WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY

ANCIENT INDIA

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Under the Han Dynasty, people took a Civil Service Exam. This allowed them to ____
A
go to college
B
buy a house
C
enter the secret service
D
get a good job with the government
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -SOCIAL MOBILITY AND CURRICULAR UNIFORMITY UNDER THE CONFUCIAN SYSTEM. The civil service examination system was an important vehicle of social mobility in imperial China. Even a youth from the poorest family could theoretically join the ranks of the educated elite by succeeding in the examination system.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Chinese civil service system gave the Chinese empire stability for more than 2, 000 years and provided one of the major outlets for social mobility in Chinese society. It later served as a model for the civil service systems that developed in other Asian and Western countries.

Detailed explanation-3: -He created civil-service examinations to test potential government officials on their knowledge of the Confucian classics, so that bureaucrats would be chosen for their intelligence instead of their social connections.

Detailed explanation-4: -Explanation: The officials were chosen by taking the famous Chinese civil service exam. It didn’t usually matter what class you were from, as long as you had the money to take it and the skills to pass, they’d take you in.

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