HISTORY
CIVILIZATIONS OF ASIA
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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By executing officials who did not pledge loyalty to the Emperor
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By using a Civil Service systenm that required government officials to pass difficult civil service exams
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by not allowing commoners to take part on goverment-making sure that only educated and wealthy Chinese were a part of the government
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -During the rule of the Tang dynasty, China was open to the world. Tang military garrisons protected the Silk Road trade routes of Central Asia, encouraging the flow of goods, ideas, and people between China and Western Asia. Through this vast network, Chinese products, such as silk and porcelain, reached Europe.
Detailed explanation-2: -Chinese historians have spent well over a thousand years trying to understand why the Han Dynasty collapsed. Over time they developed three main theories: 1) bad rulers; 2) the influence of empresses and court eunuchs over child emperors too young to rule by themselves; and 3) the Yellow Turban Revolt.
Detailed explanation-3: -With its large population base, the dynasty was able to raise professional and conscripted armies of hundreds of thousands of troops to contend with nomadic powers in dominating Inner Asia and the lucrative trade routes along the Silk Road.
Detailed explanation-4: -The civil service examinations of Imperial China allowed the state to find the best candidates to staff the vast bureaucracy that governed China from the Han Dynasty onwards (206 BCE-220 CE).