SSC MTS EXAM

SSC

WORLD HISTORY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The system of assessing who the best candidates were for Chinese Imperial government positions.
A
Civil-Service Exam
B
Mandate of Heaven
C
Earth & Water
D
Mahajanapada
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The imperial examination (Chinese: ; pinyin: kējǔ; lit. “subject recommendation") was a civil-service examination system in Imperial China administered for the purpose of selecting candidates for the state bureaucracy.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Emperor must decide which group-Foreigners, the wealthy (called Aristocrats), or Scholars-he will appoint to help him govern. You must try to convince one of the Emperor’s Chancellors that the Scholars are the best choice to be government officials.

Detailed explanation-3: -The broad purpose of the civil service examinations was to select a pool of viable candidates who were all trained in the same Confucian classics to be appointed as imperial officials at various locations and positions.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Qing dynasty, much like previous dynasties, used an “official rank” system (; pǐn). This system had nine numbered ranks, each subdivided into upper and lower levels, in addition to the lowest “unranked” rank: from upper first pin (), to lower ninth pin (), to the unranked (), for a total of 19 ranks.

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