The Han Emperors and the Silk Road (1)

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1	In Chinese history, the dynastic cycle represents a continual process of?:
		strength and prosperity.
		marriage and divorce.
		death and rebirth.
		corruption and decline.


2	Under the Han dynasty, China?:
		set up a bureaucratic system of government.
		sent out armies to conquer the Roman Empire.
		forbade all trade with other lands.
		outlawed the teachings of Confucius.


3	Goods traveled from China to Greece and Rome in the West on the Silk Road by?:
		sea around the coast of India.
		land across central Asia.
		land across northeastern China.
		water along the Yangtze River.


4	The Chinese believed a ruler kept the Mandate of Heaven by?:
		abolishing ancestor worship.
		ending slavery.
		conquering new lands.
		governing wisely.


5	During the Han dynasty, the Chinese invented?:
		paper.
		drama.
		bronze.
		the arch.


6	Candidates for the Chinese civil service needed a thorough knowledge of?:
		the Confucian classics.
		the teachings of Buddha.
		science and mathematics.
		world geography.


7	Han rulers encouraged education in order to?:
		increase the number of Chinese inventions.
		improve the life of the common people.
		train government officials.
		spread Buddhist ideas.


8	The greatest problem faced by the later Han emperors was?:
		peasant upheavals.
		foreign invasion.
		succession crises.
		urban poverty.


9	the Great Silk Road reached from China to?:
		India.
		Syria and Asia Minor.
		Mongolia.
		Persia.


10	The han era is considered a golden age in China for all of the following reasons EXCEPT?:
		the revival of learning.
		the defeat of the barbarians.
		the development of trade.
		the influence of Confucius' ideas.