied on home-based or community-based production using simple equipment, unlike industrialization. Artisians - correct answers Skilled craftworkers that produced steel and other products in widely dispersed smelting facilities under the supervision of the imperial government. Taxes - correct answers The Song also promoted the growth of the commercial economy by using taxes to pay people for labor to build public projects rather than using forced labor. Tributes - correct answers The tributary system was another income source for the government which had an arrangement where other states such as Japan, Korea, and Vietnam would pay or provide goods to the Chinese emperor which helped cement China's economic and political power. Kowtow - correct answers A former Chinese custom of touching the ground with the forehead as a sign of respect or submission. It was done when representatives from tributary states came to visit the Chinese emperor. Scholar Gentry - correct answers The bureaucratic expansion created this entirely new social class which soon outnumbered the aristocracy comprised of landowners. This class was educated in Confucian philosophy and became the most influential social class in China. Lower Social Classes in the Song - correct answers Following the aristocrats and scholar gentry came farmers, artisans, and merchants who were viewed lower because they didn't create anything. The Song government provided aid to the poor and established public hospitals. Foot Binding - correct answers A practice demonstrating how patriarchal China was, the feet of young girls would often be wrapped so tightly that the bones did not grow naturally and were broken to seem small. This was done as it started in aristocratic families and parents wanted their children to seem as though they were from a wealthier family. Woodblock Printing - correct answers The Chinese invented both papers and were the first to invent printing using woodblocks. This allowed for mass production of news and booklets such as those that were distributed to rice-growing regions on how to farm efficiently. Reading and Poetry - correct answers Confucian scholars consumed and wrote literature at tremendous rates with the development of paper and printing allowing for a large availability of books.