AMSCO 3 2026 CERTIFICATION EVALUATION
TEST PAPER QUESTIONS SOLUTIONS GRADED
A PLUS
◉ Imperial Bureaucracy.
Answer: Division of an empire into organized provinces to make it
easier to control
◉ Meritocracy.
Answer: a system in which promotion is based on individual ability
or achievement
◉ Grand Canal.
Answer: The 1,100-mile (1,700-kilometer) waterway linking the
Yellow and the Yangzi Rivers. It was begun in the Han period and
completed during the Sui Empire.
◉ Gunpowder.
Answer: The formula, brought to China in the 400s or 500s, was first
used to make fumigators to keep away insect pests and evil spirits.
In later centuries it was used to make explosives and grenades and
to propel cannonballs, shot, and bullets.
,◉ Champa Rice.
Answer: Quick-maturing rice that can allow two harvests in one
growing season. Originally introduced into Champa from India, it
was later sent to China as a tribute gift by the Champa state (as part
of the tributary system.)
◉ Proto-industrialization.
Answer: Preliminary shift away from agricultural economy in
Europe; workers become full- or part-time producers of textile and
metal products, working at home but in a capitalist system in which
materials, work orders, and ultimate sales depended on urban
merchants; prelude to Industrial Revolution.
◉ Artisans.
Answer: skilled workers who make goods by hand
◉ Scholar-gentry.
Answer: Chinese class created by the marital linkage of the local
land-holding aristocracy with the office-holding shi; superseded shi
as governors of China.
◉ Foot Binding.
Answer: Practice in Chinese society to mutilate women's feet in
order to make them smaller; produced pain and restricted women's
movement; made it easier to confine women to the household.
, ◉ woodblock printing.
Answer: a form of printing in which an entire page is carved into a
block of wood
◉ Buddhism.
Answer: A religion based on the teachings of the Buddha.
◉ Theravada Buddhism.
Answer: Buddhist sect that focuses on the wisdom of the Buddha
◉ Mahayana Buddhism.
Answer: Also known as popular Buddhism, is allows people more
ways to reach enlightenment and boddhisatvas can help you reach
enlightenment.
◉ Tibetan Buddhism.
Answer: makes great use of ritual
◉ Syncretic.
Answer: A religion that combines several traditions
TEST PAPER QUESTIONS SOLUTIONS GRADED
A PLUS
◉ Imperial Bureaucracy.
Answer: Division of an empire into organized provinces to make it
easier to control
◉ Meritocracy.
Answer: a system in which promotion is based on individual ability
or achievement
◉ Grand Canal.
Answer: The 1,100-mile (1,700-kilometer) waterway linking the
Yellow and the Yangzi Rivers. It was begun in the Han period and
completed during the Sui Empire.
◉ Gunpowder.
Answer: The formula, brought to China in the 400s or 500s, was first
used to make fumigators to keep away insect pests and evil spirits.
In later centuries it was used to make explosives and grenades and
to propel cannonballs, shot, and bullets.
,◉ Champa Rice.
Answer: Quick-maturing rice that can allow two harvests in one
growing season. Originally introduced into Champa from India, it
was later sent to China as a tribute gift by the Champa state (as part
of the tributary system.)
◉ Proto-industrialization.
Answer: Preliminary shift away from agricultural economy in
Europe; workers become full- or part-time producers of textile and
metal products, working at home but in a capitalist system in which
materials, work orders, and ultimate sales depended on urban
merchants; prelude to Industrial Revolution.
◉ Artisans.
Answer: skilled workers who make goods by hand
◉ Scholar-gentry.
Answer: Chinese class created by the marital linkage of the local
land-holding aristocracy with the office-holding shi; superseded shi
as governors of China.
◉ Foot Binding.
Answer: Practice in Chinese society to mutilate women's feet in
order to make them smaller; produced pain and restricted women's
movement; made it easier to confine women to the household.
, ◉ woodblock printing.
Answer: a form of printing in which an entire page is carved into a
block of wood
◉ Buddhism.
Answer: A religion based on the teachings of the Buddha.
◉ Theravada Buddhism.
Answer: Buddhist sect that focuses on the wisdom of the Buddha
◉ Mahayana Buddhism.
Answer: Also known as popular Buddhism, is allows people more
ways to reach enlightenment and boddhisatvas can help you reach
enlightenment.
◉ Tibetan Buddhism.
Answer: makes great use of ritual
◉ Syncretic.
Answer: A religion that combines several traditions
