1. The role of the Confucian bureaucracy in the earliest years of the Ming period was
a. Maintance of the army
b. Oversight of foreign policy
c. Regulation of overseas commerce
d. Limited to court ceremonies and regulation of civil service examination
2. A key difference between western European voyages of exploration and those carried out by china during the 15th century was that
a. European explorers had the benefit of financial support from their governments
b. Confucian philosophy supported the idea of trade and exploration as virtuous activities
c. Asia was rich and Europe relatively poor
d. Europeans were ahead in terms of navigational shipbuilding technology by the early 15th century.
3. As a result of the climatic changes during the early 14th Century
a. The Thames river in England flooded
b. Europeans gave up their earlier explorations of the Atlantic
c. Danish colonies in Iceland were abandoned
d. State building in eastern Europe ended