Chinese+Civil+Service+Exam

=Chinese Civil Service Exam=

Notes
 * Competitive Exam
 * Good score=Good gov't job
 * Provided stability to China for 2,000 years
 * Social Mobility (Move from being a Peasant to Gentry if you did well on exam)
 * Influenced other countries in Asia and Europe
 * Helped create the civil service exam in other countries
 * Emperors realized they needed bureaucrats (gov't workers) to rule China
 * If you did good o nthe exam, you were known as a buraucrat
 * It began around the sixth century
 * Were tested on the sixstudies- music, archery, horsemanship, arithmetic, writing, and knowledge of the rituals and ceremonies of both private and public life
 * Between 200bce-200ce the curriculum expanded to the five studies- military stragities, civil law, taxation, agriculture, geography including confucian classics

__Sources__
 * http://www.csupomona.edu/~plin/ls201/confucian3.html
 * http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/112424/Chinese-civil-service