Exam 3: China in Antiquity

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A) Legalism.
B) Doaism.
C) Zhouism.
D) Confucianism.
E) Qin Shi Huangdi.

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A) To the victor go the spoils.
B) A virtuous government will sadly but inevitably make its people corrupt.
C) Government depends on the will of the people.
D) Barbarians must not be accepted but crushed by military power.
E) Political democracy is the only form of government.

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A) army turned against the attempt of the emperor's wife to seize power.
B) factionalism and resentment created by Qin Shi Huangdi's policies created internal weaknesses that undermined the dynasty's survival after his death.
C) eunuch system created a new base that resulted in an internal seizure of power.
D) humanitarian nature of Qin Shi Huangdi's policies produced a vulnerable and weakened empire.
E) Yellow River flooded all of South China.

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A) became the philosophy of government under the Qin Dynasty.
B) was first established by Mencius.
C) has the Dao De Jing as its primary document.
D) has the same view of the nature and meaning of life as Confucianism.
E) counseled hard work and determined purposefulness for its followers.

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A) use of ceramics as a sculpture medium, replacing the ivory-casting of the Shang.
B) huge expenditures that were devoted to afterlife preparation for the monarch.
C) continuation of the Shang practices of human sacrifices.
D) freeing of the individual soul under the influence of Doaism.
E) transience of human life.

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A) endured in practice throughout the dynasty's long reign.
B) continued to grow in significance as the dynasty developed.
C) degenerated, in practice, into a fractious arrangement of despotic and exploitive local rulers.
D) reflected the enhancement of the intelligence and morality of the Zhou rulers.
E) in time, developed into a highly centralized structure.

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A) All evidence indicates that the first agricultural villages in China developed only along the Pearl River.
B) Ancient Chinese villages evolved over thousands of years to form the first unified state under the Qin.
C) Chinese topography caused its civilization to develop apart from advancements in other parts of Asia.
D) Nomadic attacks from the north were an ongoing factor in the development of China.
E) Early Chinese literature was didactic and elitist.

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A) permitted all philosophies to compete freely for public acceptance.
B) had a shy, highly religious Buddhist as its first ruler.
C) lasted exactly four hundred years.
D) carried out public book burnings.
E) developed the first direct democracy in human history.

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In the early stages of Chinese civilizat...

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A) Mauryans.
B) Zhou.
C) Qin.
D) Han.
E) Shang.

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